Permission with Jillian Reilly
Permission is the internal authority we grant ourselves to act on what we already know we’re capable of. Not approval from someone else. Not a rule waiting to be broken. The quiet, personal green light that turns capability into action, and its absence is the real reason most remarkable ideas never leave the room.
“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.” Peter Drucker
Jill Reilly has spent thirty years working alongside people rebuilding after profound change from South Africa’s transition to democracy, to post-war Mozambique, post-conflict Kosovo, and Zimbabwe’s HIV/AIDS crisis. That work taught her a core insight: the gap between what people are capable of and what they actually achieve almost always comes down to permission, not capability.
Today she applies that lesson to organizations navigating AI-driven reinvention. Through the Ten Permissions framework, along with the Permissions Lab and the Hidden Handbrakes diagnostic, she helps individuals and teams move past efficiency thinking and build what wasn’t possible before.
Favorite snack is dry roasted almonds
Music-“Homesick” Copyright 2018. Written by Shireen Amini. Produced by Shireen Amini and Mike Davidson of Plaid Dog Recording (Boston, MA).
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