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Your Beliefs Compel You Forward Or Paralyze You I recently reorganized and moved my entire home office over the course of a single weekend. I had not been functioning well in my work space for [...]

Maybe no one has actually died, but many, many millions have died inside. Their very hearts and souls have been crushed under the weight of dense, dull PowerPoint decks that were surely not [...]

I work with lots of kinds of people: corporate professional types, lawyer types, entrepreneurial types, accounting types and others who don’t neatly fit into a type at all. As it happens, all of [...]

Nothing improves when shame enters the room. No one’s performance, loyalty, commitment, energy, focus or skills benefit from shame. Shame is the tool of an abuser. I have seen incredibly [...]

I was recently on the phone with a client who wanted to hire me for a keynote address. After several minutes of explaining their event and audience to me, I asked, “What do you want them to know, [...]

Diversity Must Be Actionable I’ve been a keynote speaker at various conferences for Women’s and Diversity Initiatives all over the country. I’m often troubled that those most needing to hear the [...]

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people explain their firm by reciting the number of offices they have, their areas of practice or list of competencies. I will sometimes ask clients if [...]

“Those who tell the stories rule the world.” –Hopi American Indian proverb I do a lot of speaking engagements and training on Narrative Leadership and integrating storytelling [...]

In 2015 a video about organ donation went viral. The video tells the story of an older man and his dog. It’s clear that the two companions are bonded when the old man has a heart attack and is [...]