The Connected Leadership Podcast: 'Building Strong Partnerships' LaTonya Kilpatrick

This week’s Connected Leadership Podcast focuses on a very important topic for many leaders; the relationships that are integral to building strong partnerships Internal or external to your organisation, strong trusted relationships can be the difference between the success and failure of projects. Andy Lopata’s guest is very strong at building these partnerships in her role at Colgate Palmolive leading a group of scientific researchers.  LaTonya Kilpatrick is also a passionate mentor for engaging children with science at an early age Andy and LaTonya discuss the importance of building good partnerships between diverse areas of expertise where both sides perceive the value derived from working together. This involves good communication and transparency where appropriate and particularly recognition of the contribution.  It is interesting to get LaTonya's perspective on key points of adapting language, research into the other person’s need and particularly the importance of gratitude