High Performance Starts with Self-Compassion

What if the quality we’ve been told will weaken us – self-compassion – is actually the key to wellbeing and higher performance? Dr. Kristin Neff is a pioneering researcher at the University of Texas at Austin. She was the first to operationally define and measure self-compassion, a distinction that matters, because it means the insights […]
Feedback Is the Big F Word. Here’s Why We’re Getting It Wrong.

We crave it. We fear it. We give it badly and receive it even worse. Feedback is one of the most powerful tools we have for growth as leaders, as colleagues, as human beings. And yet, in most organizations, it is one of the most misused. I’ve spent years studying what helps people flourish at […]
From Reactive to Present: How the FLOW Framework Transforms Leadership

I have spent years talking about flourishing, the science of it, the practice of it, the way it shows up at 6 a.m. when your alarm goes off and you have to decide what kind of leader you will be today. And every so often, a conversation sharpens something that matters deeply, not because it […]