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By Steven Iwersen, CSP Do you remember the last time you went to the bookstore and stood in front of the leadership/management section perusing the titles for the one perfect book that might help you become a better leader?  What were some of those titles?  Could they have included… The One Minute Manager by Blanchard The Five Dysfunctions […]

By Jeanne Porter King, PH.D. Women need each other to build bridges to our success. Without these bridges, too many of us just fall through the cracks. One of the core principles I have come to embrace for cultivating women’s leadership in organizations and institutions is to help each of us develop and cultivate the […]

By Patrick J. Donadio, MBA, CSP, MCC My first “paid speaking engagement” in 1986 was a disaster! Here is what happened. As they read my introduction, I began to feel myself getting more and more nervous. By the time I got up to speak, I was so nervous I forgot my opening. Next, I had […]

By Amy S. Tolbert, PH.D., CSP Change is a messy business. The changes to incorporate diversity and inclusion into an organization can be even more so. The brutal fact is that about 70% of all change initiatives fail. Why?  Because in most of the cases organizational-change failures are driven by … negative employee attitudes and unproductive […]

By Alan Zimmerman A while ago, Roger E. Axtell sent an email to the General Manager of his company in Peru. In the message he wrote, “I need to know the number of people in your factory and the number of people in your office broken down by sex.” The manager dutifully replied: “We have 35 in […]

by Ann Tardy, JD, CSP We just kicked off another leadership mentoring program for one of our clients. And I’m bracing myself for the inevitable… Before the end, someone in the program will confess, “I’m so busy. I haven’t connected with my Mentor.” Of course you’re busy! That’s how you got into the program. By successfully doing a […]