041: Living Past the Death Lines with Dr. Karen Tilstra

Evolve: A New Era of Leadership

In this episode, Dr. Karen Tilstra joins me to discuss ‘The Death Lines’ and how it impacts the ways in which we show up as leaders of ourselves, our teams, and our businesses.

Karen Tilstra, co-founder and director of Florida Hospital's Innovation Lab, (FHIL), is passionate about helping people discover their own innate creativity.

She is an Educational Psychologist who holds a doctoral degree in Creativity, Innovation and Leadership. She has worked in both secondary and higher education in Asia and the United States. She believes she has learned more from students than they have learned from her.

Karen enjoys writing, spending time with family and friends, and watching a great movie. She is also known for her idiosyncratic pets, including the pet donkey who taught her that nothing is impossible and her stray dog who resembles a cross between an opossum, raccoon and weasel. She currently lives in Florida with her artist husband and three sons.

We talk about:

• [0:00] Intro

• [3:10] How her work start in the realm of creativity

• [8:35] Creating Design Thinking Innovation Lab

• [11:50] What does The Death Line mean and why she choose that as the title of her book

• [16:25] How the pandemic changed the death lines

• [25:00] Comfort zones vs. panic zones

• [26:20] ACES to manage your death line

• [29:20] Space & The Tollbooth Technique

• [32:30] Leading with Grace

• [34:15] Operating on more than one pace

• [39:55] How to pull these concepts together

• [49:00] Where to find her book

• [50:40] Rapid fire questions

Connect with Dr. Karen

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-tilstra-phd-6b3660b/

• TED Talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1SK_qNLx5U / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4hcrA1aVpA

• Book: https://www.amazon.com/Deathline-Stopping-All-Time-Killer-Potential-ebook

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