Executive Insider

The way in which organizations innovate, and places where they are based to do this, have changed profoundly over the last decade due to two overall trends – convergence and disruption. Companies have moved away from closed innovation models to more open approaches in which organizations and places work in...

In my recent book Win, Win, Win: The 18 Inclusion-isms You Need to Become a Disability Confident Employer ( Win, Win, Win Book) I provide 18 tactics anyone can apply to become an inclusive, welcoming leader. As helpful as that is, the hiring challenges small businesses are facing immediately after Covid and beyond...

Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted to speak up, but didn’t? No matter what, I’m sure there’s been a moment in life where your in-action, or having somebody else brush you off, made you feel small. Maybe you got a promotion, but were too afraid you’d...

Great leaders regularly discuss diversity and inclusion while taking progressive action to create such a culture in the workplace. A newer trend adds neurodiversity into the discussion, in cases of both identified and unidentified neurodiverse employees. Social awkwardness, previously attributed to the neurodiverse community, is the new norm in this...

From the way I lead my business to the way I raised my three sons, nothing has shaped me quite so much as the people and culture I come from. My formative years made me the person I am today, and that includes the way I lead my team as...

In April 2020, just one month into the U.S stay-at-home order, U.S divorce rates increased by 34 percent - with 20 percent of those couples having been married for five months or less. According to a statistic shared by Health Street, 4.5 million marriages ending in divorce are due to...

What can organizational leaders learn from an unemployed, unmarried woman who lived more than two hundred years ago? As it turns out, a great deal. Jane Austen offers organizational leaders six tools for cultivating a post pandemic culture that develops, inspires, and sustains women leaders no matter what  constraint they...

Going for the GOLD and sustaining the Olympic Gold Champion Discipline is a story on greatness, recently I had the opportunity to discuss exactly that with the United States Olympic Gold Medalist Connor Fields. THANK YOU for sharing! Q - “Let’s address the obvious, what has it meant and does...

Goal setting has become a bit like alphabet soup. We have SMART goals and HARD goals or CLEAR goals and BHAGS (big hairy audacious goals). The number of goal setting acronyms is a bit astounding, but are any of these truly helping us achieve what we ultimately desire? We live...

Many leaders are feeling unbelievably stretched and stressed beyond their limits, like tired rubber bands that no longer snap back. So how do you increase your elasticity so you can naturally return to a balanced state? Resiliency is the elastic force we use to return to normal when stress and...