"Focus on culture and stay rooted there. When your culture is strong, you can weather any storm!”
Megan Alarid is an expert in the world of business coaching and leadership development, boasting over 700 days in the session room. Megan is trained by some of the best business minds like Verne Harnish and Pat Lencioni.
Her experience and credentials are a testament to her mastery in guiding CEOs, Founders, and their Leadership Teams towards success. But Megan offers more than just certifications; her methodology, TRUE Organizational Health, has become a game-changer for businesses aiming for sustainable, scalable growth while maintaining a team feel.
With over 25 years in the People Business, Megan has a profound understanding of the unique challenges and aspirations that CEOs and their teams face.
Having successfully coached more than 55 teams to their true potential, her approach is focused on dispelling the chaos that can stifle progress, ensuring that leadership teams are equipped to scale their ventures seamlessly and efficiently.
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We are thrilled to have you join us today, welcome to ValiantCEO Magazine’s exclusive interview! Let’s start off with a little introduction. Tell our readers a bit about yourself and your company.
Megan Alarid: I am a Business Coach and Consultant that focuses on Building Healthy Profits. I founded Heightened Leaders to help Business Owners and Business Leaders build healthy organizations so they can grow healthy profits. I’ve been coaching for nearly eight years.
Can you share a time when your business faced a significant challenge? How did you navigate through it?
Megan Alarid: I coach Business Leaders and Business Owners who have to navigate challenging times. When COVID hit, that was one of the most challenging times for any business. Having to immediately make decisions with little data or precedent and having to distribute their workforce into remote work situations.
The one way that helped navigate this challenge was being rooted in purpose and culture. The culture of an organization can truly be the road map to success. A positive winning culture can create positive winning decisions.
How has a failure or apparent failure set you up for later success?
Megan Alarid: I believe you either WIN or your learn. If you take a failure and learn from it, it was worth it!
People who fail tried! When you analyze the failure and learn from it, you can then catapult your self and your team to success.
How do you build a resilient team? What qualities do you look for in your team members?
Megan Alarid: Our Core Values are “Seek Mastery Always, Go Give, Do the Right Thing and Live and Love.” While the concept “Ideal Team Player” by Patrick Lencioni is key to the hiring process.
Being Humble, Hungry and Smart. I understand that there are a set of behaviors those Ideal Team Players have that will make my business successful. We interview, review, and exit team members based on those behaviors.
How do you maintain your personal resilience during tough times?
Megan Alarid: I maintain my personal resilience with exercise, routine, and gratitude!
What strategies do you use to manage stress and maintain focus during a crisis?
Megan Alarid: I have always found that finding the lesson or the good in any situation can ground you. This is true during the toughest of times.
I personally have survived poverty, a wicked car crash and I was in NYC on 9/11. I know tragedy and chaos.
However, when you can find the positive purpose in every situation, you can understand that things happen for you and not to you.
How do you communicate with your team during a crisis?
Megan Alarid: Often! During a time of crisis of chaos, frequent and transparent communication is key!
What advice would you give to other CEOs on building resilience in their organizations?
Megan Alarid: Focus on culture and stay rooted there. When your culture is strong, you can weather any storm!
How do you prepare your business for potential future crises?
Megan Alarid: I have, and encourage my coaching clients, to maintain data on their business and their customers business. It is key to keep an eye out on what will likely affect you in the market. Never turn a blind eye!
What’s the most important lesson you’ve learned about leadership in times of crisis?
Megan Alarid: Don’t lose sight of the people and the culture. Tough decisions have to be made in crisis. With a team who is aware, and who believes in your mission, they will help you through the tough times.
Jed Morley, VIP Contributor to ValiantCEO and the host of this interview would like to thank Megan Alarid for taking the time to do this interview and share her knowledge and experience with our readers.
If you would like to get in touch with Megan Alarid or her company, you can do it through her – Linkedin Page
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