The Ability to Lead Others Starts With The Ability to Know Yourself. Who are you? What do you value? What do you stand for? Strong leaders understand themselves and what their vision and goals are. The quality of a leader is reflected by the values they set for themselves and hold for others. Investing in yourself is investing in your people. It’s a full circle. Isabelle and Cloé discuss on how leaders must know and understand themselves to have the ability to empower others.

Empathy is so powerful in business. Harout Chitilian and I both came from humble beginnings and with this, it's a reflex to put ourselves in someone else's shoes. That's why I couldn't resist inviting Harout Chitilian, Vice-President of Corporate Affairs and head of development and strategy at CDPQ Infra, because I know that this is one of his core values and he implements it in his everyday life which no doubt helped him reach his current status and realizing his full potential.

Part of being an authentic leader is finding, and applying, the optimal alignment between who you are at home and who you are at work. This requires bravery and constant adjustments! It also requires you to manage your ego and ideally putting it aside completely. Leadership starts from within ourselves - by getting to know ourselves, our strengths, our blind spots, our limits, our values and our beliefs.

Andrea Schwarz is the head of Sales at Telus Health Care Centers. She is also part of the WLP - Women's Leaders in Pharma. She shares what being authentic means to her and how she allows herself to be vulnerable and conscious of her negotiables and non-negotiable values.