Rooted & Unwavering

Love. Serve. Remember. “No matter how closed off or distracted the workshop participants appear on Sunday eve, at the beginning of our journey together, I greet and see them as grateful and open as I know they will be on Friday.” Amy Elizabeth Fox, co-founder and CEO of Mobius Executive Leadership, has led thousands of executives through immersive transformational programs over the past twenty yea...

“I started off as an achievement junkie,” shares Lori Brewer Collins, transformational coach and recognized leader in the fields of vertical development, polarity thinking, and global leadership agility. Over time, she learned not to reject the achievement-driven part of herself, but to integrate it alongside long-dormant dimensions, including her desire to paint, write, and simply be. “Integratio...

Leadership Sfumato: Soft Wonder, Warm Welcome “I started off as an achievement junkie,” shares Lori Brewer Collins, transformational coach and recognized leader in the fields of vertical development, polarity thinking, and global leadership agility. Over time, she learned not to reject the achievement-driven part of herself, but to integrate it alongside long-dormant dimensions, including her desi...

Basically Bad or Basically Good? “Feeling myself, life feels workable. I feel a sense of goodness,” shares Lodro Rinzler, best-selling and award-winning author of eight books, including his latest one “You Are Good You Are Enough.” We may believe that we are an anxious, angry or depressed person. “We have a choice,” shares Lodro, “do we want to stay in that story, or look a little deeper?” Slowing...

“The quiet space of the heart guides us to what we truly are about,” shares Jessica Tracy, Jungian Coach and speaker.  When we live out of alignment with our authentic self, it hurts: our soul feels fragmented. Getting into alignment requires us to face the parts of us that aren’t integrated yet, our shadow, as Jung called it. Living in alignment with our authentic self is journey in which we get...

Live 90 Years in 90 Days “What is a different choice I can make that creates the best story?” is one question John K. Coyle, champion athlete, speaker and innovator, also in the field of “Chronoception,” asks to help time slow down. The Greeks had two words for time: Chronos and Kairos. The former is literal time, the latter our experience of it. It turns out we have many more choices than we may...

Manage Yourself First to Lead Others “Coming out of the hospital with my firstborn son, I realized I had no idea how to raise a child,” shares Maragaret Andrews, author of Manage Yourself to Lead Others. Similarly, we learn to become good parents to ourselves by repeatedly allowing ourselves the humility of not knowing how we will coach ourselves through the challenges we encounter. 85% of what ma...

Manage Yourself First to Lead Others “Coming out of the hospital with my firstborn son, I realized I had no idea how to raise a child,” shares Maragaret Andrews, author of Manage Yourself to Lead Others. Similarly, we learn to become good parents to ourselves by repeatedly allowing ourselves the humility of not knowing how we will coach ourselves through the challenges we encounter. 85% of what ma...

Fuel Your Wholeness “Listen to yourself, your thoughts, your emotions, your body and listen deeply to others,” shares Dr. Laura Hamill, “This helps you lead with integrity.” Leaders need to be positive and also honest when things aren’t going well. “Honesty creates connectedness.”  And things get hard at times. To take care of the hard stuff, we need to take care of ourselves. The more we grow the...

Hierocles’ Circles of Concern “You need to accept you are a white belt again,” reflects Rob Sarver, Lieutenant (SEAL) who completed seven active deployments during his service, including in Iraq and Afghanistan. Letting go of his black belt status in the Navy world he knew well to rediscovering himself in his civilian life afterwards, has been a hero’s journey for him. “I spent 9 years in the dese...

Just Do It: The Faith of Fallibility “What’s the worst that can happen? Ok, you fail. And then you may feel embarrassed. People have a short attention span. They forget.” shares Avantika Akerkar, transformational facilitator, actress and open water swimmer. “So, you just do it and jump in.” Our inner big YES to move toward what we yearn for is often followed by small, yet insistent no’s, just as w...

Give Your All to This Moment “When I notice an audience is not resonating, I become curious and engage more,” reflects Dorothy Lawson, virtuoso and founding cellist of the alt-Classical string quartet ETHEL. As a long-time performer, Dorothy focuses on transmitting what is most important. “We learned from performing for and with the Navajo community that it’s not about entertainment and impressing...

