Lea Bassa

What leadership principle guides you most in challenging times?

It is a leadership principle that stems from one of the most basic principles in everything in nature, and that is that things need to be born, things need to be brought into existence. Every time when I'm challenged, when I'm struggling, not knowing, not having clarity, not knowing all the steps that I should take in order to explain why I will be executing on what I'm executing, I just stop and I trust the process and the force, the life force of nature.

And I tap into this deep belief that everything that will exist needs to just start existing. And therefore I let myself go and flow on the current of this life force of whatever it is that I will be creating.

How do you approach balancing short-term results with long-term goals?

This is the greatest chunk of my role as an accountability coach. I do this not only for myself but also for my clients. I'm somewhat of a master of balancing the short-term results, the day-to-day, hour-to-hour results that are all that matters today, but they also all interconnect and add up to the goals of the next hour, the next day, the next week, all along till we reach the long-term goals that we have.

There are so many important parts of it. In the last four, five decades so many books and documentaries and researches have been done in order to find and research different aspects of doing this, but none of those books or courses or deeds actually combines them all. So what we do is, with my clients I bring in all that works and design a tailor-made structure that makes sense only for that particular client, only for that current version of themselves, and we adjust in six months, in a few years, as they move on, as they become different people.

What key trends do you see reshaping your industry right now?

It's AI. On one hand, I see so many mental health professionals, people in the motivational productivity service industry, that are complaining that people, the general public, is replacing us with AI.

Well, we are the ones replacing ourselves with AI by delegating the parts of our work that aren't our main core part of the work to AI, including all the marketing, all the public communication, everything that needs to be done with a human touch.

What's the best piece of career advice you've ever received?

Who are you to rob your clients from getting a good service and a good user experience that you can provide? It is called radical modesty, and it really helped me shift my perspective.

What excites you most about the future of your field or role?

Human creativity. We are hitting a new ceiling every day on what is possible right now. I think we would need a break, like taking a few steps back in order to see from a further perspective what we used to believe was the limit and what was possible, and combining it with all the new options that are opening for us and being delivered at our fingertips every day.

It will be very, very wild to watch what kind of new services, new ideas, new concepts are created that are based on the here and now but also incorporate everything that ever worked.