Leaders looking for equity leadershipIn my work helping many public sector leaders lean into innovation and design and create new roles for their organizations, my colleagues and I have borrowed learnings from other sectors. We’ve engaged with trainings, speakers and concepts that have helped support innovation, creative thinking and design for all types of sectors and applied them to community-based …

How to encourage your team in a time of disruption.I was fortunate to attend a wonderful college, a long time ago, that was much more than just earning a degree. It was a special place that invested in me as a person and expanded my world-view, inspiring much of my career to be focused in global contexts.  The well-known Reverend …

We all have different ways to deal with change.We all have different preferences in how we like to do change.  I talk about this in all my programs and services. The last several weeks have been a bit of change overload, even for the small group of us that get really excited about change.  Change is hard.  Yes, we know.  …

Instilling hope for leadersI’ve been thinking a lot about hope lately.  Maybe its because I’m personally hoping with all of my might that as many of us as humanly possible come out the other side of this coronavirus pandemic safely with our lives and livelihoods intact.  I’m a systems level thinker so that means I’ve been focused on the big- …