Revolutionary changes lead to revolutionary solutions. While we stand at the juncture of evolved, evolving, and outdated leadership philosophies, we’re all determined to find out: what is the right way to go about in a leadership role currently? What does it take to express transformational female leadership in today’s times? Tune in to this important episode of Women’s Leadership Success podcast to find out. What is transformational female leadership and why is it so relevant today? What are some important things female leaders need to develop to become transformational leaders? The steps to becoming a transformational leader What is meant by a disruption? How do you see the opportunities in disruptions? How are businesses changing in these ‘new normal’ times?   In this episode of Women’s Leadership Success, Sabrina Braham interviews Faisal Hoque, author of Lift – Fostering the Leader in You Amid Revolutionary Global Change, a powerful book on individual and organizational leadership today. His book explores the intersection of transformational leadership, systemic thinking, and experiential learning?all required to survive the disruptions due to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, and misinformation trends. Today’s episode has Faisal get into the crux of it and explain how it all began. Faisal Hoque - #1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller of LIFT   Faisal Hoque’s Interview on Empathy for Transformational Female Leadership ( and Men Too) Faisal Hoque is the founder of SHADOKA, NextChapter, and other companies focusing on enabling sustainable and transformational changes. Throughout his career, he has developed over 20 commercial business and technology platforms and worked with public and private sector giants such as the US Department of Defense, GE, MasterCard, American Express, Northrop Grumman, CACI, PepsiCo, IBM, Home Depot, Gartner, and JPMorgan Chase. He is a 3 times winning Founder and CEO of Deloitte Technology Fast 50 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ awards. He has authored several books on leadership, innovation, mindfulness, resilience, organizational transformation, and entrepreneurship, including the #1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller Lift – Fostering the Leader in You Amid Revolutionary Global Change, and Everything Connects – How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability. His work has appeared in Fast Company, Business Insider, The Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, Fox, CBS, Financial Times, Mergers & Acquisitions, Forbes, and Leadership Excellence, among others.     Transformational Female Leadership in Times of Disruption:  Show Notes Reflecting on the events that happened during the pandemic, including his son’s rare blood cancer, and writing about it in his book, Lift [2:29-4:50] What does Faisal mean by ‘disruption’? [5:05-6:29] 3 questions to help you get unstuck [10:53-13:12] Becoming a transformational leader [13:20-18:09] How can you be more empathetic? [18:15-19:54] What is the difference between mindfulness and meditation? [20:33-23:04] The importance of being present in the moment to be empathetic [23:33-24:28] Five questions you can ask yourself to assess your empathy levels [25:19-30:00] What is design thinking? What does empathy have to do with it? [30:07-31:25] How accessible are leadership coaches to an average human? How can experiential learning help in the same? [31:26-36:12] Why must you be your own coach to move to the top levels? [36:44-38:35] How can you become a futurist? How does that help? [39:16-44:06] Life yourself to lift others, express transformational female leadership, and practice experiential learning [44:27-50:08] We hope that you have learned something useful from our transformational female leadership epi...