Recorded as I walked along the beach at sunset. Excuse the seagulls. The end of middle management is closer than most leaders realize — and what comes next is more interesting than the headlines suggest. In January 2020, just when COVID became a thing and a year before anyone outside a research lab was talking
Why the modern flow narrative doesn’t go far enough — and what flow without direction is really costing us, personally and collectively. For most of my career, I was a true believer in flow. I trained thousands of people in the Golden Zone model — match your skills to the challenge, notice anxiety if the
Since the pandemic, global searches for “what is burnout?” have risen by more than 80 percent, and searches for “signs of burnout” have spiked by more than 200 percent. We have never talked about burnout more. And yet burnout rates continue to climb. There are more articles, more podcasts, more assessments, more wellness programs, more
Resilience training is no longer niche. When I first started running resilience workshops, it was necessary to spend the first fifteen minutes defining the concept and justifying the need. People wanted to know: Is this therapy? Is it a motivational talk? Is it relevant to our actual work? Is this about doing more with less?
There are moments in a career where you don’t just join an organization—you grow with it. For me, that organization was the Resilience Institute. At the time of writing, I’ve spent over a decade working across nearly every part of the business—technology, innovation, content, marketing, growth, and delivery—supporting thousands of leaders and teams around the