Humor and Other Leadership Skills You Use More as Your Career Grows

In Chapter 10 of 20 in her 2013 Capture Your Flag interview, social entrepreneur Courtney Spence answers "What Skills Are You Using More As Your Career Advances?" Spence embraces humor - in particular learning not to take herself so seriously - and finds it incredibly helpful in her professional development as a nonprofit leader. She sets goals to develop stronger relationships and learns to hand off responsibility and put the right team members in the right places. Social entrepreneur and storyteller Courtney Spence founded 501c3 nonprofit Students of the World (SOW) to shine a light on progress and celebrate the world's problem solvers. She is building a movement of next-generation storytellers and creative activists through the SOW program The Creative Activist Network. Spence is a graduate of Duke University.