Personal brand blindspots

Your personal brand isn’t manufactured—it’s discovered. It’s already there, hidden in plain sight. When colleagues describe you after leaving the room, they reveal your brand. Not the one you wish you had. Not the one on your LinkedIn profile. The...

Unmined gold

Surveys go out. Feedback forms fill inboxes. Customer insights pile up in dashboards, and nobody checks. We’ve become exceptional collectors but terrible miners. Companies invest thousands in sophisticated data systems while ignoring the nuggets in their...

Identity crisis

The pendulum swings again. DEI initiatives face intense scrutiny while organizations navigate treacherous waters between social pressures, legal challenges, and business priorities. The Known Territory We know diversity initiatives started with good intentions....

Think twice

Leaders who pull levers without seeing connections create unintended consequences far beyond their vision. The Ripple Effect “Every decision you make sends ripples into the future that you cannot possibly see.” —Ray Dalio Short-term decisions create long...

Take the wins

When victory arrives, embrace it. The losses will come. They’re inevitable in any journey worth taking. But that winning day? That successful week? The period where everything clicked? Don’t let it slip by unacknowledged. We naturally tend to obsess over...

Hidden giants

While some still cling to outdated barriers, women are quietly rewiring our world. The data tells a story power brokers would rather ignore. Companies with women in leadership outperform their peers by 25% according to McKinsey research. Yet only 8.8% of Fortune 500...