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Drake Lewis's MindScan journey began at 19, at a time marked by upheaval and a deep sense of being lost. A decade later, a reconnection with the MindScan™ Assessment and the guidance of ProAdvisorCoach Josh Greco helped Drake find the clarity he needed to navigate his path and bring a greater focus to his life. MINDSCAN PROFILE INTERVIEW: DRAKE LEWIS Tell us a bit about where you were in your life when you first took the ProAdvisor MindScan™ Assessment. Just a little backstory… My parents split when I was 10, and things got pretty rough after that. My dad came back into the picture about five months later, but I really only saw hime every other weekend.  I was being bullied in school, and generally just unhappy with life. When I was 15, I moved in with my dad and stepmom, who had just moved back to Charleston. That first semester of 10th grade was super awesome. It was completely different from anything I had experienced in life until then—I made friends, I wasn't bullied. It w...

Unlocking Leadership Potential Through Decades of Corporate Insight Linda Haury is an accomplished executive coach with more than 30 years of senior marketing leadership experience across corporate America. She has led global marketing operations for Fortune 500 technology companies, guiding organizations through start-up phases, periods of rapid growth, and complex acquisitions. Linda brings deep expertise in business development, M&A integration, performance analytics, and team transformation—consistently driving strategic and operational excellence. Known for her visionary leadership and strong communication skills, she builds high-performing teams and advises senior executives on strategic planning, market positioning, and organizational alignment. Can you tell us a little about your professional background? I bring over 30 years of executive-level marketing leadership in corporate America, with a focus on global marketing operations in Fortune 500 companies and fast-growing te...

Opposition is healthy in an organization, it shows the employees their thoughts are important to the success of the firm’s goals. How you address the opposition is the key.  Do you address it with thoughtful logical points? Or do you thrust your decisions upon them? Understanding your key employees and their ideas, thinking, and goals will help you understand how to turn their opposition into support or, at a minimum, tacit agreement. There are a lot of different responses employees can have to a new CEO or their ideas. A CEO must be aware of the positions people will take, especially within their leadership group.  Being aware and responding appropriately will define the success of one's leadership. To do this, we need take a look at these challenging employee response types, and understand the differences between them. First, we'll define employees that present themselves as supporting the CEO. Blind Support – These are people who seem to support your ideas and they appear ...

How do you know if you have the right team?  What are the strengths and weaknesses of each team member?  How do your team members think?   These are some of the things you must evaluate as you build your team or evaluate the team you inherit.   Of course, it is easier to build a team because you can help them grow into their position and add team members to balance the leadership group. When you are building a business, you have the opportunity to evaluate your team members as they grow and change but also evaluate yourself as you grow and change.  Leaders often forget that they grow and change and forget to evaluate themselves. Being hired as a CEO brings its own challenges to team development. You are inheriting a team with its own strengths and weaknesses.  You do not know if the team was built around the strengths, weaknesses and thinking process of the former CEO (it makes a big difference if the CEO was successful or not).  It will be c...

Now that we've examined the crucial distinction between career and self , and the foundational role of self-awareness in navigating professional challenges , we've created a "Self" Reading List to offer you some additional resources to help move beyond the potential pitfalls of overwork and consciously prioritize your holistic well-being.  A Self-prioritization Reading List Prioritizing Self Over Work Too Busy for YOU?: How to Prioritize Yourself for a Balanced, Mindful and Happy Life by Carol E. Ebert (2019) Evert offers tools to help identify reasons for being overly busy and strategies to prioritize self-care, discover passions, implement actionable steps, and build confidence in managing a busy lifestyle. The book encourages tapping into inner wisdom, challenging roadblocks, and shifting thinking towards self-prioritization. Win at Work and Succeed at Life: 5 Principles to Free Yourself from the Cult of Overwork by Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller (2021) Hya...

ProAdvisorCoach’s proprietary MindScan™ Assessment is a powerful behavioral assessment tool based on the work of Nobel Nominee Robert Hartman. The MindScan is designed to measure an individual's value perception and decision-making. It evaluates three dimensions: Systemic (logical and structured thinking), Extrinsic (practical and tangible aspects), and Intrinsic (emotional and relational values). By assessing how individuals prioritize and perceive these dimensions, the MindScan identifies areas of bias (distorted value perceptions) and clarity (accurate value perceptions), revealing insights into personal development and potential for growth. In this post, Coach Yuri Kruman  delves into common founder mistakes and outlines how the ProAdvisorCoach MindScan™ Assessment can help build a foundation of self-awareness and strategic clarity . Speed and noise kill. Not just pedestrians, but many startups, too. Let me explain... As a leadership coach and CHRO who has worked with, consulte...