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Check in on our Resilient Leadership Master Class practices that will help you keep Resilient Leadership top of mind. Learn how to “SEE”, “THINK”, and “LEAD” in the world of emotional systems that encircle everything we do. Visit this page often or subscribe below for automatic updates sent to your email.

Lowering the Voltage: What Dogs, Vets, and Leaders Know About Anxiety

Being a Step-Down Transformer isn’t about suppressing emotion, or fixing others, it’s about regulating yourself well enough that you don’t unknowingly escalate existing stress.

Standing Steady: How to Lead with Conviction

At its best, leadership conviction shows up as clarity, courage, and a willingness to take action even when outcomes are uncertain.

Cultivating & Calibrating Connection

At its best, a healthy leadership looks: responsive, energized, and still self-possessed. At its worst, conviction can harden.

Transforming Triangles

Nothing about the situation with my phone had changed. But something in me had.

Minding the Empathy Trap

It’s hard to find someone who says that empathy is not a good thing. It’s often touted as a primary quality of leadership.

What you do in the ninety seconds after?

A Resilient Leadership approach comes down to three moves, repeated over and over can provide calm, clarity, and conviction.

RL Practice of the Month

Check in on practices that will help you keep Resilient Leadership top of mind.  Learn how to “SEE”, “THINK” and “LEAD” in the world of emotional systems that encircles everything we do. Visit this page often or subscribe below for automatic updates sent to your e-mail.

The Butterfly – The Danger of Helping Too Much

If you are overfunctioning in your leadership role, there is underfunctioning somewhere in the system you lead.

Navigating Succession: A Leader’s Journey To Successful Transition

My situation illustrates 2 of Resilient Leadership’s key principles—anxiety is contagious, and the leader’s anxiety is most contagious of all!

Embracing a New Chapter from Classroom to Leadership Development

Asking good questions helps develop a less anxious presence. The Resilient Leadership Coach Certification Program helps develop this presence.

Feeling Overwhelmed by Change?

A well-informed leader adeptly navigates change with thoughtfulness, minimizing resistance fueled by anxiety, and ensures a smoothly communicated transition.

Curiosity Comes in Handy

When encountering difficulties at work, our automatic response typically involves judgment and action. This response is unsurprising…

On The 2024 RL Balcony

Another year filled with many opportunities to exercise leadership—for ourselves and others—every one of the 366 days in 2024.

Weekly Insights, Viewpoints, & Resources

Follow our weekly updates for insights and practices offered by our Certified RL Coaches and Trainers. Learn with and from these RL experts as they work to deepen their knowledge and practice of Resilient Leadership.

Transforming Triangles

Nothing about the situation with my phone had changed. But something in me had.

Cultivating & Calibrating Connection

At its best, a healthy leadership looks: responsive, energized, and still self-possessed. At its worst, conviction can harden.

They Won’t Remember Your Strategy, But They’ll Never Forget Your Calm.

At its best, leadership conviction shows up as clarity, courage, and a willingness to take action even when outcomes are uncertain.

Standing Steady: How to Lead with Conviction

At its best, leadership conviction shows up as clarity, courage, and a willingness to take action even when outcomes are uncertain.

Lowering the Voltage: What Dogs, Vets, and Leaders Know About Anxiety

Being a Step-Down Transformer isn’t about suppressing emotion, or fixing others, it’s about regulating yourself well enough that you don’t unknowingly escalate existing stress.

December Practices. January Impact.

From a Resilient Leadership® perspective, leadership impact is systemic. What leaders practice under pressure isn’t limited to December.

The Emotional Cork: Why We React and How to Stop

In Resilient Leadership, that “pop” is not random. It is the visible sign of something building beneath the surface.

The Emotional System of a Team: What December Teaches Us About Leadership Dynamics

The most grounded leaders don’t just grind through December. They close it with intention. They step back, reflect, and reset.