Tanja Bogataj

Tanja Bogataj, MM.Sc., is a globally recognised visionary leadership coach, consultant, and educator at Amora Leadership. With a distinguished background spanning law, public policy, management, and leadership, she brings over 25 years of expertise in guiding leaders, teams, and organisations toward transformational success. As the founder of the #bepowerfulandfree® leadership philosophy, Tanja has empowered countless executives and changemakers to unlock their visionary potential and align their mindset and skillset with purposeful action. Her leadership approach is grounded in resilience, clarity, and impact, helping leaders navigate complexity with confidence. Combining academic insight with lived experience, Tanja equips her clients with the tools, strategies, and mindset to become future-ready leaders who not only achieve results but also create lasting positive influence in their organisations and communities.

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What does it take to successfully bring a vision to life in leadership?

In this episode of Talking with the Experts, Rose Davidson is joined by Tanja Bogataj, MM.Sc., a leadership coach, consultant, and educator at Amora Leadership. With over 25 years of experience spanning law, public policy, management, and leadership, Tanja has developed a unique philosophy and framework for empowering leaders to align their vision with action.

Tanja is the creator of the #bepowerfulandfree® approach, which equips leaders with the mindset, skillset, and resilience needed to thrive in complex and fast-changing environments. She has worked extensively with executives, entrepreneurs, and changemakers, helping them uncover their visionary potential and step into leadership with confidence.

In this powerful conversation, Tanja reveals how leaders can:

• Unlock their inner visionary potential
• Develop a resilient visionary mindset
• Apply three strategies to build and leverage their visionary skillset

This episode is perfect for business owners, leaders, and entrepreneurs looking to strengthen their leadership impact and achieve sustainable success. If you’ve ever wondered how to bridge the gap between vision and execution, this conversation will provide the clarity, strategies, and inspiration you need.

📌 Three Key Takeaways

1. How to unlock your inner visionary potential.
2. How to develop and cultivate a resilient visionary mindset.
3. Three strategies to develop and leverage your visionary skillset.

Tanja’s Professional Background and Career Journey

• Tanja serves as a visionary leadership coach, leadership consultant and educator at Amora Leadership with expertise in law, public policy, management and leadership spanning 25 years of professional experience
• Her career development involved extensive learning, studying, working and testing different approaches while gaining insights from both successes and failures across various teams and circumstances
• The transition from law and public policy to coaching began with her passion for understanding how different stakeholders with opposing interests can collaborate to create better outcomes for today and tomorrow
• Coaching discovery occurred in 2011 when she identified it as her future profession, leading to nine years of preparation before making the entrepreneurial shift eight years ago
• Business aspects required significant learning including finding her niche, which ultimately led to specialization in visionary leadership coaching 

Leadership Development and Self-Leadership Principles

• Self-leadership forms the foundation for effectively leading others, as individuals cannot be great leaders of people without first mastering leadership of themselves
• Leadership roles come with enormous expectations and assumptions that leaders already possess all necessary knowledge and skills for immediate delivery
• Transformation occurs naturally as leaders step into roles and grow with them, particularly when creating something new or developing teams
• Continuous learning and growth becomes essential for leaders to meet the needs of their teams, vision and company both today and in the future 

Three Core Strategies for Developing Visionary Skill Sets

• Strategy development focuses on three key coaching questions to prevent leaders from becoming stuck, complacent or drained by their vision
• First strategy involves identifying what blocks, blurs or weighs down the vision, as these factors limit potential for leaders, teams and companies
• “Flip the script” technique encourages leaders to examine situations with fresh eyes, as if observing someone else’s challenges rather than their own
• Strategic thinking time must be scheduled regularly to maintain alignment between short-term actions and long-term vision
• Second strategy utilizes bridge metaphors to address gaps between current position and desired destination, examining individual contributions to team success
• Bridge-building versus bridge-burning behaviors can create or destroy opportunities for entrepreneurs and their organizations
• Third strategy emphasizes creating the future from present resources rather than limiting decisions based on past experiences or failures 

Vision Refresh and Adaptability in Business

• Regular questioning of successful methods becomes necessary since what brought previous success may not achieve future goals
• Agility in self-leadership and business operations requires openness to discovering better approaches and implementing new strategies
• Maya Angelou’s principle of doing your best with current knowledge and improving when you know better often goes unimplemented in practice
• Habit and behavior modification supports the future vision, requiring conscious decisions and daily practice to break established patterns
• Market relevance demands adjustment to provide value that audiences currently seek, even when it means changing comfortable routines 

Support Systems and Resource Management for Entrepreneurs

• Athletes benefit from extensive support teams while competing, providing perspective that performers cannot see while actively engaged in their activities
• Entrepreneurs often struggle with resource allocation decisions regarding support services, potentially limiting their growth and ability to serve their intended audience
• Content creators and podcasts provide accessible knowledge in digestible formats, offering practical strategies and inspiration for business leaders
• Remote leadership challenges during COVID highlighted the need for flexible coaching approaches, including recorded content for busy schedules
• Belief changes often precede behavioral changes, making mindset shifts more impactful than extensive action plans for business transformation 

Next Steps

• Tanja will launch a new visionary accelerator group coaching program in September focused on personal leadership growth for business, team and life applications
• Interested participants can connect with her on LinkedIn for detailed information about the upcoming cohort and program requirements

• Tanja Bogataj serves as a visionary leadership coach, leadership consultant and educator at Amora Leadership with 25 years of professional experience in designing, developing and leading teams and projects across law, public policy, management and leadership.
• Bogataj’s career transition from public policy and law to coaching began in 2011 when she discovered coaching as her future profession, eventually making the entrepreneurial shift eight years ago to specialize in visionary leadership coaching.
• Entrepreneurs often face burnout and lose passion after years of building their businesses, leading to questions about what comes next and requiring support to pivot, reinvent and develop new visions for the future.
• Self-leadership serves as a prerequisite for effective leadership of others, requiring continuous learning and growth to become the leader that teams, visions and companies need today and in the future.
• Three core strategies for developing visionary skill sets focus on identifying what blocks, blurs, or drains vision, as these factors limit potential for leaders, teams and companies.
• Flipping the script involves examining situations with fresh eyes as if observing someone else’s challenges, which expands awareness and creates opportunities for better actions and solutions.
• Bridge metaphors help visualize the gap between current position and desired destination, requiring assessment of individual contributions to team stability and collective bridge-building efforts.
• Creating the future requires utilizing present-moment resources rather than limiting possibilities based on past experiences, as entrepreneurs often restrict their vision based on previous rejections or failures.
• Agility in questioning successful methods becomes essential since what got organizations to their current position may not be sufficient for future growth and adaptation.
• Maya Angelou’s principle of doing your best with current knowledge and improving when you know better requires catching habitual behaviors and developing new ones to support desired futures.
• Support systems prove vital for entrepreneurs, similar to how athletes rely on strong support teams, as being immersed in daily operations limits perspective on necessary adjustments and improvements.
• Content creators provide valuable knowledge in accessible formats, helping overwhelmed leaders access coaching insights and inspiration during brief moments throughout their busy schedules.
• Bogataj promotes her Visionary Accelerator mastermind group coaching program launching in September, focusing on personal leadership growth for business, team and life applications.

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