Self-awareness gets a lot of attention, but come to find the real secret sauce of leadership and in knowing thyself lies in meta-perception. What is meta-perception? It is the assumption you make based on how you think others see you. 

Professor Rachel Sturm explains the negative consequences that result from your under prediction of how you think others perceive you. All of the consequences affect your behavior which in turn limits your choices, affects how you lead, determines how you show up and what projects or roles you pursue at work and in life.

It’s not all doom and gloom though. Rachel gets into how empowering this can be for anyone interested in better understanding how they make decisions and how they perceive other people’s thoughts of them. 

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Professor Rachel Sturm teaches leadership courses at Wright State University, Ohio. As an award-winning professor she has been acknowledge for her excellence in research, teaching, and service. Rachel earned her Ph.D. from the University of Houston and a Bachelors in Psychology from Binghamton University. She has worked as a research assistant and is an active researcher in the topics of leadership, character and power. You can find many of her research articles here Google Scholar.

Things we cover in this episode:

• Rachel’s journey in becoming a leadership researcher and educator
• The importance of self-awareness
• What meta-perception is and how it shapes our behaviors and decisions
• The consequences of under predicting how you anticipate other’s opinions of you
• Ways to improve your meta-perception
• Self-sexism and its affects

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