IAM1295- CEO Coaches Leaders to Create a Strategy with Purpose

Richard Medcalf describes himself as “what you get if you were to put a McKinsey consultant, a slightly unorthodox pastor and an entrepreneur into a blender”. He's an executive coach & leadership consultant to some of the top CEOs on the planet and their leadership teams. Richard is bi-national English/French, lives near Paris, and is happily married and the proud father of two.

• CEO Story: Grew up in the UK. Went into strategy consulting and in a large corporation working on the executive level. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the story Richard wanna be telling to his grandchildren, but of helping impressive leaders to make a bigger impact in their organization and the world. That’s why Xquadrant was born.
• Business Service: Working with executive leaders. Four things to work on: 1. Extract yourself from low-level tasks. 2. Think and act more strategically even when there is complexity and ambiguity. 3. How do you get your leadership team to be more cohesive and create more value. 4. Inspiring your organization – grow your influence
• Secret Sauce: Impact Multiplier Method: 1. Constraint to commitment ( is the goal clear and compelling?) 2. Attention (is our attention on strategic things?) 3. Action (do we have the skills needed?) 4. Influence (are we bringing people on that journey?)
• CEO Hack: App Brainfm: it plays computer-generated music that hacks your brainwaves and brings you into a certain zone. Makes you relax and focus.
• CEO Nugget: “Two ways to increase impact, you can go faster or you can change gear, but you can’t change gear when your foot is on the accelerator” How are you going to create space so that you can invest time in changing gear and playing it at a higher level?
• CEO Defined: Taking the ultimate ownership for the success and impact of a business. In terms of its purpose, profit, and its people.

Website: xquadrant.com

Linkedin: richardmedcalf

Twitter: rmedcalf
Offer: Exponential Leadership Series
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Richard Medcalf 00:00

There are two ways to increase impact. You can go faster or you can change gear. But you can't change gear when your foot's on the accelerator. So you do have to slow down to speed up. It's a bit of a cliche, but, when you try to go faster, you just hit the ceiling of complexity and you max out.

Intro 00:26

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Gresham Harkless 00:46

Hello. Hello. Hello. This is Gresh from the I AM CEO Podcast. I have a very special guest on the show today, I have Richard Medcalf of Xquadrant. Richard, it's great to have you on the show.

Richard Medcalf 00:55

Hi, Gresh. Hey. Looking forward to this. Thank you for having me.

Gresham Harkless 00:58

Yes. I'm very excited about having you on as well too and about all the awesome things that you're doing. Before we jump into the interview, I want to read a little bit more about Richard so you can hear about some of those awesome things. Richard describes himself as what you get if you were to put a McKinsey consultant and a slightly unorthodox pastor and an entrepreneur into a blender.

He's an executive coach and leadership consultant to some of the top CEOs on the planet and their leadership teams. Richard is bi-national English and French, lives near Paris and is happily married and proud father of two. Richard, super excited to have you on the show again and about the work that you do. Are you ready to speak to the I AM CEO Community?