What feels like the longest summer ever is coming to an end. With the pandemic forcing a slowdown, our family swapped cross-country travel plans and sleep-away camps with late morning coffees on the deck, lazy kayak floats down the river, and s’mores roasted over our newly built firepit. Hollow space lies where so much activity used to rush and rumble…
Leaders rising from adverse experiences are testament to the beautiful resiliency of the human spirit. Testament that whatever has happened to you does not need to define you. Testament that pain and suffering can be transformed into wisdom and strength. Testament that the more who willingly surrender into this dance, the…
There are days as a business leader when you will tire, and your vision will fade. As sure as you will find your way, you will lose it. At least once, or twice, or dozens of time. This is part of your growth as a leader. Good leaders fail and fall often. This is how you learn. This is how you stay humble. When the darkness seeps in, it disorients…
Conscious leadership invites us into greater presence and attentiveness towards our movements, our options, and the impacts that rumble in our wake. It’s important work beyond the noise of immediacy, the endless “to do’s,” that pull at us day after day. In building capacity for self-reflection you’re able to lead with greater…
Monthly, as a Vistage Chair, I facilitate peer advisory boards where business owners, executives and CEOs support each other with their most complex strategic opportunities and leadership challenges. My job is to help group members interrupt executive tendencies to give advice or fix problems while generating a space where we can lead with more…
