When you’re doing something big — orchestrating a FROM → TO shift, launching a new product, or going after a new career opportunity — you’re starting a journey. You’ll get to your destination faster – and have more fun – when you take people on the journey with you, sharing where you’re going and why.
Read MoreThere’s something powerful about a good quote. It can shift my mood in an instant—make me laugh, help me let go of an unhelpful story I’m telling myself, or offer a new perspective. When that happens, I do what I’ve done for more than thirty years: I add it to my collection of quotes that inspire, provoke, and fuel me.
Read MoreI recently had the opportunity to work with a leadership team I spent time with last year. In preparation for this year’s workshop, I interviewed each team member to get a sense of how their year has unfolded, what they’re currently challenged by and what they’ve been practicing since last year’s workshop. Two practices emerged in response to that last question: pausing and pulling up and having more sweaty five minute conversations.
Read MoreAnything in your world causing that feeling of unsettledness? I imagine many of you responding with, “How much time do you have, Ben?”
I recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of my first trip to the Garden Isle of Kauai. Kauai is the one place where I am guaranteed to experience a giant exhale the moment I step off the plane. With this trip’s exhale came the realization of three activities that were pulling me into a trance of avoidance around the feeling of unsettledness.
Read More“Are there any common themes with people you coach?”
Reflecting on the clients I’ve had the privilege to work with over the last decade, several themes emerge. The biggest one? Every individual reached out because they were looking to make a shift, moving FROM one state TO another. The second theme? They often didn’t realize what shift they were in the middle of!
Read MoreIn the 1950s classic film All About Eve, Bette Davis speaks one of the great movie lines of all time: “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” There is quite a bit of bumpiness in the world right now. As Korn Ferry’s Gary Burnison shared in his recent newsletter, “90 percent of leadership is ambiguous. Everywhere we look, there’s ambiguity and all its synonyms: uncertainty, obscurity, vagueness, doubt, puzzle, and enigma.” Bumpiness, indeed.
Read MoreOver the past 30 days I’ve helped clients hone in on their Big Rocks for the year ahead. As part of that process clients often ask about my Big Rocks, which I’m happy to share – especially my biggest Big Rock for 2025: Lower my preoccupation with my thoughts and feelings.
Read MoreWhen I was working 12+ hour days in my thirties I remember thinking, "If I can just make it to 50."
My True North is meaningful relationships, meaningful work, and meaningful experiences in that order, always. I'm profoundly grateful to be engaged in a vocation that brings all three of those together.
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