Lee Jones - Growth Director #315
Lee Jones on Mindset, Accountability, and Building Elevate Performance Through Adversity
Host Savia Rocks welcomes Lee Jones, growth director and co-founder of Elevate Performance, a behavioral change consultancy that helps organizations improve leadership, conversations, culture, inclusion, and psychological safety. Lee shares growing up in social housing with hardworking parents, a troubled teenage period, and a life-changing spinal tumor operation at 21 that left him temporarily paralyzed, followed by intensive rehab that enabled him to walk and return to football as a team captain.
He discusses how accountability and mindset shaped his career progression, including taking initiative in early corporate roles, and later leaving corporate life after bullying. Lee describes starting Elevate with seven partners during COVID, pivoting toward leadership and inclusion work, and building purpose-led partnerships and clients.
He also speaks candidly about depression, anxiety, mindfulness, men’s emotional openness, “control the controllables,” defining success through family moments, and where to find him via elevate.co.uk and LinkedIn.
00:00 Welcome to Us People Podcast
01:20 Meet Lee Jones
03:26 Growing Up and Drive
05:50 Spinal Tumor Turning Point
09:11 Mindset and Career Rise
11:16 Fight or Flight Moment
15:06 Mirror and Mental Health
21:16 Men and Emotions
28:14 Building Elevate Performance
33:58 Purpose Led Startup
39:24 Redefining Success
40:58 Who Gave Me A Chance
41:34 School Pivot And ADHD
43:54 Career Breaks And Elevate
45:38 Excluded And Taking It Personally
49:48 Needy Or Human
52:55 Desert Island Picks
55:19 Control The Controllables
58:21 Circle Of Influence Story
59:43 Feeling Peace Right Now
01:01:58 Armor And Self Protection
01:03:24 Where To Find Lee
01:04:56 Final Thanks And Sign Off
01:06:25 Outro Song And Credits
Website: https://elev-8.co.uk/
Thank you so much Lee for coming on the show and sharing with us a story that people can relate too. regardless of our background there is so much that people don't see - Savia Rocks
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