Leadership Greater Topeka | Graham Moulden
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What is the biggest professional goal you have accomplished?
Seeing someone who enlisted grow into a professional and seeing their success. In 2018, I was able to award several of my troops on a deployment in the Middle East.
What do you love most about your work?
Traveling, learning about different cultures, and trying to understand life through a different lens.
What has been your biggest Aha! moment?
Realizing everyone walks their own path, some are harder than others, but can be much more rewarding.
What is one word you would use to describe yourself?
Congenial. I can remember not being popular in my adolescence, and now realize how little that matters in the real world. I have grown so much from rallying outcasts and proposing inclusion.
What do you do for fun?
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Legos with my kids.
What is your favorite app?
Spotify, it can help me get out of a bad mood, and help elevate a good mood
How have you evolved and grown during your career?
Growing into a better mentee and mentor. Learning from my mistakes has helped me greatly in assisting with life choices for my military family.
What is something you wish someone had told you during your career journey?
Be prepared to let your people lean on you as much as you have them. Collaboration is everything.
Don’t be afraid to change paths, progression isn’t a straight line.
What should one never take for granted?
Time
What is one piece of advice that has served you well in your journey and who did you get it from?
Do not be too quick to judge. You never know what someone is going through. A mentor I had no idea was going through one of the hardest times of their life.
What are you grateful for?
The love and support of my wife and two children for both my professional career and hobbies.
What is your leadership style?
Transformational
What motivates you?
My family.
What’s the last series you binge-watched?
Falcon and Winter Soldier
What would we mostly likely see you doing on a weekend?
Fishing in the summer, working on a project
If you could choose one superhuman ability, what would it be?
The power to heal someone.
What should one never take for granted?
Time
What advice has served you well in your journey?
“Be the leader you wish you had.” - Simon Sineck
What characteristic do you most admire in others and why?
Genuine honesty. However brutal, it’s more helpful than the candy-coated version.
What music artist do you never get tired of?
Jelly Roll
What is your most used emoji?
🤘🏼
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