Billy Anderson
Executive Leadership Coach
Billy Anderson is an international speaker, executive leadership coach, and author of the book “Your Comfort Zone Is Killing You.”
Previously, Billy was an advertising manager in Europe and Canada, a fundraising director for UNICEF, an apple picker in New Zealand and a sugar cane farmer in Costa Rica. He also spent 10 years leading wilderness trips for Outward Bound.
Billy continually steps out of his comfort zone in order to test his courage. He has jumped out of an airplane exactly 101 times. He has traveled to over 40 countries, including running with the bulls in Spain and swimming with sharks in South America.
And he’s scared of the exact same things as everyone else: failure, looking stupid, and not being liked.
BILLY ANDERSON DEMO VIDEO
When Billy was 5 years old his mom heard him crying in his room. She asked what was wrong and he replied, “You’re born, you live for a while, then you die. What’s the point?” He has spent the rest of his life figuring it out.
The secret lies in building courage in order to step out of our comfort zone regularly, allowing us to have a bigger impact and feel fulfillment in the process. Billy now builds more courageous leaders and teams in franchise-based organizations as an international speaker, executive leadership coach, and author of the book “Your Comfort Zone Is Killing You”.
Previously, he was an advertising manager in Europe and Canada, a fundraising director for UNICEF, an apple picker in New Zealand, and a sugar cane farmer in Costa Rica. He also spent 10 years leading wilderness adventure trips for Outward Bound. Billy Anderson continually steps out of his comfort zone in order to grow his courage. He has jumped out of an airplane 101 times. He has traveled to over 40 countries, including running with the Bulls in Spain. Billy has led humanitarian projects building an aqueduct in Central America and a school on a tiny island in the South Pacific Ocean.
His personal fundraising projects include carrying a canoe 26 miles to send needy kids to summer camp. And he’s scared of the exact same things as everyone else: failure, looking stupid, and not being liked.
Partial Client List:
- Bell
- California Closets
- Canadian Olympic Foundation
- CertaPro
- FundServ Inc.
- Gunther Mele
- Home Trust
- KPMG
- Paul Davis
- SalesForce
- Sun Life Financial
- TD Bank
- Telus
Unfreezing your people so they’re ready to embrace change. If left unaddressed, change leads to a drop in productivity and an erosion of trust as teams get more territorial and work in silos. We connect your company values to behaviours in order to drive “strategic” courage.
Growth and comfort do not co-exist, therefore we don’t grow into our best self without courage. We first need to understand that our discomfort is normal, then we need to feel we will be supported. In order to grow, we need to be uncomfortable MORE often, not less. And we need to evolve our courageous growth goals continuously through conversation and asking for help.
Engagement and ownership come from having input into solutions. Therefore leaders need to step back so their people can step up. In other words, leaders need to ask the right questions and their teams need to have the courage to speak up in order to:
a) share more ideas
b) have the hard conversations
c) get the right work done
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