Three Keys to Meetings That Create Value
After years of facilitating meetings as part of our consulting work, I have noticed something consistent. When a meeting is carefully designed and truly participatory, the people who attended often...
View ArticleWhy Participatory Strategic Planning Works: A Lesson From the Boardroom
For years, I sat on the boards of nonprofit organizations, and every one of them needed a strategic plan. Funders required it, so we made sure we had one. In some organizations, we built the plan...
View ArticleWhat Organizational Health Requires That Good People Can’t Supply Alone
A little charcoal grill on a balcony. That is where this starts. Some new tenants moved into my building not long ago. A young couple. They lit the grill on their balcony one evening, and the fumes...
View ArticleHow I Learned to Expand My Worldview
I grew up in a very small town. Around 500 people – and I didn’t even live in town. I lived on a hobby farm nearby. The kids in my class at school were the same kids I went to Sunday school with, the...
View ArticleThe Invisible Force Behind Your Leadership Decisions
I have been working with the concept of worldview for more than twenty years. In that time I have not become less curious about it. If anything, the opposite is true. The longer I work with it, the...
View ArticleWhy Organizational Change Fails (a story)
“It’s not your job to ask questions.”A friend called me last week. She was frustrated. She had just come out of a meeting at work. Her organization had been going through big changes. By the time...
View ArticleWhat the Artemis II Mission Taught Me About Life-Nourishing Work
Birgitt Williams and I watched the Artemis II lunar flyby together on April 6, 2026. Seven hours. We didn’t miss a minute. We work with leaders and organizations to develop life-nourishing ways of...
View ArticleWhy Approaching Change from a Holistic Perspective Matters
Here’s why the way we approach change matters. One morning, I was at my child’s school for a couple of hours volunteering. I spent most of the time in the office and had a front row seat to all that...
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Are you open to unlearning?
I have been interested in unlearning lately. Letting go of thoughts, behaviours, and knowledge that are no longer serving me, or perhaps no longer true. Think about some of the things you probably...
View ArticleEpisode 16: Enabling
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Why Approaching Change from a Holistic Perspective Matters
Here’s why the way we approach change matters. One morning, I was at my child’s school for a couple of hours volunteering. I spent most of the time in the office and had a front row seat to all that...
View ArticleEpisode 15: Empowerment
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View ArticleEpisode 14: Community
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Finding a Path Forward is a Significant Part of Leadership
As an individual who is learning to be in leadership of your life, times of change do not give you a rest from the responsibility for finding a path forward. You may be tired. You may be in ‘change...
View ArticleEpisode 13: Courage
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Episode 12: Communication
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What It Really Means When You Say Yes to Change
I watch people showing their flexibility, resilience, and adaptability in relation to the pandemic. People have done awesome, even heroic things in this time of change that was not planned, or agreed...
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Aligning Responsibility, Accountability, and Authority For Optimal Performance
One of the things I feel most strongly about when we are assisting organizations to transform is to align responsibility with authority and accountability for high performance. We’ll unpack these...
View ArticleEpisode 11: Clear Purpose
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At the heart of diversity, inclusion, equity, belonging, and fitting in
A simple question with, perhaps, a not so simple answer. “Is your heart in this work of helping people to value diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging?”. The best leaders that I know, and have...
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