Susan L Hobson

08/07/2025

What if imposter syndrome isn’t the problem—
but a signal your nervous system doesn’t feel safe at the next level?

I see this all the time with high performers stepping into new leadership roles.
It’s not about lacking capability.
It’s what happens when your role evolves—but your nervous system is still calibrated to an earlier version of who you had to be to succeed.

Because when your system doesn’t feel safe, even the most accomplished part of you starts to question:
👉 “Am I really ready for this?”
👉 “What if I can’t meet expectations?”
👉 “Will they still respect me if I get it wrong?”

These aren’t just thoughts.
They’re protective strategies—rooted in early belief systems like perfectionism, people-pleasing, or fear of failure.

And while they may have helped you achieve success up to this point…
They won’t sustain you in your next level of leadership.

If you're ready to stop managing symptoms and start working at the root—
where real, lasting transformation happens:
💥 I’m offering 50% off Deep Dive Coaching Sessions until August 30, 2025.
This is where we uncover the real wiring behind your leadership—and begin the shift from survival to self-trust.

🔗 Book Your Deep Dive Session Now
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08/05/2025

Have you taken the time to define your purpose, or are you just going through the motions?
Watch the full podcast: https://youtu.be/mi9XvCF_dd8

This is one of the most important questions I ask the high performers I work with.
Because when purpose is missing, success feels hollow.

You can have the title, the team, and the results, but still feel disconnected.
In this week’s episode of the Leadership Launchpad Podcast, Tracey Allen and I explore what it truly means to lead with purpose. Not as a trend, but as a foundation for fulfillment, resilience, and real impact.

Inside the conversation:
✅ What purpose means and why it matters now more than ever
✅ Why high achievers often feel unfulfilled despite external success
✅ How to reconnect with what drives you on a deeper level
✅ What purpose-driven leadership looks like in action
✅ How alignment fuels clarity, performance, and long-term growth

If you're craving deeper meaning in how you lead, this episode is for you.
Ready to define your purpose and lead with it every day?
Book your free consultation:
https://elitehighperformance.mykajabi.com/book-a-free-consultation

07/29/2025

What if the very thing driving your success… is also what's burning you out?
Watch the full Podcast: https://youtu.be/CZGF3m8tG-E

That was the question on my heart when we hit record on this one.

In today’s high-stakes leadership environment, the old model—grind harder, push faster, chase performance at all costs—isn’t just outdated. It’s unsustainable. And I see it every day in the high performers I coach: the ones who are crushing goals but quietly crashing inside.

That’s why in this episode of The Leadership Launchpad: Legacy Edition, Tracey Allen and I brought back one of our favourite conscious leadership voices—Sanja Ralevic, CEO of Heartvista Performance—to go deep on the real edge in today’s leadership landscape: consciousness.

🎙️ We unpack:
✅ What conscious leadership really means in 2025
✅ How emotional regulation shifts team culture and decisions
✅ Why heart coherence is the future of high performance
✅ The hidden cost of unconscious leadership
✅ Practical tools for staying present under pressure
If you're ready to evolve how you lead—this one’s for you. Because in a world of uncertainty and AI-driven everything, your state of consciousness is your strategy.

📅 Ready to elevate your leadership impact? Book a free consultation:
https://elitehighperformance.mykajabi.com/book-a-free-consultation

07/22/2025

What limiting beliefs are fuelling your imposter syndrome?
Watch the Full Podcast Now: https://youtu.be/HH8_V28PDVw

I see it all the time—high achievers who are outwardly successful but secretly stuck in cycles of self-doubt, perfectionism, and fear of being “found out.”

In this week’s episode of the Leadership Launchpad Podcast, I sat down with my powerhouse co-host Tracey Allen to unpack what’s really going on beneath imposter syndrome—and how to finally beat it for good.
🎧 Inside the episode:
🧠 Why imposter syndrome shows up strongest at the top
⚠️ How deeply rooted beliefs like “I’m not enough” silently sabotage success
📊 A real-life client story of a leader unraveling under pressure
💡 Tools to recognize emotional triggers and rewire your mindset
🔥 A powerful strategy to help you step back into your confidence and leadership

If you’ve ever felt like a fraud—even when you're crushing it—this episode is for you.
🎯 Let’s beat imposter syndrome and lead from a place of real, grounded power.
https://elitehighperformance.mykajabi.com/book-a-free-consultation

07/17/2025

Are you leading from autopilot—or awareness?

