What started out as a birthday surprise from her husband, turned into a harrowing moment of faith over fear. Near the end of a fun afternoon of zip-lining, Olalah got stuck mid-zip in the bow of the longest zip of the course. She dangled hundreds of feet in mid-air as her husband and the zip guides watched in disbelief from the safety of the platform. Olalah was stuck. Her hand break slipped and slowed the momentum of her ascend to a crawl. The zip guides yelled something, but all Olalah could make out was the words, "Come get you?". She motioned back to them. She was going to do a self-rescue; a technique she had only learned that day during the pre-zip safety check. Olalah knew it would be daunting. To ascend to the platform, she would have to turn around backward and pull the dead weight of her whole body using all of her upper body strength. Slowly, she began the trek . . . one-hand-and-count, one-hand-and-count, one-hand-and-count, she chanted to herself. Then, she felt someone tugging her gear. She had ascended to the platform - greeted by an anxious, but excited husband and zip crew. Here's her comparison to leadership . . .
GET TO KNOW OLALAH: A PURPLE-LOVING, PEPSI® DRINKING, HIGH-FUNCTIONING INTROVERT
Status: Married, adult children
Pets: A Havanese (with attitude)
Travels From: RDU
Favorite Color: Purple
Favorite Season: Fall
Favorite Flower:Tulip
Favorite Food: Salmon
Favorite Drink: Pepsi®
Sweet or Salty: Both
Recreation: Daydreaming
Zodiac: Virgo
Superpower: Sees what's hiding in plain sight
DISC: D/I and D/C
MBTI: INTJ
Clifton Strengths Top 5:
1. Strategic
2. Individualization
3. Intellection
4. Self-Assurance
5. Input
Meaning of Her First Name: Nothing. It was her father's grand idea (she's still in therapy for it)
Best Advice She's Received: Don't share your big dreams with small minds
Best Advice She's Given: Hire people who can help you solve tomorrow's problems today
Personal Mantra: How you treat people matters
Olalah is an award-winning entrepreneur and an accomplished business strategist who fuels and accelerates momentum to help business leaders win with strategy. A role she says was divinely designed for her. Olalah also serves in several national and state leadership roles where she represents the legislative interests of the small business economy.
Her impressive list of awards and recognitions is lengthy. To her credit, that list includes several lifetime achievement honors, including being a North Carolina Woman Business Owner Hall of Fame Inductee, a Triangle Business Journal Woman In Business recipient, a Woman Business Owner of the Year by the National Association of Women Business Owners, a Lewis Shattuck Small Business Advocate of the Year by the National Small Business Association, and a 100 Women To Know In America by JP Morgan Chase.
Olalah delivers practical and purposeful messages to all kinds of audiences across the globe. Her stage presence makes you feel like you are sitting in the comfort of her living room. She likes to think of her performances as conversations with friends. Olalah uses bits of humor, facial expressions, well-timed sarcasm, and occasional random acts of dancing to deliver both a great message and a great experience for her audience. While she has been known to break a few fire codes with record attendance, she freely shares that taking improvisation classes at a comedy club is how she learned to manage her introversion and ease her stage fright. Whether she’s presenting a business strategy topic or a life strategy one, Olalah’s intention is always the same - enlighten and empower people to be better humans.
"Your talent is how you make a living. Your gift is how you make a difference." #olalahism
Designed for business owners, leaders, and board members, the Strategy Is A Verb™ presentation equips leaders with a blueprint to pursue what matters most while safeguarding the momentum required to achieve it.
In The Race For Relevance presentation, business owners, leaders, and board members will delve into the pursuit of being and staying relevant in today's dynamic climate. You'll depart with a strategy that emphasizes agility and proactive leadership.
Delivering deep insights into effective leadership styles, impactful management techniques, and winning strategies, the Leading, Managing & Winning presentation equips leaders with know-how to foster a culture that drives meaningful growth.
With a bit of a satirical edge, It's Always 72 And Sunny, Right? is a pragmatic approach for leaders who find themselves managing an inter-personal team climate with a whole lot of "personal affinities" - a climate that is slowing, and sometimes derailing, real progress.
By celebrating the strengths of introverts, The Quiet Energy of Introverts presentation challenges conventional notions of success and underscores the unique gifts of introverted people - creativity, thoughtfulness, and perception.
Encouraging an enlightened and integrated approach to the art of being, the Embracing Ascension™ presentation introduces the concept of expansion and elevation within the spectrum of our personal, professional, physical, and spiritual existence.
GUIDED & OUTCOME-FOCUSED: You get Olalah's full, undivided attention in a half-day or full-day experience to capture your 30K-foot vision/goal/dream/idea and transform it - live, in real time - into an actionable framework to support immediate traction.
FRACTIONAL & FLEXIBLE: An exclusive experience offered to only 5 clients per year, Olalah will work alongside your executive team or board members to integrate organizational shifts, operational constraints, and succession efforts to safeguard the momentum required to fuel ambitious objectives.
Olalah brings 20+ years of small business economy experiences and insights to provocative discussions ranging from strategy and augmented intelligence, to leading through uncertainty and the future of work. A champion for the voice of America's small business, Olalah aims to equip business owners with practical tools and insightful perspectives to ensure they continue to thrive in today's dynamic landscape.
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