Why Breathing Room Won't Happen Unless You Protect It, and How to Build It Into Your Organization
Breathing room isn't a luxury, it's the foundation of sustainable leadership. Learn why reflection keeps slipping away and 3 concrete ways to protect it.
Mid-Year Strategic Plan Review: Q2 Assessment Guide for Leaders
As we approach the end of Q2 2026, it's the perfect time to assess your strategic plan. Whether you're leading a nonprofit, small business, or team, I help organizations like yours evaluate progress, integrate feedback, and build leadership capacity that drives the results you’re working towards rooted in care for the people doing the work.
Meaningful Celebrations at Work
practical actions to design your celebrations so they actually serve their purpose.
Build human wellbeing into hiring
Most hiring processes feel like a gauntlet. But you can make changes that shift them from "stay away" to "we look forward to welcoming you."
Our "Professional" Masks are Cracking, And That is a Good Thing
Join Rex, Crystal and Myself for as many sessions as you can and you’ll be adding to your skills sets in sustainable strategies for navigating the challenges we are facing, together.
Building Your Personal Mentoring Board: A Guide to Strategic Relationship Building
Rather than relying on a single mentor, consider building a mentoring board - a diverse group of advisors who can offer different perspectives on your challenges and opportunities.
Why Ongoing Coaching Beats One-Time Training Every Time
Real change takes practice, reflection, feedback, and time to adjust. Without those things, even the best training can fade quickly once people return to their daily pressures and routines. That’s where ongoing coaching makes the difference.
Question-Based Supervision: Moving from Telling to Asking
This resource was created to support supervisors in shifting from directive to developmental approaches, particularly in environments where both autonomy and safety are priorities.
When Life Happens to Your Strategic Plan: Adaptive Strategic Planning for the Real World
Strategic planning provides clarity and direction - Even when that direction needs to shift. A good plan gives you a North Star to navigate by, not a rigid GPS route that breaks when there's construction or an accident.
Creating Space to Think: The Business Case for Regular Reflection Time
Because in a world moving at the speed of making the most and trying to do it all most efficiently, your “competitive advantage” might be that you’ve built into your systems time and energy to pause, think, and learn as you move forward, and your staff and employees are feeling more resourced because of that!
Daily Practices for a More Human-Centered Culture
I offer you five practices that could be used daily or weekly that are about centering the well being of each person on your team. I invite you to review these and then select one to try for the next few weeks.
5 ways to practice more presence with colleagues
Remember how choosing presence over agenda can create deeper workplace connections and meaningful relationships. Learn 5 practical ways to build authentic professional bonds through intentional presence, co-working, and spontaneous gatherings. This grief-inspired blog post is about being fully present with colleagues and friends, moving beyond meeting agendas to create lasting human connections at work.