Need a quick read to get you thinking about topics that most business leaders deal with?
In the blogs below, I dig deeper into specific topics from the book and share about exclusive leadership topics. These posts are meant to generate ideas about how you can evolve as a leader. I keep them short, and several of them ask questions that spur you to take action.
Building Diversity and Inclusion within Corporate Boards
Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives have taken a real hit over the last six months. People are taking a stand against DEI and saying it’s
Innovative Leadership Development Techniques for CEOs
Leadership development does not have a finish line. Your leadership journey extends as long as you continue investing time, energy, and resources into learning, growing,
Digital Transformation and Corporate Boards: Embracing Technological Change
Leading your organization’s digital transformation involves constantly monitoring what technology is available and how it can help you. Whether you’re a CEO or a board
Leadership in Sports Teams
So many sports analogies, lessons, and philosophies apply to business—and for good reason. To stay on top of your leadership game, I challenge you to approach your work through a sports lens. You may have different departments at your organization, but you’re all on the same team.
Mid-Year Leadership Review: Assessing and Adjusting Your Strategy
In today’s world, the chances of circumstances remaining exactly the same from the time you complete your annual plan to the time you execute that
The Future of Corporate Governance: Emerging Trends and Predictions
The success of businesses today often hinges on input from a high-performing corporate board of directors. Corporations face an endless stream of uncertainty from political
Cultivating a High-Performance Culture: Insights for Executive Teams
Sports teams with high-performance cultures are the teams that win championships. Their play is fluid; they move as one entity. Their play seems scripted—or even
Charge Directly into the Storm: The Best Leaders Know How to Be the Buffalo
It’s 4:00 p.m. on a Friday, and you get a message from a client asking if you have two minutes to talk. Your stomach drops. What do you do? Do you say no and send them a meeting invite for next week? You could easily ignore the message until Monday. What would it feel like to pick up the phone and tackle it head on?
The Myth of Innovation
Innovation is a word that often scares people. They fear the unknown. They’re comfortable with the status quo. They hesitate to embrace new processes, tools, and techniques, and they avoid new ideas that shake up their organization.
Effective Board Meetings: Best Practices and Innovative Approaches
Everyone has experienced the pain of a poorly executed meeting. It’s frustrating at best and disastrous at worst. Corporate board meetings are no exception. You
Leadership in Times of Crisis: Lessons from Successful CEOs
There’s no underestimating a leader’s role during times of crisis. Responsible leadership, rational thinking, and strategic communication serve people well in any type of crisis
The Role of Corporate Boards in Responding to Global Events
Our world is hyperconnected, constantly changing, and brutally impatient. When a global event occurs—be it a pandemic, an act of violence, a political movement, a
Navigating Change Management: Top Strategies for Executive Teams
Change management is a nonnegotiable skill for today’s leaders. I encourage you to begin charting a map for navigating change by reframing your approach to
Building Emotional Intelligence in Leadership: Why It Matters for CEOs
Emotional intelligence is an often underrated yet pivotal leadership skill. In fact, 71 percent of employers value emotional intelligence more than technical skills when evaluating
Advisory Boards vs. Corporate Boards: Understanding the Differences and Benefits
Unless you already know everything there is to know as a leader and you’ve already experienced everything there is to experience in business, you can
The Evolution of Corporate Boards: Trends to Watch in 2024
As you’re looking at the year ahead and planning priorities for your corporate board, it’s important to thoughtfully consider the latest business trends and how
New Year, New Leadership Goals: Setting Effective Leadership Resolutions for CEOs
Shocking absolutely no one, a Google search on “setting leadership goals” yields over 366 million results, presenting an endless array of frameworks, processes, and methodologies
Establishing an Advisory Board at Different Stages of Your Business
Every leader—and therefore every business—benefits from outside advice, whether you’re a thirty-year veteran CEO at a Fortune 50 company, an entrepreneur launching your first startup, or a mid-career executive at a medium-sized company. No one has all the answers, regardless of their experience, education, or training.