The Illumify Game Changer Podcast
Follow one leader through The Illumify Game Changer, question by question, as the change most meaningful to him comes into focus, along with the words and actions to ignite it.
Welcome to The Illumify® Game Changer Podcast
The power to ignite meaningful change
When you look at your world, do you see, or sense, that what is now could be different, better, in some way? And that changing it would matter not just to you but to others as well? So much that you could be willing to lead the way to realizing that change?
This podcast is your opportunity to experience what has proven to be a real game-changer for leaders.
It reveals to you how to “illumify” through a card game comprised of 57 big questions that transcend leadership emergence into leadership effectiveness.
The Illumify Game Changer Podcast is hosted by Marianne Gobeil, Founder and CEO of Illumify Inc. She is an internationally award-winning expert on expressing high impact leadership with over 25 years of experience working with C-suite executives and other leaders around the world.
Season 1
Accompany one person, Jonathan Hill, as he answers one of The Illumify Game Changer questions every episode. Marianne and her team facilitate the unique conversations that guides him with care through his leadership transformation.
This is your front row seat to Jonathan’s journey from, in his own words, “not a leader” to a leader with a big vision, ultimately willing and able to ignite his meaningful change.
As you listen, you can apply these Illumify Game Changer questions to igniting your own meaningful change.
Podcast Episodes
Having completed all 57 questions in The Illumify Game Changer, Jonathan looks back on the experience and ahead to what comes next. He reflects on why the questions became necessary, how his vast vision became more tangible, and why the process changed not only how he could express his vision, but how he sees himself. Marianne and Jonathan consider the distinction between leadership emergence and leadership effectiveness, the power of rigorous conversation and self-examination, and what it means to leave The Illumify Game Changer fully equipped to begin the much larger work of igniting meaningful change.
02:09 Why every question is necessary
07:05 Testing and grounding the vision
10:06 Putting a face on the people the vision must reach
12:06 The tension between a deeply personal vision and the real world
15:23 Becoming ready to bring others into the vision
16:17 Validity, viability, and trusting what is true
18:33 When the intolerable demands action
21:17 Does Jonathan now see himself as a leader?
22:08 Leadership begins with language
24:29 The leader’s relationship with the collective and the vision
29:32 Does Jonathan feel like a leader now?
30:47 Leadership emergence versus leadership effectiveness
33:50 Preparing for effectiveness before entering the real world
39:30 How the Game Changer changed Jonathan
40:51 The power and rigour of conversation
44:26 What can the Illumify Game Changer be compared to?
49:28 A form of self-examination
51:06 Conversation as a collective act of imagination
54:06 Each question as a blank page
57:33 What comes next?
1:00:44 Jonathan shares his vision
1:01:45 Who would Jonathan recommend the Game Changer to?
Produced by NOVA
What people are saying about The Illumify Game Changer Podcast
The Illumify Game Changer is the most intense, demanding, and rewarding method of self-development that I have ever undertaken. Emerging from 80 hours of conversation, exploration, introspection, and debate, I felt a deep sense of renewal and confidence. I could see my vision and why I believed in it.
The intellectual rigor and emotional honesty of Illumify – 57 carefully phrased questions that ask us to dig deep and then deeper again, so that we reveal to ourselves how we truly see the world and how we want to change it – are rooted in the years of research and thinking that Marianne Gobeil put into the method. We are in safe hands.
Whether you are a senior corporate executive, management consultant, political advisor, NGO activist, entrepreneur, or someone taking a pause between jobs, the Illumify Game Changer will help you to find your vision, express it, define it, and then take the first steps that will bring it to life.
Jonathan Hill, Founder, The Common Good, and Speechwriter to the President European Commission 2015-16
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Play The Illumify Game Changer
This unique card game distills The Illumify Method into a collection of questions that have the power to transform you, your leadership, and your leadership initiatives.
