The Leadership Work Nobody Talks About, But Everyone Needs
I’ve spent years studying what makes people and organizations truly flourish. I’ve pored over the neuroscience, the psychology, the organizational research. I’ve worked with many leaders across industries. And yet, some insights continue to deepen my ways of thinking. Recently, I sat down with Beck Sydow, Founder of HumanKind Business Leaders, former CEO of Sticker […]
Is Your Workplace Making People Sick? The Case for Anti-Inflammatory Organizations
I recently had a conversation with Jacqueline Oliveira-Cella that brought together two threads I’ve been exploring: how our brains are hardwired for connection and flourishing, and how the systems we design at work either support or sabotage that wiring. Jacqueline isn’t your typical wellness expert. She’s an actuary with over 25 years of experience who […]
Signs of Workplace Burnout: When Work-Life “Balance” Becomes the Problem
Your best manager just submitted another request for PTO. The third one this quarter. You remember when they first joined your team three years ago—how they’d light up the room in every meeting, how they’d stay late not because they had to, but because they genuinely cared about mentoring their direct reports. They were the […]
Work Shouldn’t Be a Source of Suffering
I sit on the London Underground sometimes and watch people’s faces. Jean Moncrieff, CEO of the Small Giants community, described it perfectly in our recent conversation: “Almost looking like zombies. They can’t wait to get out of work. They hate Monday.” Beneath that visible misery lies an even darker reality. This week, I learned that […]
The Hidden Cost of Guilt: Why Working Mothers Need Permission to Flourish
When Mary Sheehan, marketing leader at Adobe and Founder of Propel Yourself, told me that guilt is the number one struggle working mothers face, I felt it in my bones. Not because I’m a working mother, I’m not, but I’ve witnessed this pattern over and over again. The guilt Mary describes isn’t occasional. It’s relentless. […]
Leadership Training for Managers: Why Emotional Regulation is the Missing Skill in 2026
There’s a quiet crisis unfolding in organizations right now. Your managers are drowning, and the leadership training for managers you’ve invested in isn’t addressing the real problem. I’m talking to you, Chief People Officer. You, Head of Wellbeing. You, CEO who just lost another high-potential leader to burnout. The numbers tell a story you already […]
The Four-Habit Threshold: Why Small Daily Practices Create Exponential Change
I’ve spent years studying what makes people truly flourish in their work and life. And here’s what I’ve learned: our modern world has created a peculiar crisis. We’re more technologically advanced than ever, yet we’re struggling more than we should be. The problem isn’t that we’re broken. It’s that our ancient brains are trying to […]
The World Doesn’t Need You to Be Superhuman. It Needs You to Be Human
The narrative is everywhere: do more, be more, achieve more. It’s the water we swim in. And for the longest time, I believed it too. But my recent conversation with Crystal Fernando, author of Unapologetically Human, named it perfectly: “we’re not in a performance crisis. We’re in a human capacity crisis.” And the solution isn’t to […]
Better Every Day: What Zebra Technologies Taught Me About Building Cultures That Compound
There are conversations that leave you informed. And then there are conversations that quietly rewire how you think about leadership, culture, and what really drives performance over the long term. My conversation with Jeff Schmitz, Chief People Officer at Zebra Technologies, was firmly in the second category. Zebra is a publicly traded, global technology company […]
6 Evidence-Based Shifts to Regulate Your Emotions Why Emotional Mastery Isn’t About Eliminating Negative Feelings, it’s About Learning to Work With Them
There’s a question I’ve been sitting with for years, in my own life, in the teams I coach, and in the organizations I support: Why do so many of us believe that the path to happiness is paved by eliminating negative emotions? I used to believe it too. Before I began the journey that became […]
