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Unlock Your Potential Through Healing Your Past (feat. Doug Dane)

Unlock Your Potential Through Healing Your Past (feat. Doug Dane)

Adverse experiences and childhood wounds filter into our careers and leadership, influencing our potential.   Traumatic experiences may impose limitations on our personal and professional life. These limitations are often challenging to identify, and even more...

Bridging the Generational Divide at Work (feat. Chris Tuff)

Bridging the Generational Divide at Work (feat. Chris Tuff)

Generational differences impact workplace connection.   Nothing exposes this truth like the generational divide we see between Gen Xers, Millennials, and Gen Zers in the workplace. Gen Zers roll their eyes in frustration with their older colleagues and...

How Social Good is Good for Business (feat. Spring Washam)

How Social Good is Good for Business (feat. Spring Washam)

If you’re a leader who is only focused on profitability and productivity, consider that you might be doing just the bare minimum. The enlightened, modern leader is intentional about using their position to contribute to a more equitable organization.   Social...

The Importance of Prioritizing Yourself (feat. Tommy Breedlove)

The Importance of Prioritizing Yourself (feat. Tommy Breedlove)

High achievers are primed to buy into common misconceptions around happiness and fulfillment.   Traditional external markers of success – money, status, fame – cause leaders to focus on “more” and “when,” which actively robs them of actual fulfillment and...

How Do You Build Capacity In Your Teams? (feat. Bob Glazer)

How Do You Build Capacity In Your Teams? (feat. Bob Glazer)

If you’re not prioritizing capacity building on your team, you’re stunting its potential.    Leaders who are serious about building high performing teams achieve sustainable growth through capacity building. And yet what you may not know is effective capacity...

Navigating the Extraordinary Pace of Change (feat. Warren Rustand)

Navigating the Extraordinary Pace of Change (feat. Warren Rustand)

Rapid evolution is the only constant.    The pace of change in today's world is exponentially growing, as is its increasing complexity.    Driving factors such as artificial intelligence, the remote and hybrid workforce, and global sustainable business...

How to Improve Your Well-Being with Music (feat. Barry Goldstein)

How to Improve Your Well-Being with Music (feat. Barry Goldstein)

Music is more than a form of entertainment or artistic expression. It’s a powerful leadership tool and a resource for well-being.   Many of you know I’ve written a USA Today bestselling book on this very topic, The Leader’s Playlist: Unleash the Power of Music...

Practical Techniques for Building Trust (feat. Sue Dyer)

Practical Techniques for Building Trust (feat. Sue Dyer)

Experts talk about the importance of trust, but very few actually discuss how to build it.   Yet trust is a determining success factor and competitive advantage in today’s volatile environment.   Sue Dyer, MBA, MIPI is one of the world’s leading experts on...

Is the Music You are Listening to Helpful or Hurtful?

Is the Music You are Listening to Helpful or Hurtful?

When you listen to a song, the way you connect to it, the emotions it evokes in you, and the way that you interpret the meaning of the song, is an experience that is uniquely yours. One person may listen to a song and find it empowering and motivating. Another person...

The Making of a COO (feat. Cameron Herold)

The Making of a COO (feat. Cameron Herold)

The relationship between a CEO and a COO is akin to that of yin and yang. Each leader uses their unique abilities and interests to help the company grow, all while staying in their own lane.   The key is to find a truly compatible counterpart, build a foundation...

What Causes Happiness, and What Happiness Causes (feat. Robert Mack)

What Causes Happiness, and What Happiness Causes (feat. Robert Mack)

Did you know that, believe it or not, only about 10% of your happiness comes from outside conditions and circumstances?   Which means that 90% of your happiness is within your control, that you generate internally. Backed by 1000s of research studies spanning...

Getting Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable (feat. Nima George)

Getting Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable (feat. Nima George)

Most every business wants to be a beacon of diversity and inclusion. Yet, with the incoming workforce being more diverse than ever, why does this goal seem increasingly hard to achieve?    While it’s preached from the mouth of every CEO and VP, it seems that the...