Developing Your Mindset as a Leader

What does it take to lead in today’s ever-evolving world, and how much of that is shaped by who you are versus where you are?

In this episode of The People Dividend, host Mike Horne sits down with Ross Blankenship, consulting psychologist and leadership coach, to explore the deeper layers of leadership, identity, and career evolution. Drawing from his books Everyday Leadership and Assessing CEOs and Senior Leaders, Ross unpacks why a humanistic approach is essential for effective leadership—and how context can be just as influential as character. They also delve into the growing role of AI in executive assessment and what that means for the future of coaching and development at the top.

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Key Points:

• Career transitions are deeply tied to identity shifts and successful leaders must navigate both.
• AI is transforming executive assessment, offering new insights but also raising ethical considerations.
• Personal growth in leadership begins with self-reflection and confronting our own assumptions.

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One of the things that assessment does is it can add a little bit of change to the system. All learning is just becoming comfortable with being uncomfortable. - Ross Blankenship 

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The more work I do, especially with people in their careers and like adult learning, the more I think that all learning is really just becoming comfortable with being uncomfortable. - Ross Blankenship 

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I think it's important to take a psychological perspective on assessment because one of the things that AI really misses is the reliability piece. - Ross Blankenship