Join host Kate Ebner and guest futurists, analysts, innovators and visionaries who will illuminate useful and powerful strategies to enable better, more confident navigation. A new 30-minute episode each month.
The Power of a Single Breath
This year, when the very notion of togetherness has been radically redefined, the simple experience of breathing together has taken on new meaning.
Taking a Stand vs. Taking a Stance
Humanitarian Lynne Twist introduced me to a key distinction long ago between taking a position and taking a stand: One calls up opposition, the other a brave, bold commitment to act with purpose.
Reclaiming the Driver’s Seat in a Pandemic Year: Reflections from a Junior Employee
While the challenges are unprecedented, remember that you actually know how to drive even though the road looks different.
Conversations About Race: Start From Within
The conversation started innocuously. Then my friend blurted out a statement that I could tell she regretted. Maybe there was even surprise that she thought it. If that conversation happened now, here is what I would have done.
Backbone and Heart: The Dance of Coaching
As coach and author Mary Beth O’Neill describes in her book, Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart: A Systems Approach to Engaging Leaders with Their Challenges, a coaching engagement “is a continual dance of balancing backbone and heart,” requiring coaches to speak not only with kindness, but also truthfully and courageously.
A Leader’s Stance: Kind, Clear, Fair, and Firm
Your goal as a leader is first to be respected, not liked. If you are Kind, Clear, Fair, and Firm, your team and staff will trust and respect you, and they will ultimately like you too.
Protected: Interview with Kim D’Abreu on her podcast, (In)Visible Women
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Intentional Leadership: A Guide to Intention Setting
An intention can be used as an excellent tool to practice self-management and improve your presence and impact at work.
At the Learning Edge
Each of us has a “learning edge” – our own personal frontier in which we are rapidly, and sometimes uncomfortably, learning about ourselves and the world. At this frontier, we have the greatest gains to make.