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  • Episode 4: Assumptions

    Most operating decisions rest on assumptions, even data-backed ones. In this episode, develop skillfulness with your own assumptions and those of others.

    Most operating decisions rest on assumptions, even data-backed ones. In this episode, develop skillfulness with your own assumptions and those of others.

  • Working with Nature, rather than against it

    Organizations, like seasons, have natural rhythms. Working with those rhythms rather than against them is a leadership capacity most development programs ignore entirely.

    Organizations, like seasons, have natural rhythms. Working with those rhythms rather than against them is a leadership capacity most development programs ignore entirely.

  • Allowing: Developing Leadership the Genuine Contact Way

    Allowing is a leadership skill wise teachers consistently include in formulas for success. In this episode, discover what skillful allowing actually looks like.

    Allowing is a leadership skill wise teachers consistently include in formulas for success. In this episode, discover what skillful allowing actually looks like.

  • The pause is an important and often overlooked step in conflict prevention.

    Learning conflict resolution created an unexpected gift: the capacity to prevent conflict before it starts. The pause is where that prevention lives.

    Learning conflict resolution created an unexpected gift: the capacity to prevent conflict before it starts. The pause is where that prevention lives.

  • Alchemy: Episode 2

    Alchemy's most useful meaning is transforming paradoxically different things into one whole. In this episode, explore how developing that capacity changes your leadership.

    Alchemy's most useful meaning is transforming paradoxically different things into one whole. In this episode, explore how developing that capacity changes your leadership.

  • When shock scatters you into pieces, the responsibilities of leadership sit waiting. This post names the paradox honestly – and what actually helps.

    When shock scatters you into pieces, the responsibilities of leadership sit waiting. This post names the paradox honestly – and what actually helps.

  • Episode 1: Abundance

    Abundance thinking isn't optimism – it's a practical leadership skill. In this episode, discover what blocks it and how cultivating it changes organizational results.

    Abundance thinking isn't optimism – it's a practical leadership skill. In this episode, discover what blocks it and how cultivating it changes organizational results.

  • Choosing the Scope of Work or the Objectives

    RFPs often contain inconsistencies between what a client wants to accomplish and what they actually ask for. Skilled consultants know how to find them.

    RFPs often contain inconsistencies between what a client wants to accomplish and what they actually ask for. Skilled consultants know how to find them.

  • Self Love

    On the hard days, genuine contact with yourself – acknowledging how you feel without judgment – is what creates room to move forward.

    On the hard days, genuine contact with yourself – acknowledging how you feel without judgment – is what creates room to move forward.

  • Organizational Health and Balance

    Organizational wellness is not about employee fitness programs. It is about the health of the organization itself, and it directly drives performance.

    Organizational wellness is not about employee fitness programs. It is about the health of the organization itself, and it directly drives performance.