Seth Kahan

60th Birthday Special!

I’m super excited! Today, July 9th is my 60th birthday! I’ve circumnavigated the sun 60 times on planet Earth, and I’ve gathered a whole bevy of experiences.I’ve had the opportunity to leverage those experiences working with World Bank, leading change at Royal Dutch Shell, helping to elevate the performance of Prudential Retirement’s top sales team, and […]

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Seth Kahan featured on Jim Karrh’s “Manage Your Message” podcast

Seth is featured on Jim Karrh’s podcast “Manage Your Message” discussing his new book, Visionary Leadership: How Association Leaders Embrace Disruption in the 21st Century. In the podcast, (42: Seth Kahan: The Visionary Leader), they discussed key takeaways from Seth’s new book including: the attribute of personal power, the attribute of association leadership, and the

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My Facilitator’s Handbook

The best CEOs are excellent facilitators. They understand facilitation and take time to investigate liberating exercises that highlight and leverage the expertise of a group to be applied to both opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. I’ve created a facilitator’s handbook as a guide through the basics including: • How to choose a platform •

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The God of Small Things

Tonight (Sunday) I head out to Positano’s, a classic Italian restaurant near my house, to celebrate the birth of two works of art. The first is my wife’s new EP, Long Road Home, five songs she just produced in the studio with the help of the Arts & Humanities council of Montgomery County. And the

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6 Questions for Strategy

Today, I want to share with you six questions that I have found extremely helpful when developing strategy. They’re specific to associations, and they are inspired by Richard Rumelt’s model that he lays out in his excellent book, “Good Strategy/Bad Strategy.” What cannot change? What are the biggest hurdles your association is facing today? What

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Gratitude

The Psychologist in an article entitled, Gratitude – Parent of all virtues, states “…around 18.5 percent of individual differences in people’s happiness could be predicted by the amount of gratitude they feel.”* Wow! That caught my attention! It’s long been known gratitude will increase your state, but now there’s research on this important topic aplenty

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Association Leadership and Visionary Leadership

In my latest book, Visionary Leadership, How Association Leaders Embrace Disruption in the 21st Century, I identify a group of competencies that I see visionary leaders demonstrating: Association Leadership Market Acumen Personal Power Today, I discuss Association Leadership, which I break down into four specific competencies: Ecosystem leadership Leading for collective impact Collective learning Reframing

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Catch my podcast with Mary Byers promoting my new book – "Visionary Leadership"

I recently had the exciting opportunity to sit down with my good friend Mary Byers, CAE to discuss my new book Visionary Leadership: How Association Leaders Embrace Disruption in the 21st Century. Our conversation was captured in a podcast which will be available at 3pm CST June 12th. In her Successful Associations Today interview series

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