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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.

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.

VUCA + P

More and more, we add to VUCA the reality of Polarization—a sad but expanding spread of extremism —a divisive way of thinking and acting.

Exercise Your Leadership Muscles

Our contribution to the world is diminished by our lack of connection. The longer we stay apart, the harder it will be to reconnect.

We Need To Calm Down To Find Our Reasoned Choice

A basic concept of the ancient philosophy of Stoicism is captured in the idea of Reasoned Choice. A quote from the Greek philosopher Epictetus sheds light on the meaning of Reasoned Choice.

What is my role in this?

Being curious allows you to ask, “What is at the root of what is going on here?” and “What is my role in this?”

There’s a Bit of Stan in Each of Us

Acute anxiety is a transient state of heightened stress caused by circumstances that feel threatening. One is typically very aware of the threat and consciously aware of acute anxiety. When you’re speeding down the highway, the flashing red lights of the police car pulling you over cause acute anxiety.

Stan and The Four D’s

Acute anxiety is a transient state of heightened stress caused by circumstances that feel threatening. One is typically very aware of the threat and consciously aware of acute anxiety. When you’re speeding down the highway, the flashing red lights of the police car pulling you over cause acute anxiety.

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.