🎧 Watch The Leadership Launchpad Podcast: Legacy Edition
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKavaRN6XDNLXmd8V10mzuDbVEsc1pwqV

In a world that rewards reactivity, repetition, and results-at-any-cost, conscious leadership invites a radical shift:
· 🌿 Presence over performance
· 🔍 Awareness over assumption
· 🤝 Co-creation over control
I’ve been diving deep into this work—through my own consciousness training, the coaching I bring into boardrooms and team off-sites, and now by leading The Leadership Launchpad: The Legacy Edition podcast, which I co-host with Tracey Allen.

So what is conscious leadership?
It’s leadership that begins within.
It’s the practice of being aware—and therefore available—to what’s truly happening in front of you.
It’s where new choices, fresh innovations, and real growth begin.

When we lead consciously, we don’t just rinse and repeat.
We respond rather than react.
We build alignment, connection, and sustainable momentum—not just surface-level wins.

If that’s the kind of leader you’re ready to become...
🎙️ Tune into the latest episode of The Leadership Launchpad: The Legacy Edition to explore how conscious leadership can elevate your impact.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKavaRN6XDNLXmd8V10mzuDbVEsc1pwqV

07/15/2025

Ever walked out of a high-stakes meeting thinking, “Why did I react like that?”
Or found yourself stuck in analysis paralysis, second-guessing decisions you know you're qualified to make?
🎧 Watch the podcast:https://youtu.be/CxfeEKl8umw

What’s happening beneath the surface is something I see with high-achieving leaders every day—subconscious programming. And it’s more common than most people realize.

In this episode, Tracey Allen and I break down how Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) helps leaders recode the way they think, feel, and lead—so they can stop reacting and start choosing with intention.

🎯 We talk about:
- How your emotional state impacts decision-making
- The limiting patterns you might not even know you're reinforcing
- The neuroscience behind "state management"
- What NLP actually is—and why it’s transforming how CEOs and elite athletes lead

This isn’t surface-level mindset talk—it’s the science of sustained high performance.
✨ If you're ready to lead with clarity, confidence, and conscious intention—this one’s for you.
🎧 Tune in now or book a free consult to explore how NLP coaching can help rewire your leadership:
https://elitehighperformance.mykajabi.com/book-a-free-consultation

07/08/2025

What would make you want to come back to the office?
Watch Now: https://youtu.be/yGmmO-UdzCs

I’m not talking about snacks or mandates—I’m talking about meaning, intention, and spaces that actually support how we work best.

🎙️ In the latest episode of the Leadership Launchpad Podcast: Legacy Edition, I sat down with Tracey Allen and Mette Johansen Keating—founder of MetteSpace and author of Space That Speaks: Designing Workspaces Where People Thrive and Business Grows—to explore how leaders can reimagine the workplace in ways that truly inspire their teams.

We dig into:
✅ Why rethinking office culture is key to retaining top talent
✅ How human-centered design fuels trust, creativity, and collaboration
✅ What hybrid work really demands from leaders
✅ The 3 essential questions to create workspaces people love

This episode is for every leader navigating hybrid transitions or craving a better way to lead teams back into the workplace—with purpose.

✨ Ready to lead a space where your people want to be? Watch now and let’s elevate your leadership impact.
🔗 Book your free leadership consultation here: https://elitehighperformance.mykajabi.com/book-a-free-consultation

07/01/2025

Disruption is the new norm. So the question is… how do you lead through it?
Watch the full podcast: https://youtu.be/Qfo7xLalH0Q

In this Legacy Edition of The Leadership Launchpad Podcast, I join forces with Tracey Allen, Head of Real Estate at Nokia, to explore what it truly takes to lead consciously in 2025.
We’re not talking about surface-level strategies.

We’re talking about the inner shifts that define the most resilient, aligned, and high-impact leaders today.

🎯 In this episode, we unpack:
- The neuroscience behind conscious leadership
- How to lead from alignment—not autopilot
- Tools for staying grounded under pressure
- What it takes to unlock legacy-level leadership

If you're feeling the weight of uncertainty, team pressure, or internal disconnection—this conversation is for you.

💡 Conscious Leadership isn’t a trend. It’s the competitive edge that will define the next generation of influential, emotionally intelligent leaders.

🎧 Tune in to the episode here → https://youtu.be/Qfo7xLalH0Q
📈 And if you’re ready to elevate your leadership game →
https://elitehighperformance.mykajabi.com/book-a-free-consultation

How Conscious Leaders Thrive Through Uncertainty | The Leadership Launchpad PodcastIn this powerful episode of The Leadership Launchpad Podcast: The Legacy E...

