Most leadership development focuses on what you do: how you communicate, how you decide, how you perform under pressure. Very little of it addresses who you are when the pressure arrives. This article is about...

Organizations invest considerable time and resources developing people. They teach leaders to communicate more effectively, encourage employees to become more resilient, ask teams to take greater...

I used to think strength was something you either had or did not have. Then life taught me otherwise. Strength can be built in rooms you never wanted to enter, in circumstances you would...

Seeing my book, Leadership Without Sugarcoating: The Decision, the Price, and What Remains, on a shelf at Orell Füssli in the centre of Zurich made me pause and smile. Behind those pages were...

You can be intelligent, experienced, and successful, yet spend days thinking about a decision you could have made in minutes. The answer is not always more information. Sometimes it is learning when...

When the same problem survives new processes, reorganizations, technology and capable people, another solution may not be what is missing. Sometimes the better move is to change how you are looking at the system...

AI is changing leadership. It can analyze information faster, identify patterns, streamline processes, summarize meetings, generate ideas, predict outcomes, and take work off a leader’s plate that once...

Pressure does more than increase a utility leader’s workload. Left unexamined, it can narrow perception, reduce the options a leader can see, and quietly begin making decisions on the leader’s behalf.

“We need to improve communication.” It is one of the most common diagnoses leaders give when a team is not performing as well as expected. Sometimes it is accurate. But sometimes the team is already...

There is a particular frustration that many intelligent, self-aware people eventually encounter: they understand themselves remarkably well, yet some of their most persistent patterns remain unchanged...

Business owners spend countless hours chasing better marketing, technology, and growth strategies. But in an increasingly noisy and distrustful marketplace, one of the most powerful...

People often ask me what I do, and I understand why the answer surprises them. No, I am not a coach. Normally, I don’t help you check boxes, i.e., person check, leader check, nonconformist, nor...

We are often told to “find ourselves,” as though somewhere underneath the noise there is a finished version of us waiting to be discovered. But what if identity is not only something we uncover? What...

Being able to support authors and speakers in using their voices for impact is a privilege, and I had the pleasure of sitting down with Maria DeLorenzis Reyes to talk about her powerful new book, "Unedited: Women’s...

There is an assumption in business that I have never completely understood. Someone becomes a successful CEO. They build a large organisation, deliver strong profits, complete acquisitions and...

Do you ever wonder whether your team feels supported or burnt out after a tough week? As leaders, we spend a lot of time thinking about what our teams do: Did they hit the target, meet the deadline...

Every coaching engagement eventually faces the same question, did it work? In individual coaching, the question is hard enough, change at the level of behavior and belief is rarely linear, and the...

If everyone who trained with me went away and created exactly the same sound baths I do, I’m not sure I would consider that a success. That might sound strange coming from someone who teaches practitioners.

Before asking people to believe in a vision for a place, a hospitality leader needs to understand what it will ask of them. The people who work there have to carry it through, while neighbors live...

Workplace conflict is not always as simple as identifying one difficult manager. Sometimes the behavior employees experience is shaped by deeper organizational pressures, unclear structures...

I was wandering through the narrow streets of a small village in Sicily, which I've now visited for three consecutive years, when someone called my name. “Christina!” I turned around, and there was...

Being responsible for a team, an organization, or major business decisions already requires significant time, energy, and attention. Add parenting to that equation, and the pressure can feel very...

Leadership decisions are often shaped by subconscious patterns formed long before someone steps into a position of authority. This article explores how hidden fears and protective behaviors can drive...

Written by Michael J McCusker, Founder & Podcast Host Michael J McCusker is a Global Freedom Fellow, a multi-book author, and host of the acclaimed “Lived Experience Podcast Series.” He’s a respected advocate for justice reform and a thought leader in Lived Experience Leadership, using storytelling to spark social change. Those who understand this shift are no longer chasing engagement. There was a time when showing up consistently online was enough. Volume signalled relevanc