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Jade Floyd on The Leadership Labyrinth
Published 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Description
Twenty women, one labyrinth, and the DC insider secrets in between.
I mean, I think I need to hire Jade. That was my honest reaction sitting across from her at Tony and Joe's, oysters on the table, the Potomac right there, talking about power, fear, and the rooms women still have to fight to get into.
This is exactly why I wanted her on this DC food podcast. Most leadership books are written by people who never had to read a room, calm an investor, or figure out how to ask for what they deserve. Jade Floyd has done all three for twenty years in this town, and she put twenty of the women who taught her how into one book so the rest of us do not have to learn it the hard way.
Jade Floyd is Senior Vice President at Bryson Gillette, the Washington DC strategic communications firm she runs with an incredible team, after a career that took her from the Champagne Bureau to a decade as VP of Communications for Jean and Steve Case, the founders behind Early Mountain Vineyards and the Case Foundation. She teaches at GW's graduate school, made the Washington Business Journal 40 Under 40, and now she has written The Leadership Labyrinth, Women Navigating Power and Purpose in a Changing World, twenty women, twenty stories, one workbook to put it into practice. Episode keyword: Jade Floyd leadership author Washington DC.
Key Takeaways
Quotes
Jade Floyd said, "Burnout is no longer a badge of honor. Rest is your right."
Jade Floyd said, "You belong in every room you enter."
Timestamps
00:00 Nycci opens live at Tony and Joe's on the Potomac
02:11 Jade Floyd joins the conversation
02:49 Twenty years in Washington, from the Champagne Bureau to the Case family
07:39 Why leadership rooms need more than one woman in them
08:41 How The Leadership Labyrinth started as a favor for a friend
10:19 Seventy women considered, thirty interviewed, twenty in the book
12:11 Leadership starts with service
16:41 The Stephen Starr temperature story and reading the room
17:49 Amanda McClements and building a sanctuary at home
20:34 Taking the leap with Michelle Lynne Warmer of Decanter Wellness
22:20 Susan Tynan, Framebridge, and turning failure into a company
23:16 Finding your friendtors and your ride or die tribe
27:18 The hundred dollar bill lesson from Jade's father
29:11 Why burnout is no longer a badge of honor
31:32 Inside the workbook, want versus deserve
35:16 Rapid fire, leadership style and the best advice she ever got
37:50 Bonus, dollar oyster shucking at Tony and Joe's
Connect with Jade Floyd
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jadefloyddc/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jadefloyd/
I mean, I think I need to hire Jade. That was my honest reaction sitting across from her at Tony and Joe's, oysters on the table, the Potomac right there, talking about power, fear, and the rooms women still have to fight to get into.
This is exactly why I wanted her on this DC food podcast. Most leadership books are written by people who never had to read a room, calm an investor, or figure out how to ask for what they deserve. Jade Floyd has done all three for twenty years in this town, and she put twenty of the women who taught her how into one book so the rest of us do not have to learn it the hard way.
Jade Floyd is Senior Vice President at Bryson Gillette, the Washington DC strategic communications firm she runs with an incredible team, after a career that took her from the Champagne Bureau to a decade as VP of Communications for Jean and Steve Case, the founders behind Early Mountain Vineyards and the Case Foundation. She teaches at GW's graduate school, made the Washington Business Journal 40 Under 40, and now she has written The Leadership Labyrinth, Women Navigating Power and Purpose in a Changing World, twenty women, twenty stories, one workbook to put it into practice. Episode keyword: Jade Floyd leadership author Washington DC.
Key Takeaways
- Jade Floyd spent twenty years building her career in Washington DC, from the Champagne Bureau to a decade as VP of Communications for Jean and Steve Case.
- The Leadership Labyrinth is built from interviews with seventy women, thirty formal conversations, and twenty final chapters, twelve of them Washingtonians.
- On this hospitality industry podcast episode, Jade explains how she learned to read a room by watching restaurateur Stephen Starr ask his staff to adjust the temperature two degrees for his guests comfort.
- Burnout is not a badge of honor, and Jade blocks off two hours on her calendar every single day to protect her own capacity to lead.
- This DC food podcast conversation closes with the book's workbook, which pushes readers to separate what they want from what they deserve, and to write down the reason why.
Quotes
Jade Floyd said, "Burnout is no longer a badge of honor. Rest is your right."
Jade Floyd said, "You belong in every room you enter."
Timestamps
00:00 Nycci opens live at Tony and Joe's on the Potomac
02:11 Jade Floyd joins the conversation
02:49 Twenty years in Washington, from the Champagne Bureau to the Case family
07:39 Why leadership rooms need more than one woman in them
08:41 How The Leadership Labyrinth started as a favor for a friend
10:19 Seventy women considered, thirty interviewed, twenty in the book
12:11 Leadership starts with service
16:41 The Stephen Starr temperature story and reading the room
17:49 Amanda McClements and building a sanctuary at home
20:34 Taking the leap with Michelle Lynne Warmer of Decanter Wellness
22:20 Susan Tynan, Framebridge, and turning failure into a company
23:16 Finding your friendtors and your ride or die tribe
27:18 The hundred dollar bill lesson from Jade's father
29:11 Why burnout is no longer a badge of honor
31:32 Inside the workbook, want versus deserve
35:16 Rapid fire, leadership style and the best advice she ever got
37:50 Bonus, dollar oyster shucking at Tony and Joe's
Connect with Jade Floyd
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jadefloyddc/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jadefloyd/