177. Susan Taylor on How to Lead a Strategy Day

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Susan’s approach to leading strategy day centres on developing leadership from the inside out. In a world that rewards speed, certainty, and performance, Susan offers a different way: one rooted in presence, deep listening, and the discipline of noticing.

She speaks about:
Why composure isn’t about calming, but about acknowledging and becoming aware of your internal state
How powerful conversations are shaped before anyone speaks
What it means to facilitate with both structure and softness

This episode is a quiet revolution in how we think about leadership. If you’ve ever left a meeting thinking “something was off,” or wondered why a group couldn’t move forward, Susan offers a new lens.

It’s not flashy. It’s not performative. But it’s the kind of leadership that shifts rooms and changes people.

About the Guest

Susan Taylor

Susan Taylor is a transformational coach and facilitator with over 30 years of experience helping entrepreneurs and executives unlock their potential through heart-centered and purpose-aligned practices. As CEO and co-founder of Generon International, she draws on her expertise in Bohmian Dialogue to foster clarity, transform relationships, and build cultures of innovation and inclusivity. A former Forbes contributor and founding member of the Conscious Leadership Guild, Susan also serves on the Advisory Committee of the American Leadership Forum.

About the Host

Julia Middleton

Julia Middleton is the host of the Women Emerging podcast and a best-selling author of “If that’s leading, I’m in” as well as two previous books: “Leading beyond Authority” and “Cultural Intelligence”. She is deeply committed to helping people from all backgrounds to find their own approach to leading.

In 2020, Julia launched Women Emerging and in 2022 she lead an expedition of 24 women to find ‘an approach to leading that resonates with women’. She now leads expeditions with women all over the world based on 4Es methodology, discovered in the first expedition.

Prior to that, Julia was founder and, for over thirty years, Chief Executive of Common Purpose, which grew to become one of the biggest leadership development organisations in the world.
Julia is also an Ambassador for the Aurora Prize based in Armenia, on the boards of Alfanar Venture Philanthropy in the Arab World and Equality Now, which operates globally, and on the Advisory Councils of Fundacao Dom Cabral in Brazil and Synapse in Pakistan.

Born in London and brought up in New York, Julia was educated at French Lycées and graduated from the London School of Economics. She is married, with five children and lots of grandchildren.