Karin & David’s Leadership Articles
4 Critical Communication Skills for Managing Up with Style and Grace
Managing up well will build your influence, reduce stress, and improve your team’s performance. “How do I change my boss?” This is one of the...
How to Disagree with Your Boss Without Derailing Your Career
Your Ability to Disagree with Your Boss Constructively is a Game-Changing Leadership Skill Ever faced one of those moments when your boss rolls...
The Collaboration Checklist for Leaders: Five Questions to Guide Better Decisions
This Quick Gut Check That Can Save Your Team Hours of Rework You move fast. Decisions pile up. Calendars fill. But in the rush to deliver, it’s...
More Than a Chat: How to Make Your Career Conversations Count
This Practical Planner Could Change Your Career Conversations Let’s talk career converations—and how to get the support you need to make them...
Left Out of the Loop? Here’s How to Step Back In with Confidence
When You're the Stakeholder AND Out of the Loop You’re reading the latest executive update when it hits you: you’ve been left out of the...
Wisdom at Work: What Wise People Say When Stakes are High
What Wisdom at Work Looks Like (and How to Cultivate More of It) You’ve probably worked with someone you’d describe as having wisdom at work....
David Dye’s Leadership Without Losing Your Soul Podcast
10 Ways Fear Undermines Your Leadership Skills and What to Do to Fight Burnout
Episode 312: What if the secret to becoming a more confident leader and fighting burnout is learning to recognize how fear is running the show?...
How to Improve Your Productivity by Mastering 1 Critical Leadership Communication Skill
Episode 311: Want to master a leadership communication skill that helps you be more productive, avoid overwhelm, without hurting relationships or...
4 Leadership Assumptions that Limit Your Team’s Productivity
Episode 310: Which leadership assumptions are quietly sabotaging your team—and what if you don’t even know you’re making them? If you’ve ever...
Karin Hurt’s ASKING FOR A FRIEND VLOG
Personal Courage: How to Focus on What You Want (Not What You Fear)
Practical Ways to Summon a Bit More Personal Courage You want more personal courage. You want to take that bold step, make the big decision, or...
Sudden layoff: How Do I Help My Friend Who Just Lost Their Job?
Practical Ways to Show Up as a Human-Centered Supporter after a Sudden Layoff Your friend just lost their job—suddenly, unfairly, and without...
How to Thrive When Your Boss is Disengaged
You Care. Your Boss Doesn't (Or So It Seems). What to Do Next With a Disengaged Boss You’re giving it your all. You’re solving problems, driving...


















