This document provides guidance on building resilience as a growth leader. It discusses challenges of growth such as changing marketing channels, technology landscapes, and decreasing attention spans. It emphasizes viewing customers holistically and having an internal locus of control over external factors. The document outlines foundations of resilience like self care, support systems, understanding biases and personality. It provides tips for navigating stress, bringing awareness to emotions, and changing habits through satisfying, easy and obvious behaviors.

1. Building
Resiliency as a
Growth Leader
DANI HART
GROWTHGAL@dahartattack

2. I'm Dani Hart
GrowthGal
FORMER HEAD OF GROWTH
Helped companies adopt sustainable
growth practices @ GrowthHackers.
WRITER & YOGA TEACHER
Helping people better understand
themselves & become more resilent.

3. Resilience
the power or ability to return to the
original form, position, etc., after
being bent, compressed, or
stretched; elasticity.
ability to recover readily from illness,
depression, adversity, or the like;
buoyancy.
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4. External Challenges in Growth
EVOLUTION OF
MARKETING
CHANNELS
A channel that works
today, may be obsolete
or too expensive
tomorrow.
GROWTH OF
MARTECH
LANDSCAPE
Your tech stack &
competitive landscape is
changing at an
expontential rate.
DECREASE IN
HUMAN ATTENTION
SPAN
You have a shorter
window of time to show
value to your
customers.

5. 6 BLIND MEN & THE ELEPHANT
WHAT DOES THE ELEPHANT LOOK LIKE?
The
Elephant in
the room

6. YOUR TEAM & THE CUSTOMER
WHAT DOES THE CUSTOMER LOOK LIKE?
Surprise!
Your
customer is
the Elephant

7. & help your team do the same.
Your job is to
visualize the full
elephant & help
lead it to water

8. Growth is hard,
rewarding &
driven by process.
Guess what?! Personal & company growth both follow the same process.

9. Growth
Process
ZOOM OUT
What is the most broken part?
Identify an objective to focus on.
ZOOM IN
create new ideas
prioritize ideas based on impact
test ideas
analyze the tests
repeat
Start a positive feedback loop to:
ZOOM OUT
Is this still the most broken part? If not, move on.

10. External
Internal
Locus of Control
"Things happen to me."
"I make things happen."

11. Moving Towards
Internal Locus
of Control
"Not only is a more internal locus tied to
perceiving less stress & performing
better but changing your locus from
external to internal leads to positive
changes in both psychological well-being
and objective work performance.
The cognitive skills that underpin
resilience can be learned over time,
creating resilience where there was
none."
newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/the-secret-formula-for-resilience

12. There's always one thing you can control:
how you choose to show up.
Self Study

13. EAT & DRINK
Am I getting the right nutrients for optimal energy?
MOVEMENT
Am I moving my body to stay healthy?
PAUSE & REFLECT
Am I giving myself time to relax & reset?
The
Foundations
SLEEP
Am I getting 7-8 hours of sleep every night?

14. WHO DO I SURROUND
MYSELF WITH?
Find mentors, buddies &
support systems to push
you to be your best self.
WHAT IS MY
ATTACHMENT STYLE?
Learn your attachment
style & work towards
secure attachment.
HOW DO I LEARN
BEST?
Test different formats:
text, videos, hands on,
courses, audio, etc.
WHAT BIAS DO I
CARRY?
Talk to different people w/
different backgrounds,
roles & companies.
WHAT IS MY
PERSONALITY?
Use HEXACO to uncover
strengths & weaknesses
w/ dominant traits.
WHAT ARE MY CORE
VALUES?
Revisit peak experiences in
life, suppressed values &
your ideal code of conduct.
The Roots of Resilience

15. SUPPORT SYSTEM
9 mentors from different
parts of career, buddies,
Women in Growth group
ATTACHMENT STYLE
Slightly anxious working
toward secure attachment
LEARNING STYLE
1:1 conversations,
articles & books on audio,
video presentations
BIAS
Curse of knowledge, sunk
cost fallacy, confirmation
bias, groupthink
PERSONALITY
High Openness to
Experience, Sociability,
Flexibility
CORE VALUES
Growth, community,
health, respect, longevity,
equality
The Roots of Resilience

16. "Pushing too hard too often
— stress without rest —
doesn’t lead to growth. It
leads to fatigue & burnout."
-Brad Stulberg & Steve Magness, Peak Performance
Navigating Stress

17. Bringing
Awareness to
the Emotional
Brain
STEP 1: PAUSE
WHO'S SHOWING UP?
THE ZEBRA OR
RATIONAL THOUGHT?
STEP 2: NOTICE
CHECK IN W/ YOUR
THOUGHTS & BODY
SENSATIONS
STEP 3: RESET
START W/ DEEP
BREATH & TEST NEW
IDEAS TO RESET

18. 4 Laws of Behavior Change
"Forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead. The most
effective way to change your habits is to focus not on what you want to
achieve, but on who you wish to become."
James Clear, Atomic Habits
SatisfyingEasyObvious Attractive
A simple set of rules to build better habits are to make them:

19. Book
Recommendations
Why We Sleep - Mathew Walker
Atomic Habits - James Clear
Stress-Proof - Mithu Storoni
Peak Performance - Stulberg & Magness
Attached - Levine & Heller

20. Thank you!
Now go relax.
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