We are looking forward to longer, beautiful days outside here in the Bay as we move deeper into another great Spring season. Conversations with clients and colleagues have increasingly focused…
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21st Century Leadership
Creative Power: Restive and Uprising
I recently enrolled in a 10-week, virtual, professional development/certification program for coaches called Arts Based Experiential Learning (ABEL). The program aims to strengthen key leadership and innovation skills such as…
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Book Review: Suddenly Hybrid Provides Good Advice on How to Manage Our New Way of Meeting
Karin Reed and Joseph Allen have written a great sequel to their book, Suddenly Virtual, titled, naturally enough, Suddenly Hybrid: Managing the Modern Meeting. It should be required reading for…
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The Importance of Focusing on Black Health and Wellness for 21st Century Leaders
Black Health and Wellness is the focus of Black History Month in 2022. When most think about health and wellness, the focus is on traditional western medical approaches. But, Black…
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Hopes, Dreams and Fears for 2022
The beginning of a new year is a perfect time to reflect on hopes, dreams and fears for the future. This is especially true, given the last couple of years…
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Ask, Listen and Evolve: Be The Culture That You Value
This week’s featured article is 5 Questions Every Manager Needs to Ask Their Direct Reports, from the Harvard Business Review. Increasing numbers of workers continue to opt out of existing…
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Our Favorite ESG Stories of 2021
From the COVID-19 pandemic to the climate crisis, 2021 brought a continuation of many of the challenges that arose in 2020. But while our challenges reached new heights, we watched…
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Five Trends and One Unifying Vision 21st Century Leaders Should Focus on in 2022
I was recently interviewed by Karen Mangia, VP at Salesforce, for Authority Magazine on the Great Resignation and the Future of Work. I shared with her top five trends we…
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Time to Fire Your Jerk Boss
Whether you fire everyone on a group Zoom call or dump someone’s last paycheck on their lawn in oily pennies, there are lots of ways to be a jerk boss….
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Have we made any progress with women in tech? Not much
Eight years ago, I attended a conference (remember doing that in person?) and had a chance to hear from some pretty amazing speakers, many of them women. The conference, Strangeloop,…
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