ELIAS KANARIS
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“As a conscious leader, make sure that you don’t make
rash promises that you will be unable to deliver on at
the start of a relationship.”
be doing yourself a lot of damage. As
Richard Goyder, Managing Director,
Wesfarmers, Australia said “When
we measure success, clearly we look
at the financial performance: our
profits, our cash flows, our return
on capital or equity, our dividends
to our stockholders.
But at the end of the day, the most
important measure for me is our
reputation.”
Make sure that you lead your people
ethically and get them to buy into
your culture, which includes your
values, ethics and codes of conduct.
This way you can be a survivor and
leave a profitable legacy.
About the Author
Elias Kanaris is a thought leader in the area of lead-
ership and team building, specialising on the topics
of cultivating values-based leadership, developing
trust and making more profit.
With over 25 years’ experience in sales and market-
ing roles (culminating as a senior consultant in the
Telecommunications & IT sector), Elias has used that
experience to understand how to develop C-level
connections and to transition relationships from
‘commodity supplier’ to ‘trusted advisor’. He was
part of a team that serviced 24 clients, turning over
$450M per annum for his company. To give some
context, the next 3,200 clients COMBINED billing was
slightly over twice as much at $1B.
Elias is the CEO and Founder of the Global CEO
Summit and is a Founding Member of the Conscious
Leadership Movement. He is passionate about tack-
ling the issues caused by the lack of trust with busi-
nesses and is providing mechanisms to empower
CEOs and their leadership teams to address this gap.
Elias is the Vice President with the Global Speakers
Federation (GSF) and is the Immediate Past
President of the National Speakers Association of
New Zealand (NSANZ). He is also a Founding Partner
of the John Maxwell Team (where he served on the
President’s Advisory Council).
His latest book, ‘Liberating Your Leadership
Potential: Changing self-limiting beliefs to lead your
team, organisation or country with influence’ allows
the reader to apply Nelson Mandela’s character
traits and wisdom to lead more effectively.
LEAD | January 2018