What would your workday feel like if you got to lead as yourself, at your own volume? Quiet leaders bring depth, focus, and real care to their teams, and they deserve workplaces built with them in mind.
Dawn Hunter sits down with Alex Jack, executive coach who specializes in nurturing resilient, emotionally intelligent leaders through his Quiet Influence (QI) leadership program. The two first met in the back row at Disrupt HR Tampa, and this conversation covers a lot of ground: growing up between the Netherlands and St. Martin, what belonging really feels like, judgment-free curiosity, and a gratitude journal challenge that retrains your attention.
Alex also shares why emotions are messengers worth listening to, why rest is something every living thing needs, and how a chessboard taught him that the same strengths can work for you or against you depending on how you use them.
Alex leaves listeners with this: joy is strategic because depletion is expensive.
🎶Alex's contribution to the Work is Third Soundtrack: Give Up The Funk by Parliament
📚 Guest Info
Facebook: I Am Alex Jack
LinkedIn: Alex Jack
Instagram: i.am.alex.jack
TikTok: iamalexjack
📚 Resources Mentioned
Disrupt HR, a global event series (Tampa chapter)
The Corporate Introvert by Steven Friedman
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
CliftonStrengths (StrengthsFinder) from Gallup
Brené Brown on fitting in and belonging (The Gifts of Imperfection, Braving the Wilderness)
Don’t Think of an Elephant! by George Lakoff
Julia by Sandra Newman, a retelling of George Orwell’s 1984
“No one ever steps in the same river twice”, attributed to Heraclitus
Gratitude journaling, inspired by O, The Oprah Magazine
Urmi Hossein’s episode of Work Is Third: Friends, Mentors, and Friendtors | Investing in Yourself With Urmi Hossain
Curious how strong your boundaries are? Take the free Workplace Boundary Audit to learn your boundary leadership style.
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