Visionary Leadership

One of the lessons I’ve learned from leading large-scale change is that the problem you see is often not the problem you need to solve. Years ago, I worked with the American Nurses Association on Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation, an initiative to measurably improve the health of America’s nurses. One issue we encountered was surprisingly […]

Last weekend I saw a sculpture of a man carving himself out of a block of stone in the Hindu temple, BAPS Shri Swaminarayan. The man wasn’t carving something separate, but bringing himself out of the stone with deliberation. It reminded me that we are not simply discovered. We create ourselves. In the language of

Ron Heifetz, a Leadership lecturer at Harvard University, taught me that one of the best ways to develop leaders is to throw them into the deep end of the pool and not necessarily throw them a life preserver. You can provide coaching, guidance, and provocative questions, but you must let them figure out the solutions

Global Harmony Through Personal Excellence is a small organization here in the Washington, DC, area, run by a very close and loved friend of mine with the support of volunteers. Its mission is to support the expression and humanity of children. I give money every winter to this amazing initiative. It includes both an essay

When we hear the term “racial equity,” we tend to think of the beneficiaries as the employees, a limited view. For 13 years, I worked with the World Bank, where I had the opportunity to work side by side and under the leadership of women and people of color. I can tell you that diversity

What is a march? It occurs in military campaigns, musical compositions, protests, and parades. It means to advance inexorably. A march is not something that is stopped. It is a dedicated mass movement. Marching is what we are doing now, marching arm-in-arm six-feet-apart around the globe. Scientists, manufacturers, healthcare workers, citizens… Like the inevitable spring,

These are tough times, but this is what associations are made for. This is our chance to step up and serve our members when they need it the most. I have been in touch with over 100 association executives and we’ve had the opportunity to identify the most important issues associations are facing today. This

I created the Visionary Leadership Academy (VLA) in response to Chris McEntee’s, CEO of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), need for a forum to teach her executive team the same core skills I was teaching her and other CEOs in my CEO community. A new VLA session will take place on March 10th at the