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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.

A 10-Minute Practice for the Season Ahead

As summer gives way to fall, shifts in daylight, sleep, temperature, and time outdoors can influence mood and the body’s stress response.

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.

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.

The Fine Line Between Conviction and Stubbornness

Without calm as our foundation, we become like emotional corks tossed about on a turbulent sea – reactive rather than responsive, at the mercy of circumstances rather than in command of our choices.

Seeing the Whole: How Leaders Practice Systems Thinking

Like metallurgists ensuring the proper balance of chromium, nickel, and iron, leaders must notice not just the major crises but also the nuance of subtle shifts that signal the organization’s balance is changing.

Finding Calm in the Moment

Standing outside the room, I leaned on what I’ve learned about managing stress to keep my anxious energy from entering the session with me.

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.

Reactivity, Which We Call the Public Face of Anxiety

Reactivity, Which We Call the Public Face of Anxiety The resilient leader is one who has learned to watch for

Family Matters Really Matter

I learned a lot during this very difficult time as I watched the principles of Resilient Leadership in action.

Understanding the Emotional System

We represent a paradigm shift in how leaders can see, think, and lead in ways that are distinctively different from traditional models of leadership.

Paradigm Shift

We represent a paradigm shift in how leaders can see, think, and lead in ways that are distinctively different from traditional models of leadership.

Lead with Conviction — Acting Boldly in the Face of Increasing Complexity and Escalating Change Leadership

I suddenly found myself frequently experiencing the powerful emotions of residents and team members on concerns that were important to them.

Staying Out of Fix-it Mode

I suddenly found myself frequently experiencing the powerful emotions of residents and team members on concerns that were important to them.

Frozen on the Inside

I suddenly found myself frequently experiencing the powerful emotions of residents and team members on concerns that were important to them.

Fear Does Not Equal Anxiety

Fear is adaptive. It teaches us to be safe and avoid danger. Anxiety is maladaptive. It’s our brain being over active when we are short of actual facts.