How listening differently can unlock clarity and momentum in your most important decisions. Discover how understanding Working Genius can reveal hidden strengths, reduce friction, and bring teams into powerful alignment—even when no one has taken the assessment.

When leaders avoid giving feedback, they unknowingly create a 'feedback failure chain' that erodes culture and threatens competitive advantage. Discover how reframing feedback as a gift transforms organizations and builds authentic leadership cultures where innovation thrives.

In Building a Culture of Joy and Productivity: The Key is Working Genius, one leader shares the quiet realization that changed everything: success without alignment drains you slowly. The 6 Types of Working Genius framework became a roadmap—not just for understanding productivity, but for rediscovering energy, clarity, and joy at work.

Here’s what most leaders don’t realize soon enough: performance without alignment is a slow leak. You can keep going. You can keep delivering. But if the work consistently pulls you away from your Genius, it eventually costs more than it gives.

You decided to join a nonprofit board. No it's important to adjust your mindset. Unlike focused decision-making often found in business, board service requires collective contemplation. Things move at a slower pace, with less aggressive growth and risk-taking. Shifting mindset is one of the many adjustments we had to make on our journey.

Though the constant stream of new innovations in AI can seem intimidating, you can make a small but impactful change today.

The challenge of organizational silos isn't just about efficiency—it's about unlocking your team's full creative potential. The innovative leaders from one of our expert’s workshop recognized this when they shifted from focusing on creativity techniques to addressing the fundamental barriers that prevented their best ideas from flowing freely.

Organizational silos stifle innovation and engagement. Discover three telltale signs of siloed teams and practical strategies to transform disconnected departments into cohesive, high-performing teams that collaborate effectively and drive better business results.

Consistency once set us apart—until it held us back.

In Leading Through Disruption, one leader shares the pivotal moment when traditional success metrics clashed with a client’s demand for innovation. The result? A complete shift in how performance was defined and who was best equipped to lead in uncertain times.

Companies that prioritize adaptability respond faster to market disruptions, produce more innovative solutions, and maintain higher employee engagement during periods of change. Let’s explore how you can deliberately develop adaptability as your competitive advantage.

The Engagement Quotient (EQ) presents a paradigm shift in how we measure and understand employee engagement. By connecting engagement to business outcomes, utilizing existing performance data, and providing continuous and objective insights, the EQ empowers organizations to make data-driven decisions that drive meaningful improvements.

After over 20 years of navigating the dynamic landscape of the tech industry and witnessing the evolution of employee engagement, I began to realize that conventional engagement surveys weren't telling the whole story.

In Digital Co-workers, we explore how forward-thinking businesses are preparing for a future where AI agents become embedded members of the workforce. From reimagining IT’s role to establishing governance and capturing institutional knowledge, this article offers practical insights to help you lead confidently through this next wave of transformation.

As AI agents emerge as potential digital colleagues, businesses face a transformative shift in how they operate and manage their workforce. Discover how to build the foundation for successful AI agent integration while preserving your company's values and human potential.

Enter the fractional COO—a flexible, cost-effective solution helping CEOs scale without adding a full-time executive. From streamlining operations to integrating acquisitions, these seasoned leaders step in with hands-on support, strategic clarity, and an outside perspective that drives results.

Discover how a fractional COO can unlock efficiency and free you to focus on leading the future.

Is your business plateauing just when you're ready to take it to the next level? Many CEOs find themselves at a crossroads, eager to scale but facing challenges: a tight talent market, an aging workforce, and the looming need to make critical decisions about capital investments and adapting to new technologies. A fractional COO can help.

There's a powerful shift that happens when you can first think beyond the next hour in a crisis. Six days after Hurricane Helene, standing on a friend's deck in Asheville, for the first time, I felt a confidence emerge that whispered everything is OK.

In Asheville’s vibrant leadership landscape, something special happens when minds gather monthly at Mojo Coworking. We call it Leadership on Tap – a space where leaders come together to ignite meaningful and unexpected conversations.

Standing on the bridge Friday afternoon on Sept. 27, 2024, I witnessed something I'll never forget.

The world is buzzing about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Every day brings a new wave of headlines proclaiming groundbreaking advancements, potential disruptions, and even dire warnings. It's enough to make anyone's head spin, especially business leaders who are trying to make strategic decisions in this rapidly evolving landscape.