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Leadership

Guiding the way with integrity, vision, and inspiration, shaping leaders who create positive change in their spheres of influence.

Talent Optimization vs Talent Management

The Key to Winning the Talent Game: Understanding Talent Optimization vs Talent Management

In a world where companies love to throw around terms like “War on Talent,” let’s get real: there’s no war, just a serious need for strategic leadership.Stop just managing talent—optimize it. If you’re not stepping up to invest in your greatest asset—your people—you’re leaving opportunity (and profits) on the table. It’s time to rethink your

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Meraki - Lights, Camera, Action -Unleashing Your Inner Leading Lady

Lights, Camera, Action: Unleashing Your Inner Leading Lady

What Hollywood and Kate Winslet taught me about being a leading lady  Who comes to mind when you hear the phrase “Leading Lady?”  For me, a few women immediately take center stage: Vivien Leigh, Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis, Diane Keaton, Maya Angelou, and Kate Winslet.  This isn’t an exhaustive list—just the faces that instantly light up my

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Aha! Moments Those major paradigm shifts that occur in nanoseconds

Aha! Moments

Those major paradigm shifts that occur in nanoseconds They are brilliant, aren’t they? Like shooting stars in the night sky. The universe downloads key information directly to our brains and it rapidly spreads through our entire operating system.  Magic Do you recall all of your most impactful Aha! moments? {neither do I} As time marches

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Intentional Design

[please welcome] Strategic Planning’s More Sophisticated Cousin…Intentional Design

Disruptions. Pandemics. War. Market Instability. Global Warming. Restructuring. Misinformation. Espionage. In an era marked by VUCA – volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity – organizational leaders, and humans in general, strive to weather the storms that threaten our survival.  Discussions ensue, emergency meetings pop up, plans are made, contingency plans are considered, and probabilities are calculated. If/Then

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For the Love of Learning (Training and Development)

For the Love of Learning (Training and Development)

How to avoid tragic training experiences while enhancing employee engagement. Have you ever thought… ‘Maybe if I jab this pencil in my eye I can leave this circle of hell in an ambulance, it would be less painful than sitting here listening to this nonsense.’ -or-‘Well, there goes 4 hours of my life I’ll never get

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The 3 R’s of Developing Resilience in Your Team

The 3 R’s of Developing Resilience in Your Team

Renew – Refresh – Revive We are all familiar with the 3 R’s of Recycling…Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.  It’s a brilliant framework in that it is concise, memorable, and actionable. Truly everything a framework should be.  When you polish off a gallon of milk or a bottle of wine do you immediately rinse it and toss

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