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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
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Are leaders asking the right questions?
The water of the Ohio River was colder than I expected that morning in Louisville. Not the bracing cold that shocks you into clarity, but the kind that seeps into your bones slowly, the kind that whispers that this might not be your day. The year prior, the water was choppy, with a murky, oily… Read more
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Civil Conversations Series
When Hot Topics Meet Hot Coffee (6/2025) Generations @ Work – Different Paths, Shared Goals (7/2025) Generations breakdown – Click Here Read more
