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Growth, innovation, and change are team sports. Guiding an organization or community from here to there is too complex an undertaking for any one individual, regardless of how smart or…

OBJECTIVES AND APPROACH. This Introduction to Executive Presence workshop is designed to give you an introduction to some tools and frameworks you can use to significantly enhance your presence as…

In late April 2023, I was invited to participate in a production of Listen to Your Mother, a national series of live readings by local writers in celebration of Mother’s…

Scientific philanthropy is the practice of designing and guiding partnerships between private donors and scientists to support research and innovation. Executive presence is the ability to project warmth, competence, self-confidence,…

When asked in an interview about the best advice he ever got as a performer, comedian and actor Billy Crystal recalled a conversation with his manager, Jack Rollins. Earlier in…

I’ve found that students don’t always know how to ask questions in class discussions, especially questions of one another. But, they can learn this skill. I’ve prepared the following that…

Unfreeze. Change. Refreeze. It was a useful metaphor for understanding organizational change when it was first introduced. We have German-American psychologist Kurt Lewin to thank for it. Lewin is known…

Our companies, our communities, and our planet are facing unprecedented challenges – challenges that will not be solved by a small group of people from a single organization, department, perspective,…

Among all species, our human hands are unique, not only in what they can accomplish but also in how they communicate. Human hands can paint the Sistine Chapel, pluck a…