Cy Wakeman proposes a radically different approach to HR leadership. Changing the ways leaders think and the strategies they use in their work is a serious and critical economic issue. Leaders should help others develop the great mental processes they need to eliminate self-imposed suffering and choose to be accountable for driving results.

1. No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of
Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results
Cy Wakeman Naba Ahmed
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4. About Cy Wakeman
Cy Wakeman is a drama researcher, global thought-leader, and New York Times best-selling author who is
recognized for cultivating a counter-intuitive, reality-based approach to leadership. Backed by 20 years of
unparalleled experience, Wakeman’s philosophy offers a new lens through which employees and executives alike,
can shift their attention inward, sharpen their focus on personal accountability, and uncover their natural state of
innovation simply by ditching the drama. Wakeman has published three books, the latest of which is No Ego: How
to Cut the Cost of Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results (2017). Cy also hosts her own No Ego podcast, a
Facebook Watch show, Life’s Messy, Live Happy, and adds weekly video content on YouTube to address leaders’
biggest challenges in the workplace.
About Naba Ahmed
Naba went to Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and majored in Journalism and minored in Integrated Marketing
Communications. After working as Editor-in-Chief at the campus newspaper, she became interested in developing
content across multiple platforms, and now works as a Content Marketing Specialist at Aggregage, providing some of
the most interesting thought-leaders across a wide variety of industries with a space to celebrate the diversity, depth,
and experience of their professional cultures, personalities, and passions.

5. NO EGO
The Reality of Peace, Happiness and Great Results at
Work
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7. WHAT WOULD
GREAT
LOOK LIKE?
@cywakeman

8. THEN GO BE GREAT.
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9. DRAMA AND
THE DATA
hours/day2.5
hours/week17
68 hours/month
816 hours/year
@cywakeman

10. SOURCES OF DRAMA
Cy Wakeman, Reality-Based Leadership | @cywakeman
EGO 32%
ACCOUNTABILITY 23%
BUY-IN 14%
CHANGE 13%
ENGAGEMENT 8%
Other 10%

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13. STOP JUDGING.
START HELPING.
@cywakeman

14. YOUR EGO IS NOT
YOUR AMIGO.
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What can I do to help?
What do I know for sure?
What can I do to add value?
What would great look like?
@cywakeman

20. YOUR SUFFERING IS
OPTIONAL…
@cywakeman

21. …AND ALMOST ALWAYS
SELF-IMPOSED.
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23. WHAT DO I KNOW
FOR SURE?
@cywakeman

24. STOP BELIEVING
EVERYTHING
YOU THINK.
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28. Invite PEACE
into your life.
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29. Q&A
Naba Ahmed
With: Moderated by:
M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership
Linkedin page: /in/cywakeman
Twitter ID: @cywakeman
Website: realitybasedleadership.com/
Cy Wakeman
Editor, Human Resources Today
Linkedin page: /in/naba-ahmed/
Twitter ID: @hrposts
Email: naba@aggregage.com
Website: humanresourcestoday.com
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