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Resilience S.O.S.: How to Prepare Before the Pressure Hits

Editor’s Note (Updated May 2025): This piece was originally written in June 2021, during the whirlwind of my son’s high school graduation and the uncertainty of a global pandemic. Now, as I revisit it in the midst of his college graduation—and an equally full season of life and business—I’m reminded that resilience isn’t a one-time lesson, but a lifelong practice. The insights remain just as relevant, if not more so, as I continue to lead, grow, and navigate change. Because [...]

By |2025-05-22T14:30:04-05:00May 22nd, 2025|Leading|0 Comments
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How Patterns Can Help You Discover Your Leadership Superpower

As a self-confessed Marvel geek, I love seeing the transformation of ‘ordinary Joe/Jo’ into superhero and I believe that while we can’t all scale buildings and win intergalactic battles, we do all have a unique leadership superpower – some capacity, skill or quality that sets us apart and elevates organizational performance. However, unlocking our true heroic potential requires looking inward first and a great place to start is by analyzing our impact patterns.  […]

By |2024-04-03T00:19:01-05:00April 3rd, 2024|Leading|0 Comments
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The Power of Recognition: We all need to feel seen

Do your employees feel genuinely valued and seen for their contributions? If not, their performance and morale may falter no matter their natural drive. I wrote recently about reigniting a dimmed spark with insights for leaders on how to increase motivation and I want to go deeper on one important facet of motivation that is within the capability and control of every leader and manager: Recognition. […]

By |2024-03-04T17:08:30-06:00March 4th, 2024|Leading|0 Comments
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Reigniting a ‘dimmed spark’

As leaders, few challenges rival trying to motivate a disengaged or unmotivated employee. In fact, it’s my belief and experience that you can only create the conditions for people to feel motivated – you cannot control their internal drivers. This is, however, a moment for your leadership influence to shine and it’s vitally important when you do have demotivated people on your team to identify it and act quickly, because the apathy of one individual is capable of dragging on [...]

By |2024-01-24T03:13:58-06:00January 24th, 2024|Leading|0 Comments
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Purpose congruence for next-level performance

I’ve written about purpose before, in fact my book, What’s Your Catalyst?, is an essential guide to uncovering and leveraging our purpose to drive change. I’ve been re-exploring the role of purpose in today’s context and joining the dots between individual employees and the overall organizational purpose is proving to pay dividends.  […]

By |2023-12-07T04:17:15-06:00December 7th, 2023|Leading|0 Comments
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What’s Emotional Intelligence Got To Do With Leadership?

These are times of heightened emotions.  What we are seeing, hearing and experiencing is through our emotions.  I have studied, written about and applied emotional intelligence throughout my life and career, (sometimes without even realizing it at the time) to the point that it is embedded in my practice. However, it always serves us to take a step back, consider the current context and expand our understanding. To that end, let’s unpack: What has emotional intelligence got to do with [...]

By |2025-05-07T15:13:02-05:00November 1st, 2023|Leading|0 Comments
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Investing in Leadership Development: A Strategic Imperative for Now and the Future

In our rapidly evolving corporate landscape, effective leadership has emerged as the linchpin for sustainable success. But what is effective leadership? It’s leadership that gets results. That is sustainable and strategic. Leadership that is building a better future for the organization and its stakeholders. In simpler terms, it is also well prepared leadership: agile, adaptable and responsive to changing needs.  […]

By |2023-08-01T09:18:09-05:00July 27th, 2023|Leading|0 Comments
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Beyond resilience – boosting organizational agility

I spoke recently at an executive summit on the subject of organizational resilience. After I’d shared my insights and experiences I gave the audience key prompts and they worked in groups to discuss their organizational resilience. There was a great buzz about the room as we connected the dots between purpose and performance, weaving in emotional intelligence and the ability to spot and act on opportunities to create a picture of what organizational resilience looks like in action.  [...]

By |2023-08-01T09:18:13-05:00May 24th, 2023|Leading|0 Comments
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Why a growth mindset is your ultimate leadership advantage

We work our bodies – we push them to achieve more, to be stronger, faster. Sometimes we are able to do more than we can imagine, especially when we surround ourselves with a great team of trainers, nutritionists, doctors and so on. Not so for our mind. When was the last time you intentionally gave your mind a good workout?  […]

By |2023-08-01T09:18:14-05:00May 9th, 2023|Leading|0 Comments
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Transformational leadership versus transactional leadership

What’s your leadership style? In my experience, leaders can fall into two broad camps: transactional leadership and transformational leadership. But before we dig into these two styles, if you’re not sure of your style here’s some actions you can take for more clarity: […]

By |2023-08-01T09:18:15-05:00April 24th, 2023|Leading|0 Comments
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