The CEO’s Guide to Flourishing – Building a Program for Peak Organizational Performance

The most counterintuitive insight driving record-breaking organizational performance has nothing to do with technology, market positioning, or financial engineering. It’s the recognition that human potential represents the largest untapped asset on most balance sheets—and the systematic cultivation of this asset through a comprehensive flourishing program for organizations has become the defining characteristic of tomorrow’s market leaders. […]

Re-Engaging Middle Managers: A Flourishing Approach

A recent Wall Street Journal article outlines a global crisis: only 27% of managers reported feeling engaged in 2024-a steep 3-point drop from the year before. Young and female managers suffered even more severe declines. This erosion reflects high workloads, hybrid team complexity, digital transformation, and chronic lack of leadership training and mentoring (The Wall […]

AI Is Disrupting Entry-Level Jobs. Inner Development Is the Edge Students Need

The recent Wall Street Journal article, “AI Is Wrecking an Already Fragile Job Market for College Graduates,” highlights a sobering reality: the traditional entry into the workforce is vanishing. Just 7% of new hires in 2024 were recent grads, down from 11% in 2022. AI isn’t just automating tasks-it’s eating away at the very roles […]

Unlocking Human Potential: How Leaders Can Turn Talent into a Productivity Engine

When I think back over my own career, I’ve seen brilliant strategies stall, not because the ideas were bad, but because the human engine of the organization was never tuned to run at full its full potential. In my recent conversation with Stacey Dietsch, EVP of Talent at Liberty Mutual and former McKinsey Partner, we […]

5-Step Blueprint for Launching a Company-Wide Wellbeing Strategy

5-step blueprint for Launching a Company-Wide Wellbeing Strategy

Wellbeing Isn’t a Benefit. It’s Your Strategy. Julie Russ-Bodenmann, former Global Head of Wellbeing for UBS and Credit Suisse, built a global solution to address wellbeing and helped 120,000 employees thrive through the transformation and merging of these major banks without a big team or budget. Most organizations still treat employee wellbeing as a “nice […]

Rewiring Work: Using AI to Flourish, Not Just Function

Rewiring Work: Using AI to Flourish, Not Just Function

Flourishing in the Age of AI: A New Operating System for Work We are more prosperous than we’ve ever been. We have more access to information, better health care, longer life expectancy, and powerful technologies that can automate work, connect us instantly, and optimize every process. And yet…We are more burnt out, more anxious, and […]

From Fear to Flourishing: 4 Trust Practices That Work

From Fear to Flourishing: 4 Trust Practices That Work

We often say we’re working this hard for our teams, our companies, our families. But what’s the cost when the very pursuit of success ends up undermining the well-being of the people we care about most including ourselves? In my conversation with Michelle Poole, the former President of Crocs, we explored the heart of human-centered […]

From Performance Pressure to Flourishing: A Better Way to Work And Live

From Performance Pressure to Flourishing: A Better Way to Work And Live

Flourishing is at the core of what I’ve dedicated my second half of my life to. In this article, I want to share with you a little bit around why investment in flourishing makes business sense and how you can truly integrate this science into the way you work and live, and  lead others to […]