Lolly Daskal
Lolly Daskal is a leadership coach, author and founder of Lead From Within who writes about self-awareness, trust and leading people through the rise of AI.
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Overview
- Work
- Executive coach, author, speaker and business consultant
- Company
- Founder of Lead From Within
- Based in
- New York City
- Signature book
- The Leadership Gap, published in 2017
- Online community
- Lead From Within leadership conversations on Twitter
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How it started.
Lolly traces her work back to being a child who kept asking why. In her Join Up Dots interview, she described how that curiosity led her to study psychology and philosophy, then to turn understanding people into a career helping them.
Finding a community.
She founded Lead From Within, a leadership coaching and consulting firm based in New York City. Her writing and weekly Twitter conversations brought those ideas to a wider audience. The Shorty Awards recognized that online work with a Business Influencer finalist place at its sixth annual awards.
The book.
Published by Portfolio in May 2017, The Leadership Gap examines seven leadership archetypes and the blind spots that can accompany their strengths. The book gives readers a way to notice when familiar habits are getting in their way.
What she is exploring now.
Her recent writing brings her coaching perspective to AI adoption. On her website and Substack, she asks how leaders can keep trust, judgment and responsibility at the center of decisions as their teams use new tools.
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Books
Articles
- 2025100 Lessons From Coaching Executives Through AI AdoptionWriter
- 2017The Seven Archetypes of Leadership (and the Gaps That Get in the Way of Greatness)Author, Leader to Leader
Awards
Quotes
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Trivia
- She told Join Up Dots that she loves opera and often goes by herself.
- In the same interview, she described choosing to strive for excellence rather than perfection in her early twenties.
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