I have started reading the research on how: individuals and groups react in a crisis and what the most effective leaders do in response. Over the next month ...

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When I was in my late twenties, I was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Doctors operated and told me to hope for the best. I returned to Japan, where I was work...

According to polyglots (people who can speak multiple languages) the fastest way to learn a new language is to quickly to learn the 300 most commonly used wo...

(click on link above to download infographic - only pg 1 shown above) Over the last 10 years I have worked with dozens of practitioners who wanted to introdu...

Written by Jennifer Garvey Berger, Ciela Hartanov, Nick Petrie Your organization is not prepared. You may have the right structure, business model and  reven...

For years I’ve tried to boil down the important topic of Vertical Leadership Development to the point where it is simple for anyone to understand. I’ve been ...

Learn about a simple new tool that shows leaders the best way to lead change in your organization. The Change Equation tool analyzes 100’s of changes from yo...

Over the last 18 months we analyzed 1,188 changes in 11 global companies to see what works best when leading change. We made two interesting discoveries abou...

Over the last 18 months we analyzed 1,188 changes to find the most effective way to lead change. We learned a lot! One big insight was that many leaders don’...

6 months ago, Carl Sanders-Edwards and I asked – could we bring together leadership development practitioners from some of the world’s best companies to co-d...

At last, my new whitepaper - The Change Equation - is about to come out (if you want an advance copy see below). Over the last 18 months we analyzed 1,188 ch...

Last week we ran the first Vertical Leadership Incubator in Austin. It was a big success (we thought!). Carl Sanders-Edwards and I created the Incubator fo...

On June 6 & 7 we are launching our new Vertical Leadership Incubator to help practitioners learn how to design & deliver Vertical Leadership programs (lear...

This week I want to introduce you to an idea that has obsessed me for the last 5 years – Vertical Development. One of the reasons that many leadership prog...

How can an organization accelerate its leadership pipeline? In the Oil and Gas sector we see a generation of leaders about to retire and take all of their k...

In the last post I promised that I would share with you the most important things I learned in the last 18 months. Where to begin? How about in Florida (it...

What an 18 months it has been. Two twin boys to add to two young boys, a new city (Austin – awesome) and a couple of hurricanes (well that’s the twins agai...

Right this paper is finally out! It took a long time because I wanted to get input from as many people around the world as possible. Over the past three mon...

Newton’s First Law of Motion: Every object continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless compelled to change that state b...