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June 11, 2025
Leadership Development Through Failure: The Backroad to Brilliance What Great Leaders Do Differently One of the names for discovery is failure. Another of its names […]
April 14, 2025
A major contributor to our habits and tendencies is our underlying sensation patterns. All Humans Are Semi-Conscious of What Drives Us Imagine you are on a […]
March 9, 2025
The Power of Conversations in the Age of AI: The One Skill That Won’t Be Automated The Machine That Never Blinked In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue […]
December 23, 2024
Does who we are inform how we are? When working with clients, we often say that “Presence is the first act of leadership.” What we […]
December 9, 2024
I was working with a client recently, a group of about 10 leaders responsible for choosing strategic priorities for their organization, and the were struggling to […]
November 7, 2024
Remember the good ol’ days when you could tell people what to do and they’d do it? Yeah, we don’t either. The reality is in most […]
October 27, 2024
As human beings, we have a mess of things that make being the best and most valuable version of ourselves a little complicated. We live in […]
October 7, 2024
The key to providing feedback – Check your assumptions at the door. As a leader, when you think about giving performance improvement feedback to your team […]
September 15, 2022
It’s a worn-out trope to say that everything, these days, is about “more,” and it’s worn out because it continues to create problems. As technology evolves […]
July 7, 2022
Besides being a consultant and leadership coach, I am a long-time ski instructor. Given the cyclical nature of ski season, it is easy for managers and […]
July 7, 2022
The past two years has taught us all a lot. As we begin the transition back to offices, in-person work, and hybrid ways of working together, […]
April 6, 2022
I think it would be fascinating to create a movie theater where each theater shows the story from a different perspective. You could pick and choose […]
March 7, 2022
This blog was co-authored by Patrick Kennedy & Robin Anselmi As our relationship to offices and space has evolved, we need to become more intentional about […]
February 14, 2022
In the last several years, our shared fundamental understanding of work has shifted significantly. The occurrence of a global pandemic forced immediate and enduring structural changes […]
December 14, 2021
Consider two versions of the same meeting. A task has just been identified, and it now falls to the group to figure out who can take […]
November 17, 2021
Have you ever been in a conversation and had the thought, “I can’t believe that I just shared that”? Or, perhaps you leave a conversation feeling […]
November 15, 2021
“I’m frustrated, burnt out, overwhelmed, exhausted, emotional, worried, have no work/life balance, always feel behind, disconnected, anxious, cannot focus, feel like I’m running on the hamster wheel of life.” Have you described yourself with […]
August 30, 2021
Being human is hard work—or rather, it can be hard at work. Walls of text, tightly managed calendars, and unending to-do lists can all make us feel like cogs […]
August 30, 2021
I read a brief “how-to” article recently in a newsletter. The advice focused on getting your phone calls returned and one of the highlighted tips reminded me why […]
August 30, 2021
Are you going backward or forward as life, work, and the world open up? I see it all over. Everyone is wrestling with the question of how best to “go back to” the office, travel, hanging out in groups. No matter what […]
July 23, 2021
As an Executive Coach, I hear leaders saying more and more often that they need to go “push back” on something—a decision, a plan, an idea. […]
May 2, 2017
How many times have you been in a place where you were willing to give up something you love due to a perception that it was […]
April 11, 2017
I’ve never been one who has believed in the maxim, “Don’t talk about politics or religion.” I get it, of course, and I see (and practice) […]