“That was the first moment I could look back and tangibly say I chose curiosity — and got a better outcome.” ~ Tyler Chisholm

We all have a curiosity origin story. What’s yours? CEO, author and marketing exec Tyler Chisholm’s happens to involve a pool cue.

Enriched by his experience in strategic growth-oriented marketing and as host of not one but two podcasts, Tyler polishes that first little nugget into robust guidance for leaders everywhere in his new book Curious as Hell,

We focused on the wonderfulness of rapport, self-curious leadership, mirroring and matching in podcasting as in life, the feeling of active listening and expansive questions, framing challenges as collaborative adventures, the power of story & metaphor — and why we should all be keeping curiosity journals on our bedside tables.

I really liked the version of me that showed up on the podcast because it wasn’t about me. It was always about the audience. It was always about making the guest the hero. The only reason I even felt competent/ confident/ clear/ concise to show up was I allowed myself to go, “Well, Tyler, why would you think you would have all the answers? The guest is the expert. Just be curious.“

Listen to Ep. 298: Curiosity Builds Rapport, with Tyler Chisholm

Tyler Chisholm is CEO of clearmotive, a podcast host, speaker, and author of Curious as Hell: Leading & Growing with Curiosity.

Get to the heart of economic changes happening in Calgary and Alberta with Tyler on his podcast Collisions YYC and explore lives of people who have taken the road less traveled with him on They Just Get It.

Want more on leadership? Check out these C2BC Classics: Leadership with Scott Nycum; Rebel Leadership, with Larry Robertson; Curiosity in the Workplace, with Alison Horstmeyer; and Leadership, Inclusion & Curiosity, with Karen Coltrane.

And, if you love thinking about media, rapport and storytelling, try these additional C2BC Classics: Curiosity & Community Media, with Antoine Haywood; The Ultimate Exercise in Curiosity, with Filmmaker Antonio Villaronga; and Storytelling: A Curious Tale, with Ronald Young, Jr.

Theme music by Sean Balick; “The Summit” by K2, via Blue Dot Sessions.

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