Weekly Posts and Insights
Resilient Warrior Leader: The Passion to Persevere
This post explores the deep connection between leadership, passion, and perseverance, emphasizing that true passion often involves sacrifice and sustained effort. It highlights the importance of deliberate practice and renewal in avoiding burnout and achieving a state of flow. Ultimately, resilient leaders are those who pursue purpose with grit, balancing passion with intentional self-care and growth.
Mastering the Mind: Leadership Presence Through Mindfulness and the Johari Window
In the latest installment of the Resilient Warrior Leader series, I dive into the mental terrain of leadership—where mindfulness meets the powerful framework of the Johari Window. Too often, we push through stress and call it strength. But neuroscience tells us otherwise: chronic stress shrinks our capacity to lead with clarity, empathy, and presence.
Is Leadership Really Dead? (And Why I Still Write About It)
In a time when fear-based, authoritarian leadership styles are resurging globally, this post reflects on the enduring value of authentic, hope-driven leadership rooted in empathy, humility, and service. Despite the current climate, there is a call on leaders and educators to continue nurturing a new generation that leads with compassion, courage, and integrity.
Breaking the Superhuman Cycle: Why Great Leaders Need Rest Too
Many leaders fall into the trap of the Superhuman Syndrome, pushing themselves to exhaustion while ignoring the long-term costs to their well-being and effectiveness. This post explores how dissonant leadership and the constant chase for urgency can lead to burnout, while resonant leadership—rooted in emotional intelligence and renewal—fosters sustainable success. By embracing the Cycle of Sacrifice and Renewal, leaders can model resilience, elevate team performance, and lead with clarity and composure.
The Resilient Warrior Leader: Retool and Refuel for Leadership
The runner trains, the player practices, the warrior studies—so why do we assume that leading in today’s challenging world requires anything less? Leadership today demands more than just assimilation, acceptance and mediocrity — it requires intentional training and practice, just like an elite athlete or seasoned warrior.
Leadership, Babies and Mothers
As we wrap up this fun and light-hearted series, I'm experiencing a range of emotions—not only about leadership and recipes (though I love completing projects!), but also about the upcoming birth of my baby girl (due anytime now) and my late mother’s birthday on March 2.
The Leadership Growth Lattice for Your Learning and Development Efforts
According to LinkedIn’s 2024 Workplace Learning Report, employees are more likely to stay at a company that invests in their learning and development—a key strategy as 90% of organizations express concern about retention. The Leadership Growth Lattice offers a simple yet holistic approach, blending job training, mentorship, and leadership development to create multiple pathways for professional growth.
Motivation Risotto
Motivation, much like a well-balanced dish, relies on the right blend of ingredients. The CAMP model—Competency, Autonomy, Meaningfulness, and Progress—is your recipe to keep your team energized and engaged. Missing even one component is like forgetting salt in a soup—it just doesn’t work. Let’s break it down.
The Leadership Compote: Essential Ingredients for the Perfect Leadership Dish
Over the next few weeks, we’re taking a delightful detour from our in-depth writing to focus on our newest e-book, The Leadership Compote. Designed as a recipe book for leaders, this e-book offers simple, powerful, and fun “recipes” to inspire and guide great leadership.
While you can always download the full e-book, we invite you to follow along as we share a new recipe each week. And if you find this content helpful, the best way to support us is by sharing this post with another leader who might enjoy or benefit from it.
The Leadership Compote: Simple, Soul-Warming Recipes for Growing Resilient Leaders
Easy, applicable and scrumptious leadership recipes for everyone. Sometimes it takes some creativity (and a touch of humor) to better understand key leadership principles. It’s our hope that this book, above all else, sparks some ah-ha (or even ha-ha) moments for you. Leadership should be loose, fun, and adaptable. As you read through these recipes, I hope you not only chuckle but also picture exactly what we’re talking about when we think of best leadership practices and take something meaningful away.