Alanna Shaikh: Leading with Clarity Through Complexity and Turmoil

Host Rexhen interviews Alanna Shaikh, a global health leader, TED Senior Fellow, and executive coach. With 10+ years of coaching and a background in global health systems across 20+ countries, Alanna guides high-performing professionals through leadership, clarity, and change.Her coaching journey began unexpectedly through her global health blog, leading her to formal coach training to transition from advisor to a powerful questioner. Her business is called "This World Needs Brave." She finds it most rewarding to see clients transform and find meaning in their work.Alanna's clients, mostly referrals from word-of-mouth, span all career levels. She offers personalized programs (minimum 4 sessions, ideally 6-12 months) for lasting change. She does minimal marketing, preferring to rely on her strong referral network.Currently, a challenge is coaching clients forced into career changes due to turmoil in the global health sector, which she calls "grief coaching." She balances this with a part-time global health job. Good investments for her were a virtual assistant, advanced calendaring software, and her blog (thisworldneedsbrave.com) as a client resource.Her advice to coaches: define your own impact, and embrace it, as she coaches individuals striving to "shape human history for the better."Find Alanna Shaikh:Coaching Website: thisworldneedsbrave.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alannashaikh?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2FSupport the showYou can also watch this podcast on YouTube at:https://www.youtube.com/@CareerCoachingSecretsIf you are a career coach looking to grow your business you can find out more about Purple Circle at http://joinpurplecircle.com Get Exclusive Access to Our In-Depth Analysis of 71 Successful Career Coaches, Learn exactly what worked (and what didn't) in the career coaching industry in 2024: https://joinpurplecircle.com/white-paper-replay

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