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What to Expect at our 2019 Re:Imagine Leadership Summit: Spoiler Alert – We’re Planning to Blow Your Mind
Our team is thrilled about this year’s Re:Imagine Leadership Summit in San Diego on April 25th. As we looked back at feedback from attendees of past years' summits, two themes emerged: 1) the desire to spend more time with other attendees 2) the desire to deep dive into...
How Leaders Can Avoid Imposter Syndrome
A few years ago, I attended the Inspiration Conference at Harrah’s Resort in Southern California. The day was packed with inspiring and motivational speakers in celebration of Women’s History Month. One such speaker was Amy Cuddy, the social psychologist and...
6 Inspiring Books to Read in Honor of Women’s History Month
Women’s History Month gives us an opportunity to explore some of the latest books written by women, about women, and for women. Here are 6 new titles that will inspire you to become more self-aware, break social expectations, and participate in healthy conflict to reach...
4 Women Who Broke the ‘Perfection or Bust’ Code
In 2012, American lawyer and politician Reshma Saujani started a nonprofit called Girls Who Code. “Coding,” explains Saujani in her 2016 TED Talk, is “an endless process of trial and error, of trying to get the right command in the right place with sometimes just a...
Direct from Lincoln’s Playbook: 3 Lessons on Diversity
If you ask a third grader what she knows about President Lincoln, she might draw you a picture of a tall, lanky, bearded man wearing a black suit and a stove top hat. If you ask a ninth grader the same question, he’ll likely recall that Lincoln was America’s president...
From Bureaucracy to Adhocracy: How Far Has the Culture Pendulum Swung?
Once upon a long, long time ago, it was good to be king. Being an unchallenged leader was so good, in fact, that the top-down, command-and-control organizational model that sprung from the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers when the Mesopotamians first used mass...
3 Skills to Help You Master Leadership Excellence
We’ve all come across them. Those leaders who people naturally gravitate toward. Though it seems counterintuitive, the magnetic effect these leaders have on people is not because of how people feel about the leader. It’s because of how the leader makes people feel about...
3 Critical Factors for Successful Leadership Training
It’s easy to understand the logic of investing in enterprise-wide technologies. Senior leaders recognize that it is better for multiple users to have access to data do things like track sales, manage projects, and share files. Yet, when it comes to leadership development,...
MLK, Jr.: How His Leadership Legacy Marches On In 12 Powerful Quotes
Last week, Martin Luther King, Jr. would have turned 90. While it is customary to look to our elders for sage advice, King knew that he was walking a path of imminent danger, but that his words could not be silenced by a bullet. Before his assassination at age 39, King...
10 Ways to Assess Reality Correctly as a Leader by Dr. Tony Baron
Over the past 10 years, I have been honored to explore and debate the essence of power with Dr. Tony Baron. Specifically, how power impacts leadership, how leadership impacts culture, and, ultimately, how culture impacts performance. With a double doctorate in psychology...
Our 10 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2018
It’s been quite a year and it’s hard to believe 2018 is almost over. But before we dive into 2019, we took a look back at which of this year’s posts got the most social media traffic - a combination of likes, comments and shares. The most popular posts covered how to lead...
8 Special Ops Team Members Ready to Fill Your Leadership Bench
Great leaders are in short supply. According to a global study conducted by Harvard Business Review, only 15% of companies in North America and Asia believe that they have enough qualified successors for key positions. If your leadership bench needs filling, a San...