When Agreement Becomes a Risk: The Value of Productive Conflict It’s easy to assume that a team with little conflict is high-performing. Meetings move quickly, decisions come easily, and everyone [...]
The Ordinary Days that Lead to Big Change My son's last day of high school just happened. Wow. I know it sounds cliché, but it truly feels like not that [...]
Using AI Without Turning Off Your Brain Like most, I’ve been having lots of conversations about AI, and opinions range from “it’s fantastic!” to "it’s terrifying!”. The reality is that [...]
Are You Easy to Work With? Organizations place increasingly high expectations on leaders, particularly the ability to collaborate laterally with peers to achieve stronger results. Lateral collaboration is demanding because [...]
Delegation is Leadership in Action I’ve been watching The Pitt lately (a medical drama set in a busy Pittsburgh ER) - it’s riveting and can be quite gory, but highly [...]
From Frustration to Influence: Expanding Your Leadership Impact A few weeks ago, I went for routine bloodwork at a newly opened medical lab in my neighbourhood. I had a 9:15 [...]
Adaptive Leadership: Slowing Down when Dealing with Complex Problems I’ve noticed a pattern in my life of defaulting to action—moving quickly, speaking up first, and jumping in. This has often served [...]
When Leading Change Leads to Learning If my life right now were a movie, the title would be Transition City. Here’s why: • I turned 55 this year • My [...]
Sit. Stay. Lead: What raising a puppy is teaching me about becoming a better leader This is Ollie. Two weeks in and I quickly realized that raising a new puppy [...]
Leading from the Middle: Unique Challenges and a Way Forward Early in one’s career, a supervisor may ask for direction or guidance to figure out a way forward. By the [...]