Category Archives: Leadership Thoughts

Hello, May!  May is a fun month - there's Mother's Day, the end of the school year or semester for many students, Memorial Day (here in the United States), wedding...

Last month I had the pleasure of working with Global Leaders from Warner Bros. Discovery, unpacking the concepts around "Presence" - defining presence, exploring factors that sabotage presence, examining the...

Shazam! (Shout out to Shaq!) The comments I received back from my 80s, pop-culture, music-inspired, Thought Partner 3 Techniques to Improve Your Meetings, were so fun to read! I'm thrilled to...

Last week we discussed how you can swap out the Pain for the Gain in your next 1:1 meeting. If you missed that Thought Partner, you can find it HERE....

In sticking with our theme of Creating More Effective Meetings this month, today we're going to take a closer look at how you can swap out the Pain for the...

Waaaaaaaaaay back in February of 2022...I wrote a Thought Partner titled The Four Stages of Psychological Safety. It's not too shabby so I encourage you to check it out (again,...

Rounding out this month's theme of Leadership Style exploration, let's discuss: 3 Ways to Activate your Strengths...TODAY!We talk a lot about strengths-based leadership, primarily because when we utilize our strengths, we have...

Last week we explored the first 4 Leadership Models presented in the book Models of Leadership in Plato and Beyond written by UVA Darden Professor Ed Freeman and Oxford Professor Dominic...

Most of us carry familiar titles that characterize the roles we play in our lives - manager, coach, parent, doctor, attorney, vice president, etc...but it's not often we peel those...

Last Friday we examined the key to motivation. If you missed that Thought Partner, you can find it HERE. This week's Thought Partner was "inspired" aka appropriated from a mentor-of-sorts...