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Not Your Obligatory ‘Set Your 2026 Resolutions’ Email
Is it me, or did 2025 just happen “like that”🤔🤞 (audio: finger snap)? I don’t know about you, but even though I created goals for 2025 at the beginning of the year, I sure didn’t spend much time reviewing and reflecting on them because I was too busy executing! Reflecting now,…
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Wishing You Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays! 🎁 I wish you lots of joy with your family and friends during the upcoming holidays. Here are a few pictures from Thanksgiving with my family and our East Coast relatives. Miles apart for many years, we still maintain a distinctive family culture – one I would describe…
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A Day to Focus on Giving, Not Getting
Today is Giving Tuesday, created in 2012 to focus on giving, not getting—a reminder to give back after Black Friday and Cyber Monday. What started small now spans over 80 countries, with hundreds of millions donated annually in the U.S. alone. It’s about more than money. People worldwide volunteer, support causes,…
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Thankful and Grateful: A Medicine for Emotional Nourishment
As you prepare to take time off for the Thanksgiving holiday, I encourage you to think about the words from motivational speaker, Steve Mariboli who writes: “Be consistent in your dedication to showing your gratitude to others. Gratitude is a fuel, a medicine, and spiritual and emotional nourishment.” During these…
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2026 Workforce and Leadership Trends Worth Paying Attention To
Here we are already in November, the start of a season that brings gratitude, celebration, and connection, and a time of year to more fully experience the joy of both giving and receiving. Yet it also brings the stress of balancing festivities with end-of-year business demands. I hope you will…
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The Five Keys to Sustainable Leadership Success
Earlier this month, I defined a strong leadership bench as the depth of capable leaders throughout your organization that are ready for bigger roles. I also noted why succession planning at all levels is critical to long-term organizational success. In my experience, the most self-aware leaders recognize that they sustain…
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Building Your Leadership Bench: The Succession Test
It’s hard to believe that 9 out of 12 months have already gone by. ✈📅 I hope October is off to a good start and you are beginning to navigate the end of the year with energy and intention. During my recent interview on the @ChiefOutsiders podcast with Pete Hayes, we discussed…
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The Five Best Development Practices of Self-Aware Leaders
In case you missed our last resources newsletter, I shared Jack Welch’s wisdom about the leadership transition from growing yourself to growing others, along with the five ways self-aware leaders excel at development. Here’s a recap: The Five Best Development Practices of Self-Aware Leaders 1. Know Each Person’s Complete Development…
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The Leadership Multiplier: Growing People to Grow Results
It’s my favorite month of the year! I love September for many reasons. I hope you are enjoying these last few days leading up to Fall and the energy that comes with new seasons! We recently explored the leadership behaviors that create ripple effects and build magnetic followership. Now I…