In this episode of OutBüro Voices featuring LGBTQ professionals, entrepreneurs, and community leaders from around the world, host Dennis Velco chats with Phil Bohlender is an author, LGBT #entrepreneur, and a unique thinker on #leadership.

2:00 Phil's Came Professionally Out in 1982 #LGBTQ+
5:50 Book description - 7 Essential Traits of Leaders (Buy on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2O7vV0M)
7:00 Book description - 7 Essential Traits of Coaches (Buy on Amazon: https://amzn.to/31TFuIR)
15:00 Leadership in parenting, your relationships and all aspects of your everyday life
19:20 Impact of COVID on Phil's business and activities
21:00 Changing what we do and how we do it due to COVID
23:00 Leadership of politicians through a COVID lense - balancing people and profit
25:45 COVID is a massive opportunity to create and adapt personally and as a business
27:00 Analysing your competitors - do a SWOT - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
29:20 Adapting your business marketing due to COVID predominantly online
33:15 Phil serves on TEDx San Antonio discusses affects on this year's plan events due to COVID
36:00 Change can become normalized if embraced
38:40 Reflecting on history can inspire innovation future
41:15 Sgt Harry Tucker's Leadership Lesson - Take responsibility, action, and communicate.
45:00 Knowing your customers and taking one for the team
56:30 Leadership and intuition

We discuss how leadership activities happen in all areas of your life from personal interactions with a spouse/life partner, parenting, family relations, and even friendships. Improving leadership skills is for all ages from teens in school, young adults in college and starting there careers, and adults for personal and professional growth. Maybe you want to be a leader in a non-profit or step up influence at work. The skills Phil teaches are easy to grasp and put to practical use. For very early in his professional career, Phil has been out as a gay professional. He is an LGBT #author, entrepreneur, #coach, #consultant, and #speaker.

Every day is a good day to focus on developing your #leadershipskills. However as we are in unprecedented recent times with the global COVID pandemic, if you choose, it is a fabulous time to reflect on your personal, professional, career, and/or entrepreneur ambitions through honing your leadership skills. We discuss the opportunity to adapt your business or launch a startup based on the new environmental conditions that COVID-19 has brought about. Change, adapt and grow or be like past iconic brands who didn't and are no longer around. Be the new startup disruptor seizing new opportunities.

To connect with Phil find him on OutBüro here. https://www.outburo.com/profile/philbohlender/

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