Slow down to speed up

Three end of year reflections every leader should make The end of the year often hits with a strange combination of urgency and exhaustion. Budgets need to be finalized. Reviews need to be completed. Projects that have been quiet all year suddenly become critical. People are juggling family schedules, travel, and holiday expectations. Leaders feel…

Read More

A 5:00 AM Text and a Lesson in Leadership

It’s the kind of message that makes your heart race. “Mom, are you awake?” A 5am text from your child. A wave of panic hit me. I called him immediately. It went straight to voicemail. Like any parent jolted awake before sunrise, my mind jumped straight to worst-case scenarios. I pulled up our shared location,…

Read More

Stop Talking. Start Communicating.

Most people think great communicators are the best talkers. The truth is, the best communicators are the best listeners. In conversations, we are often more focused on what we will say next rather than truly hearing the other person. We listen to respond instead of listening to understand. And in doing so, we miss opportunities…

Read More

The Power of Storytelling

  I just wrapped up an onboarding project that reminded me why storytelling matters—one that brought me back to an experience years ago when I first saw its impact in action. Too often, an employee’s first day is packed with paperwork, policies, and systems training. But no one joins a company excited about learning policies…

Read More

Leading with Love

As Valentine’s Day approaches, we often think of love as romantic gestures and heart-shaped chocolates. But love isn’t just for our personal lives. It’s also a powerful force in leadership. Leading with love is not about grand gestures but about making care and empathy the heart of what we do.  Leadership grounded in love builds trust,…

Read More

DID CURIOSITY REALLY KILL THAT CAT?!?

“Curiosity killed the cat” was a headline written in an Irish newspaper back in 1868. That phrase has become an old proverb which implies that there are significant dangers associated with investigation, experimentation, or asking too many questions. Over the next 150 years we would come to learn that it is the sheer “lack of”…

Read More