The past month I had the privilege of leading two Authentic Leadership Academies: one in-person and one virtual. This work is deeply fulfilling and meaningful – an expression of my own personal reason for being. After an extremely rewarding in-person event, I wondered if it was possible to bring the same level of depth and […]
We’ve all been there. Criticizing someone who isn’t in the room. Badmouthing a colleague. Condemning our boss. It’s called gossiping and means we disrespect a person in their absence. What I’ve learned about gossip: It’s a defense against having the courage to be direct. It’s easier to deal with our anger towards someone by talking […]
What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that I can no longer believe in you. – Friedrich Nietzsche No. It is never okay to lie at work. But you have to understand that, while telling the truth is vital to establishing trust, truth-telling has to be tempered with skill, tact, and […]
At the end of WWII, the United Polish Relief Fund appealed to the Canadian government to deliver penicillin to Poland. In October and November of 1945, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) managed to deliver five tons of penicillin to Poland, the only humanitarian flights the RCAF would be able to make into the Soviet […]
It’s easy to go through the motions of life, attending to daily responsibilities, checking off our to-do lists, distracted by a wondering mind. And then something simple, yet profound, knocks us off our feet and brings us into the present moment – what Richard Rohr calls a sacred space. It might be when we have […]
Disruption and disorder have always been a part of the human condition. This reality is often seen at a global level, as in the brutality of terrorism and war, and sometimes more personally, as in the sudden arrival of an illness, an injury, or a personal betrayal. Our work is to embrace times of great […]
