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July 14, 2025

Rethinking Leadership Tools: How Your Space Shapes Your Impact

When we think about leadership tools, we usually imagine frameworks, calendars, or mindset hacks. But what if one of the most overlooked tools for leadership success […]
July 9, 2025

Law #5: The Law of Presence | The 10 Laws Of High Performance Collaboration | On Connection

Presence – All improvement begins with what is present Leadership Under Pressure Starts With Presence Leaders who can attune to their own cognitive, emotional, and physical […]
July 7, 2025

Navigating Uncertainty in 2025: 3 Must-Haves for Resilient Leadership

Navigating uncertainty has become a defining skill for today’s leaders. In a volatile landscape, marked by DOGE cuts affecting budgets and staffing, potential recession due to […]
July 2, 2025

Law #4: The Law of Authenticity | The 10 Laws Of High Performance Collaboration | On Connection

Law #4: Authenticity – “Pivot to purpose in the face of fear, threat & disappointment”. Life, and life at work, bring plenty of opportunities for disruption, […]
June 25, 2025

Law #3: The Law of Connection | The 10 Laws Of High Performance Collaboration | On Connection

Law #3: The Law of Connection – “The conversations are the work.” In today’s complex, fast-moving organizations, leaders are under constant pressure to drive results, manage […]
June 24, 2025

From Stuck To Successful: Use The Conversation Meter to Build Leadership Development Skills for New Managers

From Stuck To Successful: Use The Conversation Meter to Build Leadership Development Skills for New Managers Congrats – you’ve just been promoted! But, now you feel […]
June 18, 2025

Law #2: The Law of Listening | The 10 Laws Of High Performance Collaboration | On Connection

Episode 2: The Law of Listening – “The test for listening is learning.” In today’s fast-paced, high-stakes environments, leaders are expected to drive results while fostering […]
June 16, 2025

Leadership Development: How to Invite Difference for Effective Cross Functional Collaboration

From Boss to Guide: Why Leadership is About Inviting Difference and Building Cross Functional Collaboration Versus Demanding Compliance Many of us remember the movie Toy Story […]
June 11, 2025

Law #1: The Law of Teamwork | The 10 Laws Of High Performance Collaboration | On Connection

Episode 1: The Law of Teamwork — “The Source of Teamwork is a Common Future” What makes a group of people into a team?Not just shared […]
June 11, 2025

Leadership Development: The Backroad to Brilliance by Conversant

Leadership Development Through Failure: The Backroad to Brilliance    What Great Leaders Do Differently One of the names for discovery is failure. Another of its names […]
June 4, 2025

Introduction | The 10 Laws Of High Performance Collaboration | On Connection

The most powerful tool a leader has? The next conversation. Welcome to the first episode of our new series, The 10 Laws of High-Performance Collaboration—a series […]
May 14, 2025

Five Principles Of Authentic Team Feedback and Cross Functional Collaboration

Building Habits Of Authentic Feedback For High-Performing Team and Cross Functional Collaboration “Unexpressed expectations are resentment under construction.”—Anne Lamott Every leader wants a team that’s adaptable, […]
April 14, 2025

What Drives Our Habitual Patterns? A Deep Look Into Underlying Sensations.

A major contributor to our habits and tendencies is our underlying sensation patterns. All Humans Are Semi-Conscious of What Drives Us Imagine you are on a […]
March 31, 2025

From Doer to Leader: Cultivating Trust in Your Team

Leadership requires learning how to balance two seemingly opposing priorities: 1) being accountable for an expected team outcome or result, and 2) the need to delegate […]
March 19, 2025

The Art of Leadership: Caring For vs. Caretaking

Spoiler: Ask better questions A common question most leaders ask themselves is: What can I do to better support my people? A better question for leaders […]
March 9, 2025

The Power of Conversations in the Age of AI: The One Skill That Won’t Be Automated 

The Power of Conversations in the Age of AI: The One Skill That Won’t Be Automated The Machine That Never Blinked In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue […]
February 19, 2025

Driving Change & Systemic Prosperity through Conscious Leadership | On Connection

Leaders across industries and geographies are having to learn what it takes to drive progress in dynamic and unpredictable times. In this episode of On Connection, […]
January 29, 2025

Transformative Leadership: Love, Fire, and Community Resilience, with Lenya Quinn-Davidson | On Connection

  In this episode of On Connection, we sit down with Lenya Quinn-Davidson, Fire Network Director at the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources. Lenya shares […]
December 23, 2024

Being Green, Seeing Red, and Feeling Blue: Why I Wouldn’t Want to Work in Oz  

Does who we are inform how we are?   When working with clients, we often say that “Presence is the first act of leadership.” What we […]
December 18, 2024

Work & Well-being: Creating the conditions for people & organizations to thrive | On Connection

Balancing work and well-being is a constant challenge for many, particularly for leaders who are managing both people and organizational commitments. Well-being easily slips down the […]
December 9, 2024

The Power of Emotion

I was working with a client recently, a group of about 10 leaders responsible for choosing strategic priorities for their organization, and the were struggling to […]
December 4, 2024

An Authentic Approach to Diversity & Inclusion, with Pedro Zannoni | On Connection

  In this episode of On Connection, host Robin Anselmi interviews Pedro Zannoni, CEO of Lacoste Latin America. With a rich background in the sporting and […]
November 14, 2024

Leading Without Authority: Strategies for Directing Action & Influencing Others | On Connection

  Organizations rely on leaders to effectively direct action and inspire collaborative work even when they don’t have direct authority over everyone they need to influence. […]
November 7, 2024

Standing in Purpose to Lead and Collaborate Without Authority

Remember the good ol’ days when you could tell people what to do and they’d do it?  Yeah, we don’t either.  The reality is in most […]
October 31, 2024

Talking Strategy: How to Have Effective Strategic Planning & Budget Conversations | On Connection

Strategic planning and budget setting are core responsibilities for organizational leaders, yet they often come with unique challenges. These processes rely on a series of crucial […]