The pen
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“The Fall Was the Lesson: What Leaders Must Learn to Do in the Space Between”
I was a kid living overseas, far from everything familiar, trying to figure out where I fit. Recess was a sanctuary. The tetherball court. The monkey bars. The unspoken rules of a playground where you proved something about yourself every single day just by showing up. One afternoon, I decided I was done with ordinary.… Read more
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The Red Chair: A King’s Rest and Persistence
There’s a particular kind of weight that settles on you when you realize you’re standing in a space that holds a story that has been told for generations. Not museum history—polished, cordoned off, protected behind velvet ropes—but the living, breathing kind. The kind that asks something of you. Last week, I was invited to speak… Read more
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When Your Lane Feels Too Narrow: A Strategy for Navigating Role Frustration
Occasionally, on the drive home. I will touch base with a friend of mine who leads in a dynamic environment, and he shared how a team member of his expressed feeling stuck—believing their work lacked executive champions, was unclear about organizational direction, and frustrated that the mission was drifting from their core values. Sound familiar?… Read more
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Superman can’t save us: Courageous leaders can
There’s a dangerous comfort in waiting. As humans, we wait for a lot of things. We wait for the latest cellphone update, our coffee order, the latest season to our television show, we patiently wait for the traffic light to turn green, and we even wait for the eventual “reply all” message. In the workplace,… Read more
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The Conversation We Keep Avoiding (And Why That’s Costing Us Everything)
There’s a moment in every difficult workplace conversation where you feel it—that slight tightening in your chest, the careful recalibration of your words, the split-second decision about whether to say what you really mean or what you think someone wants to hear. I’ve spent my career watching these moments. More than that, I’ve lived them.… Read more
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The Compass In the Fog
There are mornings when the fog rolls in—not the kind that clings to trees, but the kind that settles in your chest. A quiet melancholy. A weight. You wake up and the world feels muted, the path ahead blurred. But you get up anyway. Because the compass still points north. Excellence doesn’t ask how you… Read more
