Leaders as Talent Scouts: How Great Leaders Activate the Overlooked People in Your Organization and Make Them a Source of Your Greatest Strength with Diane Bailey-Boulet

One of the key responsibilities of leadership is finding and growing talented people to enable team and organizational success. And while we hear a lot about talent shortages these days, innovative organizations and leaders see themselves as Talent Scouts of overlooked talent. They have a mindset and superpower that helps them reduce the talent shortage by seeing the gifts of people who are already in our communities and organizations--but who may not match our pre-existing ideas of:

Who’s talentedWhat talent looks likeWhere talent comes from.

During this episode of Activating HOPE with Diane Bailey-Boulet, we’ll discuss how leaders can activate overlooked people in their organizations and make them a source of their greatest strength.

Diane Bailey-Boulet is the President of Scale Excellence LLC, a consulting and coaching firm dedicated to driving cultural transformation in organizations.

With a passion for championing opportunity for all, Diane specializes in leadership development, inclusion strategies, and mentoring programs that empower individuals and teams to thrive.

She is the author of Poverty to Possibility: Snapshots from a Yorkshire Boyhood, a powerful memoir about her father’s journey from a Depression-era coal-mining village in England to a life of leadership and resilience.

Diane’s corporate experience includes:

Leading a global account team at CoachSource in placing executive coaches; Leadership development at Humana, where she designed programs for top executives and scaled enterprise-wide mentoring and women’s leadership initiatives. Previously, as Vice President of Client Solutions for Better Communications (now The Ariel Group), she helped leaders in global companies turn their everyday writing into a competitive advantage for building relationships and selling ideas.

An International Coaching Federation-accredited coach, Diane works with a diverse range of coaching clients—from first-generation professionals to military leaders transitioning to civilian life. She holds a B.A. in History from Boston College, completed the Evidence-Based Coaching program at Fielding Graduate University, and studied TESOL at Boston University.

A first-generation British-American, Diane loves to travel, read, make music, and cook. She lives with her husband and is the proud mother of two adult daughters.