When you’re in conversation with individuals from your team, your customers, or your community, how (and why) are you listening? “Are you listening to control or listening to connect?” ~ Dan Warmenhoven, Former Chairman & CEO, NetApp For business and community leaders, you have to get buy-in to mobilize your organization or your movement. When …
Being a Thoughtful Leader requires more, and less, of you than traditional leadership. While leadership inherently means you need to lead people to fresh results and a transformation experience, it’s also about HOW you make things happen. This means it is essential, as a Thoughtful Leader, to match your demeanor to the circumstances, balance the …
“Where do we go from here?” For many, we are at a disheartening, confusing and infuriating point in history as people navigate a pandemic, a change in home and work-life, social distancing, protests and senseless acts of murder. There is an emergence and releasing of collective and communal trauma. That said, this is also the …
Master 3 Power Conversations to Deepen Trust, Cultivate Empathy and Initiate Change Read More »
It is time for a shift in the conversations we have with ourselves and with those around us. It’s time to have conversations that uplift people, inspire people, appreciate people, and respect people. As someone who belongs to communities that have been both marginalized and looked down upon, I know what it’s like to not …
Are You Having Conversations That Inspire & Uplift Those Around You? Read More »
Have you ever felt like you’ve sacrificed some aspect of yourself or your life that’s important to you for the sake of “more success” or “creating a better life?” It could be your health. It could be your relationship. It could be your peace of mind. Or it could be your overall joy and happiness. …
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others …
“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” ~ Nelson Mandela Traditional leadership has always rested on power and authority as the leading edge but true leaders inspire through passion – the power and authority are valuable by-products …
Your business is calling you out! It’s asking you to step into your next level of greatness, and you can’t ignore it! Owning, running and growing your business can be one of the scariest and most exhilarating things you could ever do. You’re the one calling all the shots, but for better or worse, your …
Dear Business Leaders…You’re Not Allowed to Hide Anymore! Read More »
