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 […]
The Truth About Meaningful Work: It’s Not What You Do, It’s How You Experience It
We spend the majority of our waking hours at work. For most people, that’s somewhere between 40-60 hours a week, more time than we spend with our families, pursuing our hobbies, or doing anything else. Yet when you ask people about their work, a troubling pattern emerges: most see it as something to endure, not […]
Signs of Workplace Burnout: Recognition and Flourishing-Centered Solutions
Workplace burnout has reached epidemic proportions, yet most organizations fail to recognize it until talented employees either disengage completely or resign. The challenge isn’t that leaders don’t care—it’s that the signs of workplace burnout often masquerade as performance issues, personality conflicts, or temporary stress rather than revealing themselves as symptoms of a systemic organizational problem […]
From Scarcity to Sustainable Abundance: A Conversation on the 7 laws of enough
The Scarcity Paradigm and Its Manifestations Recently, I had the privilege of sitting down with Jennifer Cohen, co-founder of Seven Stones Leadership and co-author of “the 7 laws of enough,” for a conversation that touched the core of what keeps so many of us from flourishing. As we explored why fear, scarcity, and separation dominate […]
Employee Engagement Solutions: The Strategic Evolution to Corporate Flourishing Programs
The traditional approach to employee engagement solutions has reached a critical inflection point. Despite decades of investment in engagement surveys, recognition programs, and satisfaction initiatives, global employee engagement rates continue declining while stress levels, burnout symptoms, and turnover rates reach unprecedented heights. This paradox reveals a fundamental truth: conventional employee engagement solutions address symptoms rather than root […]
Employee Wellbeing Programs: The Strategic Framework for Organizational Flourishing Beyond Traditional Engagement
The fundamental assumption driving most human capital strategies—that employee wellbeing programs and engagement initiatives serve interchangeable purposes—has created a multi-billion-dollar blind spot in organizational development. While traditional engagement approaches focus on measuring and improving employee satisfaction within existing structures, strategic employee wellbeing programs address the systemic environmental conditions that either enable or constrain human flourishing as the primary […]
