My March Leadership Bootcamp just wrapped up and I have to admit that I think I have more fun each time I run it. This time, EVERY attendee gave the program the highest rating possible in ALL categories! Maybe we’re hitting our stride? As a reminder, Leadership Bootcamp is a two-day, twelve-hour introduction to authenticContinue reading ““I’ll be back for part 2!””
Category Archives: Leading with Moral Authority
Leadership Circle Profile: Take your team, and your career, to the next level
I’m excited to share that I now offer the Leadership Circle Profile (LCP) as part of my executive and leadership development services. The LCP is a powerful 360-degree assessment tool that empowers the shift necessary for true and lasting individual and team transformation. What makes this assessment different is that it looks at both theContinue reading “Leadership Circle Profile: Take your team, and your career, to the next level”
Am I a modern Luddite?
I was at a meeting the other day when, after a bit of small talk, the conversation shifted to AI. It seems that everything shifts to AI these days. It floods our LinkedIn feeds with AI slop, blocks our use of every piece of software we encounter with it’s pop-ups and sidebars, and prevents usContinue reading “Am I a modern Luddite?”
On local business’ role in a thriving community
My reading list so far this year has been pretty heavy on community development and civic leadership topics. And it’s got me thinking. In the same way that those of us in the business advising space think of a business like an ecosystem, a collection of loosely coupled entities that all work together to createContinue reading “On local business’ role in a thriving community”
The world needs fewer leaders, more “First Followers”
We have a tendency to romanticize the person who brings us innovative, new, or breakthrough solutions to sticky problems. The lightbulb (Edison), the automobile (Ford), X-rays (Curie), and more, we put the person who brought it to the masses on a pedestal, look to them as someone to emulate, someone we can learn from, whoContinue reading “The world needs fewer leaders, more “First Followers””
Reflecting on a year in transition
I moved back to my hometown last year because I inherited the family farm. Returning to a small, rustbelt community after being away for literally decades was a bit of a culture shock. In some ways it was good and in some ways, not so good. But mostly I’ve discovered that things aren’t necessarily betterContinue reading “Reflecting on a year in transition”
On the collapse of the local business
It’s 2 degrees F outside right now and I’ve just finished loading our woodburrner for the second time. The first time was at 5 AM when it was a paltry 60 degrees in our house. Let me tell you, heating exclusively with wood sounds nostalgic, romantic, fun even until the fire has gone completely out,Continue reading “On the collapse of the local business”
On the false narrative of scarcity
The American Economic Association says [economics is] ‘the study of scarcity …’ Anything and everything in a market is implicitly defined as scarce. With scarcity as the main principle, the mindset that follows is based on commoditization of goods and services.” — Robin Wall Kimmerer in The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural WorldContinue reading “On the false narrative of scarcity”
Who says you can’t fight city hall? An update on the chicken fans of Mansfield, Ohio
You might remember that a couple months ago I posted about a conversation I overheard in a coffee shop. It was a “small but passionate cohort of chicken fans” and they were trying to get the city to allow chickens in urban yards. And you might have thought, I was crazy for even suggesting thatContinue reading “Who says you can’t fight city hall? An update on the chicken fans of Mansfield, Ohio”
Today’s Lesson from the Coffee Shop
First posted on LinkedIn in October 2025. So I am in a coffee shop again today doing some work. And the group next to me is discussing chickens. I can’t really overhear the whole conversation, and even if I could I would not share it in this public forum (or anywhere, actually), but what I’veContinue reading “Today’s Lesson from the Coffee Shop”
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