Episode Details

Be Joyfully Diligent with Alex T. Steffen

Our guest for this week is Alex T. Steffen, a business consultant, best-selling author, and an award-winning presenter.

Alex started his career as a digital marketing specialist, but over the course of the last decade, he has specialized in the fields of innovation management and the future of work. By providing consultancy services he facilitates the organizational development and innovation efforts of enterprises. In the process, he aims to equip employees and leaders with the required competencies and skills, while breaking down complex innovation problems into solvable tasks using agile methods such as design thinking, user journeys, gamification, masterminds, and custom learning journeys. His client list includes names of renowned companies like SAP, Red Bull, Mercedes Benz, and Webasto.

He co-founded Growth Masters, an invite-only adventure mastermind which combines crowdsource coaching and accountability systems to help entrepreneurs advance and take their businesses to the next step. They provide their attendees (tribe members) with strategic business advice on active and passive income vehicles like brand building, preparing online courses, launching an Amazon FBA business, consulting, presenting, podcasting and more. Growth Masters is also a community which aims to connect bestselling authors, prominent startup founders, world-class speakers, athletes and other people who are prominent in their fields.

Connect with Alex:

• Website: http://alextsteffen.com/en/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/alextsteffen?lang=en
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Alex-T-Steffen/514164496
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alextsteffen/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alextsteffen/

Alex’s Story of Inspired Evolution

When he was only three years old, Alex suffered from an illness, which he luckily managed to successfully overcome. However, he reckons that this experience maybe affected him to become the joyful, energetic person he is today. His parents assured him that his perseverance played an important role in making a full recovery.

“My mom always said I fought the illness myself, rather than the medicine.” - Alex T. Steffen

His adolescence and young adulthood were enriched with a curiosity that led him to explore and travel to different parts of the world. These travels were not short excursions to new places, but more like journeys outside of his comfort zone, and Alex looked to spend time in new environments so that he could transform and advance.

“I made it a point to go to places that are so different that people often don’t dare to go.” - Alex T. Steffen

Alex explored places and sought to get in touch with people who had a completely different view of the world, either from being shut off or as a result of war and similar traumatic experiences. Places like Bosnia, Ruanda, Colombia… He points out the narrow viewpoints of the western world and that through these deep and meaningful interactions with people whose experiences are vastly different from our own, we can get a fuller, more accurate picture of the world that we see around us.

Joyfulness, Diligence, Optimism

Throughout our conversation, Alex remembers and honors his grandfather with having a great impact on his joyful attitude towards life. A war veteran,