Choosing to be a World Champion at Life
Choosing to be a World Champion at Life Yesterday we hosted the first Surrender to Lead Summit. The conversation moved fast from aspiration to responsibility. Meredith Kessler’s keynote hit me hard. She talked about judgment under pressure, the kind where stakes are real, consequences creep in slowly, and ego hides as certainty. She made a choice most leaders never stop to make. She could have chased the title, but she chose purpose instead. She “chose to be a world champion at life rather than a world champion at Kona.” That clarity exposes a leadership problem: too many people push momentum without checking if it’s still serving the mission. Preorder Surrender to Lead for more stories...
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The Death of the Culture Committee
The Death of the Culture Committee Culture committees came from a sincere place. They gave people a voice. They helped leaders show that listening...
When AI Fails, Accountability Still Belongs to Us
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The Accountability Dilemma of Global Outages
The Accountability Dilemma of Global Outages When major outages such as those from CrowdStrike or Amazon Web Services occur, companies often respond...
Make HR Great… Not Again, But For The First Time
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“At Their Most Vulnerable”
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False Haste: When Waiting Becomes Wisdom
False Haste: When Waiting Becomes Wisdom This week I wrote about a lesson that connects my Master of Divinity studies with corporate culture: the...
Once Again, Story Trumps Data
Once Again, Story Trumps Data. More than 800,000 people have been laid off this year with little public outcry. Yet when Jimmy Kimmel was suspended,...
AI Isn’t the Villain. Fear Is.
AI Isn’t the Villain. Fear Is. Micha Kaufman’s announcement at Fiverr is being torn apart online, but let’s be clear about what’s really happening....
What If Instead of Leaning In, We Started Letting Go?
What If Instead of Leaning In, We Started Letting Go? For years, I believed the story we were all told — that if I just leaned in harder, spoke...
Psychological Bravery > Psychological Safety
Psychological Bravery > Psychological Safety Psychological safety has been the dominant conversation in leadership for years, but it has its...
A Culture for All Generations
Disrupting the way we think about generations to attract, engage, and retain all employees
There’s a real benefit in dismantling the perceptions behind Gen Z or X, or whatever the next trendy label is! Citing extensive academic research from her book, Unfairly Labeled, Jessica provides a refreshingly enlightening and data-driven perspective on how multi-generational organizations can strip away stereotypes and and biases that hinder performance and prevent progress toward a common purpose.