What I Hear You Say Is…   “Confidenceis the closest thing humans have to magic,” shares Eric Charran, visionarytechnology executive, and author of Have You Ever Had a Boss That… Thishelps you assess: “Is this boss or team worth another month of my time?” Ericleads his teams with this perspective. “Does being in a meeting with Eric giveme energy, or does it drain me?” Part of being confident is bei...

Inclusive Leaders Call in and Call Out “Sometimes you need to rock the boat, to create a culture of belonging” shares Jonathan Stutz, diversity, equity and cross-cultural management consultant and author of Daily Practices of Inclusive Leaders. Everyone deserves to be seen, heard, valued and understood and this requires us to speak up in moments where we see this not happening. We have Call In and...

Journey of Infinitesimal Courage Major life transitions can be among our most challenging moments, whether it is for the veteran who transitions to civilian life, or for someone who goes through divorce, being let go at a job, illness, death of a loved one, or becoming an empty nester.  Everything changes, it can be disorienting like stepping off a cliff into an unknown world.  “The patterns revea...

“Know you are loved and enough. And put yourself in the proximity of pain. The rest follows naturally.” This is how we can start the work of reparations, says Joel Goza, professor of ethics at Simmons College of Kentucky, and author of multiple books, including: “Rebirth of a Nation: Reparations and Remaking America.” “Or you stay in your segregated bubble. Then you will stay stuck and not grow.”...

The Windshield is Bigger than the Rearview Mirror What is the next reasonable action to take? Patty Obermaier, Board Member, and Advisor, former Chief Growth Officer at Microsoft Life Sciences, prioritizes resilience and agility in her leadership. She learned from her science background to stay agile by staying focused on learning and asking questions: “What assumptions are you making?” By staying...

Be Kind and Do Your Inner Work “I was promoted to Vice President too soon,” reflects Don Johnson , former monk who became an executive coach and writer of articles and of the book Living a Conscious Life: How to Find Peace, Wholeness and Freedom in a Chaotic World.  “I was in survival mode.” In survival mode, he was less wise, less connected and less able to create a place of work where people cou...

Depolarize with AI“As leaders we need to change our human operating system,” shared Domien Van Gool, Founder of the Leader Academy (www.leaderacademy.tv). Core to leadership is connection. To build a culture of connectedness, we need to access our 3 AIs and 1 AU: Authentic Interaction, Appreciative Understanding, Accumulative Integration and Aligned Implementation. Domien honors a two-fold commitm...

Whether you’re a newly promoted manager or someone managingfor decades, Sabina Nawaz, a global CEO Coach and author of the newbook, You’re the Boss, Become the Manager You Want to Be (and Others Need) shares a fresh and provocative perspective on what it means to be a boss. Sabina says, “My intention in writing this book is to help bosses seethemselves more clearly and understand the impact they h...

Thrive? Clarify What You Suck At To thrive you need to be clear about who you are. “What do you suck at?” Skip Richards, pilot, photographer, barista, grandfather, father, singer, visionary and now retired technology executive, used to ask his team members. “You need to know what you are not good at so you can focus on your strengths.” Skip learned from his dad, Ed Richards, about the power of app...

Leave It Better Than You Found It The Japanese fans at a FIFA tournament cleaned up their section at the end of the game? Why? “They wanted to leave it better than they found it,” says Vignesh Markandan, currently Vice President at Hitachi Digital Service, a company committed to social innovation. Our opportunity as leaders and human beings is to “learn as much as we can and apply it as best we ca...

Leading is Trusting Others Trust others, says Simon King, Chief People Officer at Daiichi Sankyo, and 30-year biopharma leadership veteran. Trusting others do their best will help them to grow and give their best. This requires letting go of control. Trusting others starts with trusting yourself first. No, not that you are perfect. You trust that you will do your best. How do you do your best? Rem...

“To connect to others, we first need to connect to ourselves,” says Tuula Rytila, Board Member of multiple corporations, including Bang & Olufsen and previously Corporate Vice President at Microsoft. Tuula started a daily meditation practice when the pandemic started. “Meditation is creating space for me to recognize the weak signals in my brain more easily.” This helps her to be more creative...

‘The only line we really need to think about is the Thin Blue Line (the earth’s atmosphere),’ says veteran former-NASA Astronaut and aquanaut Nicole Stott. ‘We are here to be good crew mates, not just passengers, on spaceship Earth.’ Awestruck she felt when she first saw earth from space. And heartened she became experiencing her fellow astronauts from around the world prioritizing purpose and tea...