Disrupting Mono-Work Cultures and Hiring for Excellence
I LOVE helping businesses and organizations build teams that represent a diversity of life experience and skills. Many folks in human...
Urgency--The Enemy of Team Building
Imagine you it is a Monday morning, and you just sit down to review your emails with your favorite scone and large cup of coffee. At the...
Employers and DACA
Earlier this week, Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, announced the Trump Administration is ending the Deferred Action for Childhood...
Investing in Frontline Staff
Love it or hate it, we live in a society built by and for capitalism. This means that our economy is driven by and for profit. People who...
Accountability and Insight Coaching
The leaders of three to four decades ago came up in the work world with secret, underpaid, under-valued weapons--secretaries. My...
Book Review
I recently finished Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman. There is much to learn from her theory about...
Maximize Your Superpowers
Some of my FAVORITE work is when I am hired to provide regular strategy and accountability check-ins with managers. I love this work...
We Are All Uber
Uber is getting a lot of well-deserved criticism for the culture of massive growth partnered with executive leadership who eschewed best...
Portland, We Have a Racism Problem
As a manager, you have access to power. You have the power to decide whom to hire, how much to pay them, whom to promote, whom to...
Celebrating the Gift of Critical Feedback
When was the last time you received honest critical feedback from your direct reports? Great leaders solicit, reflect upon, and respond...
