Sharna Fabiano - Lead & Follow

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Sharna Fabiano is an internationally recognized tango artist. Over the course of her twenty-year dance career, she toured over a dozen countries, designed partner-based movement courses for undergraduates, and founded a nonprofit tango school in Washington, DC. She is an outspoken advocate for the study of both leading and following roles independent of gender, a training practice that builds empathy, inclusion, and creativity. Sharna brings her deep understanding of the leader/follower dynamic in social dance into the professional sphere with original coaching programs that help professionals and teams collaborate more successfully. Sharna earned her MFA in dance from UCLA and lives in Los Angeles.

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• Sharna Fabiano - Connect, Collaborate, Create

Sharna's Latest Book

• Lead & Follow: The Dance of Inspired Teamwork

Sharna's Podcast

• Lead & Follow Podcast

Quotes From This Episode

• "My life as a social dancer showed me that superior work, not to mention the most satisfying work comes not from everyone leading all of the time, but from leaders and followers working together." 
• Leaders and Followers - "On either side, there needs to be that healthy commitment and engagement."
• "Power can be organized in a way that's more harmful/violent, or more supportive, protective, and nurturing...I think we're maybe always going to be on that spectrum somehow, as a human family."

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Book: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
• Book: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
• Film: The Inventor
• Film: LFG
• Film: wework
• Podcast: Gaslit Nation

About The International Leadership Association (ILA)

• The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals with a keen interest in the study, practice, and teaching of leadership. 

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