When leaders avoid giving feedback, they unknowingly create a 'feedback failure chain' that erodes culture and threatens competitive advantage. Discover how reframing feedback as a gift transforms organizations and builds authentic leadership cultures where innovation thrives.

Here’s what most leaders don’t realize soon enough: performance without alignment is a slow leak. You can keep going. You can keep delivering. But if the work consistently pulls you away from your Genius, it eventually costs more than it gives.

Here’s what most leaders don’t realize soon enough: performance without alignment is a slow leak. You can keep going. You can keep delivering. But if the work consistently pulls you away from your Genius, it eventually costs more than it gives.

You decided to join a nonprofit board. No it's important to adjust your mindset. Unlike focused decision-making often found in business, board service requires collective contemplation. Things move at a slower pace, with less aggressive growth and risk-taking. Shifting mindset is one of the many adjustments we had to make on our journey.

Though the constant stream of new innovations in AI can seem intimidating, you can make a small but impactful change today.

The challenge of organizational silos isn't just about efficiency—it's about unlocking your team's full creative potential. The innovative leaders from my workshop recognized this when they shifted from focusing on creativity techniques to addressing the fundamental barriers that prevented their best ideas from flowing freely.

Organizational silos stifle innovation and engagement. Discover three telltale signs of siloed teams and practical strategies to transform disconnected departments into cohesive, high-performing teams that collaborate effectively and drive better business results.

Companies that prioritize adaptability respond faster to market disruptions, produce more innovative solutions, and maintain higher employee engagement during periods of change. Let’s explore how you can deliberately develop adaptability as your competitive advantage.

Companies that prioritize adaptability respond faster to market disruptions, produce more innovative solutions, and maintain higher employee engagement during periods of change. Let’s explore how you can deliberately develop adaptability as your competitive advantage.

The Engagement Quotient (EQ) presents a paradigm shift in how we measure and understand employee engagement. By connecting engagement to business outcomes, utilizing existing performance data, and providing continuous and objective insights, the EQ empowers organizations to make data-driven decisions that drive meaningful improvements.

After over 20 years of navigating the dynamic landscape of the tech industry and witnessing the evolution of employee engagement, I began to realize that conventional engagement surveys weren't telling the whole story.

As AI agents emerge as potential digital colleagues, businesses face a transformative shift in how they operate and manage their workforce. Discover how to build the foundation for successful AI agent integration while preserving your company's values and human potential.

As AI agents emerge as potential digital colleagues, businesses face a transformative shift in how they operate and manage their workforce. Discover how to build the foundation for successful AI agent integration while preserving your company's values and human potential.

Is your business plateauing just when you're ready to take it to the next level? You're not alone. Many CEOs find themselves at a crossroads, eager to scale their businesses but facing a myriad of challenges: rapid growth that has hit a plateau, a tight talent market, an aging workforce, and the looming need to make critical decisions about capital investments and adapting to new technologies.

Is your business plateauing just when you're ready to take it to the next level? Many CEOs find themselves at a crossroads, eager to scale but facing challenges: a tight talent market, an aging workforce, and the looming need to make critical decisions about capital investments and adapting to new technologies. A fractional COO can help.

There's a powerful shift that happens when you can first think beyond the next hour in a crisis. Six days after Hurricane Helene, standing on a friend's deck in Asheville, for the first time, I felt a confidence emerge that whispered everything is OK.

In Asheville’s vibrant leadership landscape, something special happens when minds gather monthly at Mojo Coworking. We call it Leadership on Tap – a space where leaders come together to ignite meaningful and unexpected conversations.

Standing on the bridge Friday afternoon on Sept. 27, 2024, I witnessed something I'll never forget.

The world is buzzing about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Every day brings a new wave of headlines proclaiming groundbreaking advancements, potential disruptions, and even dire warnings. It's enough to make anyone's head spin, especially business leaders who are trying to make strategic decisions in this rapidly evolving landscape.

In the race to leverage AI for business advantage, we may overlook a surprising side effect: mastering communication with AI sharpens your human interactions too.