Leadership & Culture

Self-Awareness: Listening Is Not Passive

Self-Awareness: Listening Is Not Passive

Listening isn't just something we do for others. Sometimes the most important conversation is the one happening within ourselves.

Words Are Contagious

Words Are Contagious

Every conversation plants a seed. The question is whether we're planting fear or hope, division or belonging, certainty or curiosity. Our wo...

Servant Leadership: The Leader as Domestique

Servant Leadership: The Leader as Domestique

The strongest leaders aren't always the ones out front. Inspired by the role of the domestique in professional cycling, this reflection expl...

The Best Leaders Help Us Become More Fully Ourselves

The Best Leaders Help Us Become More Fully Ourselves

Last week, I attended a farewell celebration for a leader who has deeply impacted my life, my work, and our organization over the last six y...

When Leaders Leave: Choosing Love Over Fear

When Leaders Leave: Choosing Love Over Fear

The moment I heard my mentor was leaving, fear asked one question: “What about me?” My promise to myself last year, after a long break from ...

Resume Virtues vs Eulogy Virtues: Building Character, Career, and Workplace Culture

Resume Virtues vs Eulogy Virtues: Building Character, Career, and Workplace Culture

Recently, I came across the idea of resume virtues vs eulogy virtues from David Brooks in The Road to Character , and it stopped me in my tr...

Old Testament vs. New Testament Hierarchy: Leadership Through Fear or Love

Old Testament vs. New Testament Hierarchy: Leadership Through Fear or Love

Many of us have lived under a particular kind of leadership hierarchy . One rooted more in fear than in trust. It’s the kind where leadershi...

Get on My Wheel! The Gift of Someone Who Believes in You

Get on My Wheel! The Gift of Someone Who Believes in You

Everything in my life seems to come back to something I learned on a bike. There’s a saying among cyclists: Get on my wheel. It means tuck i...

Stronger Together: The Beauty of Collaboration

Stronger Together: The Beauty of Collaboration

Surround yourself the people that will count every rep with you. They will remind you to BREATHE when it gets tough. They will remind you th...