Your Leadership Wrap: Create Your Perfect Vision for 2020

This is the time of year when the responsibilities of leadership weigh more heavily than usual. In addition to the regular rhythms, there are the holiday celebrations, notes, cards, and often gifts for those who support us all year long. Organizations sometimes use December for budget reviews, planning, retreat agendas, and even performance reviews. It’s no […]

Cultivating Women Leaders Part III: Are there different strategies for men and women?

This is the third in a four-part series of material I developed and presented at a recent panel that explored Women’s Leadership. Entitled “Education for a Changing Plane. This was the first Summit convened by The Akilah Institute, an organization to which I have been deeply committed for a decade.   For more information on this extraordinary entrepreneurial […]

Cultivating Women Leaders Part II: 3 actions to support women’s access to leadership:

This is the second in a four-part series of material I developed and presented at a recent panel that explored Women’s Leadership. Entitled “Education for a Changing Planet. This was the first Summit convened by The Akilah Institute, an organization to which I have been deeply committed for a decade.   For more information on this extraordinary entrepreneurial […]

Thanksgiving offers Leadership Moment in Valuing People

As the U.S. prepares for the major holiday of Thanksgiving, I invite leaders to explore how we value people. It can feel awkward to verbally share what we appreciate and value in one another. Yet I can say from direct experience that expressing appreciation and gratitude for how another individual positively affects us is one of the […]