Episode 73 – Leading High-Performance Architecture Teams: Amy Levine
Some organizations seem to perform better, create results faster, and the people in those organizations seem to have fun on top if this? But how can that be when you are currently stretched in all directions and don’t know how to get stuff done?
In this episode we are talking with Amy Levine, who is an expert in neuroscience and how it impacts high-performance teams and the leaders (and their leadership style). Science to the rescue!
After a decade leading global productivity for Fortune 100 companies, Amy ventured on her own to help even more high-potential organizations improve performance and profitability. It’s been a fascinating ride.
She partners with leaders and organizations to build high-performing cultures and achieve accelerated growth. With a focus on science-based strategies and proven methodologies, Amy helps clients improve stakeholder collaboration, optimize processes, and drive award-winning results. As a seasoned facilitator and coach, she creates inclusive environments for open dialogue and peer exchange, ensuring effective communication and goal achievement.
In this episode of the podcast we are talking about:
- Amy’s background and her focus in building high-performance teams
- What is the problem for (new) leaders
- The need for strategy, aligned communication, selection of the right people, gamification/”competition”
- Impact of high-performance organization on leadership and outcomes
- Neurotransmitters as potential influence for culture (wow, science!)
- Dopamin – rewards
- Cortisol – stress / fear
- Oxytocin – trust / love / cuddle
- Seratonin – feel good
- How to apply this knowledge to organizations
- Behavior as a leader and questions to ask yourself and your team members for adapting
Amy can be found on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyllevine
Please reach out to us by either sending an email to hello@whatsyourbaseline.com or leaving us a voice message by clicking here.
Additional information
- Amy runs an “Annual Planning Bootcamp” starting on 9/16/24 – reach out to her via DM on LinkedIn with the words “Growth” to get more information
Credits
Music by Jeremy Voltz, www.jeremyvoltzmusic.com
- CP1 (Welcome)
- Love Won’t Let You Down (Interlude 1)
- Metric Offbeat (Interlude 2)
- South Wing (Outro)
Roland Woldt is a well-rounded executive with 25+ years of Business Transformation consulting and software development/system implementation experience, in addition to leadership positions within the German Armed Forces (11 years).
He has worked as Team Lead, Engagement/Program Manager, and Enterprise/Solution Architect for many projects. Within these projects, he was responsible for the full project life cycle, from shaping a solution and selling it, to setting up a methodological approach through design, implementation, and testing, up to the rollout of solutions.
In addition to this, Roland has managed consulting offerings during their lifecycle from the definition, delivery to update, and had revenue responsibility for them.
Roland has had many roles: VP of Global Consulting at iGrafx, Head of Software AG’s Global Process Mining CoE, Director in KPMG’s Advisory (running the EA offering for the US firm), and other leadership positions at Software AG/IDS Scheer and Accenture. Before that, he served as an active-duty and reserve officer in the German Armed Forces.
