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Act Fast, Fail Fast, Learn Fast?

A recent study in Scientific American showed that people learn faster when they are free to choose which action they make, even if the choice initially leads to a negative outcome.

Mindset 3: Embrace the Mess and Enjoy the Reward

“Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves.” That’s what Cheryl Strayed concludes in her best-selling memoir, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.

Finding a Way Forward, Together.

When it comes to diversity in the workplace, the real work is only beginning, and the only way forward is together. To do so, we need to consider an area where the workforce is already diverse: age.

Turning Empathy into Action

If empathy is the great connector, compassion is the bridge between emotion and action...

Blow In, Blow Up, Blow Out

Close your eyes and imagine this with me: There’s a guy on the stage playing his heart out on a piano and he’s delivering a sermon...

Mindset 2: Authenticity Before Action

In August, astronauts safely splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico, completing NASA’s first successful mission in partnership with a commercial space flight company, Elon Musk’s SpaceX....

Turning A Splash Into A Flood

One of my “lean in” moments is to focus on the intensity of human connectedness and the responsibility we have for each...

Compassion and the Man in the Mirror

Over the past several months, I’ve been on a journey to explore the topic of compassion, especially reflecting on compassion as the act of...

Finding Joy in the Yuck

Thirty frickin’ more days of social distancing. Really? The other night, we learned that we were going to have to live in our new norm...

Don't Think Outside the (Check Box).

US companies spend $8 billion a year on diversity and inclusion initiatives—with squat to show for it...

Shift Your Mindset and Move To Healing

What do radical relationships look like in America? Consider an episode of Black-ish in which Dre Johnson finds a girl in an elevator.

Healing the Divide

Just like so many of you, I’m struggling with our current world. So much tension. So much division. So little care for people who think differently than we do. This blog may get a bit more personal than usual, but I have to tell the story....

Flipping the Script: From Scarcity to Abundance

Today, do you choose to live in fear, anxiety, and worry? Or, are you able to flip that and lean into...

Who Will Be in Room 716?

Thursday, March 19th, 2020, will be a day I’ll never forget. My team and I landed in Southern California in the midst of the most...