The Connected Leader Quotes

“Look, knowing is overrated. When we assume we know something, we don’t venture any further, dig deeper, or ask questions. When we’re married to ‘knowing,’ we overlook curiosity. Curiosity is where it’s at!”
― Karen Joy Hardwick, The Connected Leader: 7 Strategies to Empower Your True Self and Inspire Others

“I learned this truth; we cannot simultaneously be our best selves and avoid pissing off people. When we align our actions with the divine, good, orderly direction we seek, some folks will not like that we are changing the dance steps.”
― Karen Joy Hardwick, The Connected Leader: 7 Strategies to Empower Your True Self and Inspire Others

“By stepping away from accountability, we keep the unhealthy patterns alive”
― Karen Joy Hardwick, The Connected Leader: 7 Strategies to Empower Your True Self and Inspire Others

“Empathy needs boundaries”
― Karen Joy Hardwick, The Connected Leader: 7 Strategies to Empower Your True Self and Inspire Others

“Empathy requires bravery; it scoffs at anything less”
― Karen Joy Hardwick, The Connected Leader: 7 Strategies to Empower Your True Self and Inspire Others

“Listening to others can be hard. It is even harder if we don’t learn to listen to ourselves”
― Karen Joy Hardwick, The Connected Leader: 7 Strategies to Empower Your True Self and Inspire Others

“If you don’t feel safe, you aren’t.”
― Karen Joy Hardwick, The Connected Leader: 7 Strategies to Empower Your True Self and Inspire Others

“Today is a perfect day for the high dive, to trust I have something to say, and to move beyond fear to live and lead with connection.”
― Karen Joy Hardwick, The Connected Leader: 7 Strategies to Empower Your True Self and Inspire Others

“Being a Connected Leader transforms loved ones into soul mates, families into havens, groups into cohesive teams, and workplaces into gateways that usher us and those we serve into possibility.”
― Karen Joy Hardwick, The Connected Leader: 7 Strategies to Empower Your True Self and Inspire Others

“There is One from whom our being and purpose flow, and that we are in relationship with this One. Some people call this God, others Love, Buddha, or a Higher Power; whatever the name, it restores us to sanity.”
― Karen Joy Hardwick, The Connected Leader: 7 Strategies to Empower Your True Self and Inspire Others

“Everything that matters rests on the realization that this life is an inside job”
― Karen Joy Hardwick, The Connected Leader: 7 Strategies to Empower Your True Self and Inspire Others

“Leaders are no longer expected to just enhance the bottom line; many are now being given the sacred duty of spiritually awakening, emotionally healing, and courageously leading from a platform of inclusion, wholeness, and connection.”
― Karen Joy Hardwick, The Connected Leader: 7 Strategies to Empower Your True Self and Inspire Others

“Connection gives us the grace and grit to unleash our potential and endure the challenge of our daily mess.”
― Karen Joy Hardwick, The Connected Leader: 7 Strategies to Empower Your True Self and Inspire Others

“We cannot connect with anyone in sustainable, healthy ways unless we connect with ourselves in meaningful, honest ways.”
― Karen Joy Hardwick, The Connected Leader: 7 Strategies to Empower Your True Self and Inspire Others

“We are a culture that confuses busyness with purpose. Social media with connection. Instagram scrolling with therapy and spiritual direction. Wealth with wellbeing. And self-obsession with vulnerability.”
― Karen Joy Hardwick, The Connected Leader: 7 Strategies to Empower Your True Self and Inspire Others