Last Wednesday morning, I was in a midtown conference room with a team of senior leaders of a Fortune 500 company. I was facilitating a CliftonStrengths leadership session, and I'd just pulled up their Team Grid on the screen—a visual map of where their collective talents cluster. I love using this tool with leadership teams,…
read moreOver the past few months, I've been fortunate to coach 17 people at a financial services organization on their
read moreWhen I was a lower school division head, a dear colleague and I used to teach a class called “Stories and Songs” to the youngest grade levels. It was a highlight of my week. We would choose a theme connected to the social-emotional curriculum, visit the early childhood classrooms, and—you guessed it—read a story and…
read moreLast Wednesday evening, I shared a story in my "Raising Confident Tweens" webinar that resonated with participants, many of whom are leaders themselves. It's about a third-grader named Alice, and what her journey taught me about developing people, no matter their age or role. Alice was a child whom everyone worried about at my school.…
read moreRecently on LinkedIn, I shared a post about Zach Mercurio's recent Harvard Business Review article, The Power of Mattering at Work. The article confirmed what many of us have observed for years. When people believe they are significant at work, they thrive. When they don't, we see the consequences: quiet quitting, disengagement, and high turnover.…
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