Embracing Ally Leadership, with Becky Berry, Becky Berry Coaching (North Fulton Business Radio, Episode 797)
In this episode of North Fulton Business Radio, host John Ray welcomes leadership coach Becky Berry. Becky shares insights on ally leadership, contrasting it with mentorship and servant leadership. She discusses the importance of agency, promoting inclusivity, and supporting underrepresented employees. Becky also outlines her “Seven Commitments of Female Leadership” and shares a compelling success story. This episode offers valuable advice for emerging women leaders and emphasizes the significance of allies in fostering a thriving work environment.
John Ray is the host of North Fulton Business Radio. The show is recorded and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta.
Becky Berry, Becky Berry Coaching
Becky Berry is an Executive Career Coach coach whose mission is to help women reach the potential they’re afraid to admit that they have.
To do that, she empowers women to own their personal impact and the impact of their work. She facilitates their ability to speak fluently, without hesitation, about both. Her specialty is using language to gift clients with a clear understanding of their own gifts and power. She supports women as they create rich, meaningful work and home lives on their own terms.
Becky has experienced several crossroads in her life, including careers as magazine publisher, software entrepreneur, stay-at-home mom, special education teacher, social entrepreneur, and widowhood. Her life and work experiences allow her to provide uniquely empowering and supportive coaching to women at all stages of their lives.
Becky also produces and cohosts She’s Not Done Yet: Conversations with Women Over 50, available wherever you listen to podcasts, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. She lives in the northern suburbs of Atlanta, GA.
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Topics Discussed in this Episode
00:00 Introduction and Welcome
01:33 Meet Becky Berry: Executive and Career Coach Extraordinaire
02:29 The Evolution of Becky’s Coaching Practice
04:45 Leadership Coaching: Becky’s Sweet Spot
08:42 The Concept of Ally Leadership
22:18 Commitments of Female Leadership
24:29 Survey on Women’s Leadership Preferences
24:57 The Importance of Agency and Authenticity
25:33 Role Models and Vulnerability in Leadership
27:13 Recognizing and Elevating Unrecognized Talent
28:02 Promoting Diversity for Business Success
29:30 The Business Case for Diversity
33:11 Personal Leadership Coaching Success Stories
34:35 How to Engage with Becky Berry’s Services
41:08 Conclusion and Contact Information
Renasant Bank and Casa Nuova Italian Restaurant support North Fulton Business Radio
Renasant Bank has humble roots, starting in 1904 as a $100,000 bank in a Lee County, Mississippi, bakery. Since then, Renasant has become one of the Southeast’s strongest financial institutions, with over $13 billion in assets and more than 190 banking, lending, wealth management, and financial services offices in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. All of Renasant’s success stems from each of their banker’s commitment to investing in their communities as a way of better understanding the people they serve. At Renasant Bank, they understand you because they work and live alongside you every day.
Casa Nuova is a proud family-owned and operated restaurant, serving classic, authentic and traditional Italian cuisine and top tier hospitality since 1998.
Casa Nuova is a cook-to-order kitchen, serving traditional fare including pasta, chicken, seafood, veal, vegetarian and gluten-free options, plus daily specials. They are a farm-to-table establishment, meaning that in the summertime, they cultivate their own vegetables in their garden, steps away from the restaurant, including tomatoes, corn, peppers, zucchini, sunflowers and more!
Celebrating more than 25 years, Casa Nuova has become a true staple in the Alpharetta area, serving more than three generations of families, including friends old and new, visiting near and far from all over the metro Atlanta area and beyond.
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About North Fulton Business Radio and host John Ray
With over 790 shows and having featured over 1,200 guests, North Fulton Business Radio is the longest-running podcast in the North Fulton area, covering business in our community like no one else. We are the undisputed “Voice of Business” in North Fulton!
The show welcomes a wide variety of business, non-profit, and community leaders to get the word out about the important work they’re doing to serve their market, their community, and their profession. There’s no discrimination based on company size, and there’s never any “pay to play.” North Fulton Business Radio supports and celebrates business by sharing positive business stories that traditional media ignore. Some media leans left. Some media leans right. We lean business.
John Ray is the host of North Fulton Business Radio. The show is recorded and produced from the North Fulton studio of Business RadioX® inside Renasant Bank in Alpharetta. You can find the full archive of shows by following this link. The show is available on all the major podcast apps, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Amazon, iHeart Radio, and many others.
The studio address is 275 South Main Street, Alpharetta, GA 30009.
John Ray also operates his own business advisory practice. John’s services include advising solopreneurs and small professional services firms on their value, their positioning and business development, and their pricing. His clients are professionals who are selling their expertise, such as consultants, coaches, attorneys, CPAs, accountants and bookkeepers, marketing professionals, and other professional services practitioners.
John is the national bestselling author of The Generosity Mindset: A Journey to Business Success by Raising Your Confidence, Value, and Prices.
