Leadership Humility: How Can I Coach Humility in my Team? (Video)
Developing the dance between ambition and humility, especially in your successful team members who may not demonstrate much leadership humility, requires intentional coaching. Amer Kaissi and I discuss this in part 3 (of 3) in our Asking for a Friend series based on...
How I Learned the Importance of Being an Authentic Leader
How I Learned the Powerful Impact of Authenticity (the Hard Way) Did you ever THINK you show up as an authentic leader, but as it turned out, you were really screwing up? Yeah, me too. This is how I learned the importance of being an authentic leader the hard way. I...
Leadership and a Culture of Feedback with Neil Khaund
How do you build a culture of feedback? In this episode, Neil Khaund, President and CEO of The National Society of Leadership and Success (NSLS), the largest accredited leadership honor society in the United States, explains why creating a culture of feedback is...
Leadership Humility: How Can I Be Driven and Humble? (Video)
Staying Humble, Yet Also Ambitious Today, I share part two of my Asking for a Friend interview with Amer Kaissi on the important intersection of humility and ambition. I was particularly struck by Amer’s practical leadership humility technique of...
Creating Clarity: Strategic Activities For Human Centered Leaders
Without clear direction, it’s nearly impossible to motivate, accelerate, innovate, or even celebrate. Your team can’t achieve breakthrough results if you don’t have a shared understanding of what success looks like. Creating clarity is one of the...
Can I Be Both Humble and Ambitious? #Askingforafriend (Video)
Amer Kaissi Shares Insights on the Power of Humbition If you’ve been following me for a bit you know that I’m all about confident humility. Watching leaders with and without it inspired my first blog posts a decade ago while still working at Verizon. And...
Human-Centered Communication with Lizabeth Wesely-Casella
Ready for some brilliant approaches to human-centered communication? In this episode, David talks with Lizabeth Wesely-Casella, founder and CEO of L-12 Services; a Washington DC firm focused on internal communications, organizational development, and human-centered...
Courageous Questions: How to Make It Easier to Get Better Insights
If you want better insights, ask clearer questions. Particularly during times of uncertainty and change, one of the easiest ways to know what’s really going on is to (1) get clarity about what you don’t know and (2) ask your team some courageous questions....
