Are you an executive committed to balancing gender ratios at senior levels?  Have you struggled with what, exactly, you can do to increase the odds for women?  In my last article I advocated for taking risks to promote more women. But what if you aren't...

Increasing the numbers of women in key executive roles... What's taking so long? Why is is so hard to do? What can we do, now?

"To lead is to live dangerously."  Ronald Heifitz

She was most famous for being a world-renowned chef - the Queen of Creole Cuisine....but she also

was a Civil Rights activist who hosted and fed the Freedom Riders, Dr Martin Luther King, Thurgood Marshall, and meeti...

Leadership Implies Change

To me, the very essence of leadership is creating something better.   Making what better?  A better future, usually.  The question I always ask of leaders is "What will be better in the world because you ...?" Better in the world because you le...

What a wonderful, rewarding day I had last Thursday….

I had the usual facilitator's excited, anticipatory feelings that morning as the 46 leadership session participants streamed into the room with curious, even confused looks on their faces.  Things looked little diffe...

When I first heard Peter Block* make the statement "you create the culture of the room you are in" (probably 30 years ago), I was skeptical.  I had studied cultures, how they form, how they evolve, how to change them, why you can't change them, read all the books. This...