Much like having a stop sign on your forehead, a scarcity mindset gives off a message that says, "don't invest here, we are not worth it."

Organizations tend to either be reactive or proactive in nature and there is nothing more effective at exposing that nature than a good pandemic.

If you didn’t think emotional and social intelligence were important before, you would have had no doubt by the time you left ICF Minnesota’s professional development event.

“We have a strategic plan, that’s not the problem.” However, my experience tells me otherwise.

Organizations, like the human body, also redirect pain away from the underlying source. When people learn I do strategic planning with organizations, the most common response often sounds something like this, “We’ve spent a lot of time and money on strategic planning and nothing changes when it is over.”

Neuroscience is a 50-year-old discipline but has only been in the public mind from the leadership and coaching perspective for about seven years.

As I reflect upon my learning, listening and observations from the last three days, five important themes emerged.