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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
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Stuck in a Valley: Sheep & Shepherds (Psalm 23)
Throughout my tenure as an administrator, I can count on both hands the times I drove to work hours earlier than my staff and students, wrapped in intentional silence. The stillness of the air was intentional because I was uncertain. Unsure. Lost. Lonely and paused in a daze. Whether it was processing a preemptive conversation… Read more
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The Leadership Wilderness: How to Turn Your Darkest Season Into Your Greatest Strength
Season of Preparation: A Letter to Leaders in the Valley As we close another chapter of leadership, many of us find ourselves caught in that liminal space between what was and what’s coming. And if we’re honest, we’re a little anxious about what’s ahead. There is a particular quality to these moments—these in-between spaces for… Read more
