Blog - Leadership

What the Best Bosses Have In Common

So you want to be the best boss ever—but where do you start?  Should you focus on your strengths or build up your weaknesses? What if your people don’t trust you, or there’s…

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Heart-Led Leadership in a Socially-Distanced World

How do great leaders become great?  There are thousands of theories on what makes a great leader, but one rings true to my experience more than the rest. New York Times bestselling author…

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Could Remote Work Lead Us to More Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace?

Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace can be a polarizing topic. But what if we used this unique time to make it more accessible to everyone? None of us can hide our real…

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Meeting Your Customers Where They Are: How Cincinnati Opera Brings Opera to the People

As executives, team members and thought-leaders, we’re all after the same thing: To expand and diversify our audiences so that our products or services can be accessible to anyone, in any circumstance. In…

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How A Band Is Bringing Hope, Confidence and Community to Teens Around the World

Photo credit: Sam Greenhill Anxiety and depression is a growing crisis for young people. I’ve spoken at new student orientations at colleges for a number of years, and recently, the lines have been…

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Recently Promoted? How to Create A Legendary Leadership Strategy

If you recently got a promotion and are now in charge of a team (or a larger team) of people, your whole mindset for how and why you work has to evolve.  Why?…

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What We Can Learn from the Transformational Leadership Style of Alyson Lundell

Ready to hone in on your transformational leadership style? Episode #33 with Senior Director of PR at Universal Orlando Resorts Alyson Lundell will help you do just that.  Confident leaders aren’t afraid of…

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Bad Brand Reputation? 7 Ways to Turn a Booing Crowd into Raving Fans

Need to reverse a bad brand reputation—and fast? Read on for the hottest tips in the industry. I once was next to Vanilla Ice at a booth at a National Association for Campus…

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How to Reverse Your Employee Turnover Rate and Eliminate Front-Line Frustration

Employee turnover rate is an increasing issue in today’s economy, especially for corporations that rely on front-line employees to interface with customers. Here’s how to reverse turnover rates and connect all levels of…

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The Opposite of Micromanaging: Your Key to Being a Better Parent and Leader

Are you struggling to help your kids or your employees become more independent?  Whether you’re a parent or you lead people in another capacity, your job is not to micromanage—it’s the opposite of…

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Curiosity Advertising Knows That If They’re Not Having Fun, They’re Doing it Wrong

“If we’re not having fun, we’re doing it wrong,” he told me as we passed by the bobbleheads of his team members. Five minutes after I met Matt Fischer, I knew I had…

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Change Management is the New Leadership

Change is the new normal, and change management is the new leadership. Every company and every organization that I’ve worked with in the past few years has been undergoing major change due to…

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What the Military Taught Me About Living in Excellence

If it weren’t for the courageous men and women in uniform who serve in our Armed Forces, none of us would be able to live the dream to the same extent that we…

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How Great Leaders Get People to Do What They Want

Tired of being disappointed and wondering how to get people to do what you want? Try this 5-minute leadership exercise that will help you align any kind of team with your mission. I…

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The 6 Questions that Lead to a Multi-Million Dollar Business

Are you ready to take your business to the next level? I’m talking your logo on people’s shirts, super bowl commercials, raving fans, engaged employees and record-breaking revenue—quarter after quarter. But before you…

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Why Every Leader Should Learn to Mime

I’ve had the privilege of working with dozens of Fortune 500 companies in my speaking career. For all that these businesses are doing right and for all of their ingenuity, I’m always disheartened to hear…

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What Real Leadership Looks Like

Are you using your gifts to make an impact on the lives of others? There’s one thing you can do to become a great leader, and it doesn’t have anything to do with project management…

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Don’t Be the Next Toys R Us: 7 Ways to Embrace Business Innovation

Giving my Keynote at conferences all over the nation means that I get an inside look at business innovation across industries. News flash: change is the new normal, and in order to survive,…

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