06/18/2025

What is conscious leadership—and why does the future of business depend on it?
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/2XLdjmmFmKw

In our latest episode of the Leadership Launchpad Project, I sat down with my co-hosts Liane Wansbrough and Shelley West to explore this exact question with the incredible Jane Moran—a certified executive coach with over 25 years of experience in behavior change and brain-based leadership.

Jane brought the fire. We went deep into the neuroscience of conscious leadership, unpacking what it really means to lead with self-awareness, psychological safety, and authenticity—especially in today’s high-pressure, constantly shifting world.

🎯 If you're a corporate leader, HR professional, entrepreneur, or coach, this one’s for you. It's packed with practical, science-backed strategies to help you lead with purpose, not pressure.

🧠 In this episode, you’ll learn how to:
- Apply neuroscience to how you lead
- Create true psychological safety (without buzzwords)
- Lead yourself before trying to lead others
- Build resilience in the face of uncertainty
- Tap into your consciousness and creativity to drive impact

If you’re ready to shift from transactional to transformational leadership, this is the conversation you’ve been waiting for.
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/2XLdjmmFmKw

Ready to transform your leadership mindset? Book your free consultation now https://elitehighperformance.mykajabi.com/book-a-free-consultation

06/17/2025

Leadership is about more than just knowing what to do – it’s about knowing how to think about why you do what you do.
📖 Read the full feature here: https://www.managehrmagazine.com/elite-high-performance

At Elite High Performance, that’s exactly what we focus on. Our Leadership 2.0 methodology is grounded in neuroscience, psychology, and high-performance coaching—and it’s designed to help leaders build mental resilience, clarity, and deep self-awareness from the inside out.

This approach came directly from my own experiences.

As a former professional hockey player and Princeton graduate, I discovered early on that mindset—not just skill—was what gave me my edge. It was the mental discipline, emotional regulation, and inner strategy that helped me perform under pressure, both on the ice and in life.

Later, when I transitioned into leadership coaching, I combined those performance principles with my academic background in neuroscience and psychology. That integration became the foundation for what we now call Leadership 2.0—a framework that helps leaders rewire limiting beliefs, overcome burnout, and lead with more confidence, purpose, and impact.

Too many leadership programs stay at the surface. We go deeper—into the mindset architecture that drives long-term behavior, performance, and change.

If you’re curious about what a mindset-first, science-backed approach to leadership really looks like, this article breaks it down in detail.

📖 Read the full feature here: https://www.managehrmagazine.com/elite-high-performance

06/10/2025

What if the biggest barrier to innovation… isn’t your budget, your tools, or your team—but your mindset? 🧠💥

🎧 Full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rv26qf0keg

Had the opportunity to sit down with the CEO of Spring2Innovation, Nilufer Erdebil, on this week’s The Leadership Launchpad Project, and let me tell you—this conversation is a must-listen if you’re serious about evolving your leadership impact game in 2025 and beyond. 🚀

We unpacked:
🔓 The hidden mindset traps that are keeping even high-performers stuck in outdated patterns
🛠 Why empathy and alignment (not hustle and grind) are the real power tools for innovation in this next era
🧭 How leading with clarity and purpose creates far more lift than pressure ever will
💡 Real stories of teams who drove more innovation by doing less, but better
We are entering a new chapter in business—one that demands leaders rethink how they lead, how they innovate, and most importantly… how they show up for their people.

If you’re ready to stop reacting and start intentionally leading innovation from the inside out… this one’s for you.

Ready to transform your leadership mindset? Book your free consultation now https://elitehighperformance.mykajabi.com/book-a-free-consultation

Why Most Leaders Fail at Innovation—And How to Fix ItDiscover the hidden mindset blocks holding leaders back from real innovation—and what it really takes to...

06/03/2025

What does it really take to be a brave leader in today’s uncertain world?
Watch the full Podcast: https://youtu.be/Ez9MLoqouNg

In the latest episode of The Leadership Launchpad Project, my incredible co-hosts Liane Wansbrough , Shelley West, and I sat down with the inspiring Jill Schulman — former U.S. Marine Corps officer and leadership development expert — to unpack what fearless leadership looks like in real life.

We dived deep into:
- The psychology of brave leadership
- How to lead through uncertainty
- Daily habits that build confidence and courage
- What business leaders can learn from the military
- And why discomfort is exactly where growth begins

Jill’s practical wisdom around mindset, resilience, and “doing hard things” is a must-listen for anyone navigating change, challenge, or self-doubt in a leadership role.

🎧 If you're ready to stop playing it safe and start leading with courage — this episode is for you.

👉 Catch the full episode & let us know: What’s one brave action you’re taking this week?

Ready to level up your leadership mindset?
👉 Book your free consultation now.
https://www.elitehighperformance.com/consultation/