Are Your Mindsets Helping You Become Who You’re Meant to Be?
How to Align Your Inner World with Your Highest Aspirations We all want to grow. We set goals, pursue promotions, seek deeper relationships, or try to lead more effectively. We invest in strategies, plans, and accountability structures. And yet—progress often stalls. We hit invisible ceilings. We sabotage our momentum. Or worse, we succeed on the […]
The Real Reason Most Coaching Doesn’t Lead to Transformation
Why Horizontal Development Falls Short — and What Vertical Development Offers Instead If you’ve ever felt like you’ve “done the work” — read the books, attended the workshops, worked with a coach — but you still aren’t experiencing the transformation you hoped for, you’re not alone. In fact, that’s one of the most common experiences […]
Outpaced: Leaders are Increasingly Underprepared for the Rising Pace of Change
The latest data from Accenture’s Pulse of Change (September 2025) should stop leaders in their tracks: 90% of C-suite executives say the pace of change has accelerated since January, yet only 42% feel prepared to meet it—down from 46% earlier in the year. In other words, the gap is widening between how fast the world […]
Leaders, What If ADHD Is the Invisible Barrier You’ve Been Battling?
You’re sharp. Capable. Driven. People rely on you. And yet… You constantly feel behind. You miss appointments, forget names, lose track of tasks you swore you’d remember. You rewrite the same to-do list every morning because yesterday’s priorities evaporated the moment you opened your inbox. You bounce between hyper-focus and brain fog. Some days, you’re […]
Inflection Points: The First Step Toward True Leadership Transformation
Most people aren’t intentionally resisting growth. But they’re not actively pursuing it either. They’re simply moving with “the flow”—navigating the rhythms of life and leadership without ever questioning where that current is taking them. And here’s the hard truth: “the flow” rarely leads us to the best version of ourselves. If anything, it often steers […]
Does Your Trauma Show Up at Work: How Our Past Shapes Performance, Leadership, and Growth
In a recent article titled “When the Past Walks Into the Office”, Susan Schmitt Winchester and Dave Ulrich explores a topic that many leaders and professionals overlook but almost all experience: the invisible ways childhood trauma manifests in the workplace. He outlines nine symptoms that stem from dysfunctional early-life experiences—symptoms that, at first glance, may […]
Self-Awakening: Are You Someone Who Has “Awakened?”
Last week I wrapped up the latest cohort of “The Climb,” a 10-person vertical-development intensive that culminates in summiting a 14,000-foot peak. Actually—make that two peaks: Mount Belford and Mount Oxford, connected by a saddle of loose rock that feels designed to test both quads and character. Three days in the Rockies gave us more […]
What it is Like to Transformationally Become Better
Readers of my new book, Becoming Better, keep telling me about how powerful and impactful a specific example is in this book. The example I am referring to is of my wife. She is someone who hasn’t just become incrementally better, she has become transformationally better. Here is a quote from the book that conveys […]
The 3 Biggest Reasons Most Adults Don’t Change, Develop, or Improve
Why two-thirds of well-intentioned professionals stay stuck—and how you can break the pattern. The Paradox of Adult Growth We live in an era awash with podcasts, masterclasses, and micro-learning apps, yet roughly 64 percent of adults plateau at the very first rung of adult development—what Robert Kegan calls the Socialized Mind (or what I label […]
Brené Brown Shows Us Becoming Better Is About Upgrading Our Internal Operating System
In 2010 Brené Brown walked onstage at TEDxHouston to explain “The Power of Vulnerability.” Twenty million views later, most observers chalked her meteoric rise up to brilliant research communication skills. Skills matter, of course—but they are only half the story. What truly vaulted Brown from anxious academic to global voice of courage was an under-the-hood […]
