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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Crisis management consultant James Lukaszewski on integrity: “Each scenario begins with and is made worse by breakdowns in integrity. And too often, people forget to question the validity of their questions, finding comfort instead in the correctness of their answers.”.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Culture Is the Way : How Leaders at Every Level Build an Organization for Speed, Impact, and Excellence by Matt Mayberry Former NFL Pro, world-renowned keynote speaker, and management consultant Matt Mayberry delivers an incisive and hands-on blueprint to employee engagement and peak productivity. Come Up for Air is that blueprint.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

. * * * Shaara Roman is the author of The Conscious Workplace: Fortify Your Culture to Thrive in Any Crisis , and the founder and CEO of The Silverene Group, a culture consulting firm that aligns people, strategy, and culture to optimize organizational performance.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Chand, a leadership author and consultant, on disruption: “A fighter pilot knows he's in the right spot when he's getting anti-aircraft fire. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

She’s the program director of Columbia University’s Master of Science in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, a negotiation consultant for the United Nations, and the CEO of the consulting agency Fisher Yoshida International. . * * * Beth Fisher-Yoshida , Ph.D., CCS, is a global expert and educator in negotiation and communication.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2019

In all my years as a consultant, I haven’t either. Founder of Giant Leap Consulting, a consulting and training company specializing in courage-building, he advises organizations—including NASA, eBay, Lenovo, Saks Fifth Avenue, Spanx, the U.S. It doesn’t matter what your company peddles.

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JUNE 8, 2021

She is the Global CEO of the international consultancy Proudfoot. Throughout her 35 years in management consulting, she has advised, led, and guided some of the world’s most prominent companies and brands through major change. If you want to be a great leader, you must first manage to engage. * * *. This is a post by Pamela Hackett.

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JUNE 1, 2023

Many companies are stuck with digital transformations that are not moving the needle.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Consultant Jeff Davidson on the need for breathing space: “When your brain is always engaged, when your neurons are always firing, when you find yourself in a continual mode of reacting and responding, instead of steering and directing, the best and brightest solutions that you are capable of producing rarely see the light of day.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

He has consulted with numerous clients, including Fortune 500 companies and management advisory firms, to demonstrate how organizational economics principles can improve a firm’s culture and, eventually, its performance.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Somebody was supposed to consult the boss. M OST WORK TEAMS have the same silent member who’s constantly dropping the ball. A slacker named “somebody.” Somebody was supposed to call the vendor. Somebody was supposed to check on the competition. But somebody never does anything. Sound familiar? Of course, it does.

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MARCH 4, 2024

And it’s a key skill for our 21st-century workplace. * * * Steve Wunker is the managing director of New Markets Advisors, a global consulting firm focused on innovation, and co-author of the new book The Innovative Leader: Step-by-Step Lessons from Top Innovators for You and Your Organization. It demands a process to make it come to life.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

Prior to founding Co-Creation Partners, he was a consultant with McKinsey and Company, most recently as a leader in their Organization Practice in North America. Before McKinsey, he worked in marketing for Pepsi Cola International and Procter & Gamble in Europe, the Middle East, and India.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 5, 2020

Change consultant David Jones on the challenges to expect when initiating change: “Once you get past the novelty of a change, you’ll find that every system in your organization is set up to reject it. Once the scripts are brought to the light they tell us a lot about how that system handles variations.”.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The antidote, I’ve found during my two decades as an accountability speaker and business consultant, is a thoughtful and persistent effort to infuse accountability into every objective, every task, and in every colleague-to-colleague and company-to-customer interaction. How can I better collaborate with colleagues? Asking Isn’t Easy.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Guy Casablanca and Anthony Casablanca are the cofounders of GriefLeaders, a training and consulting organization devoted to educating leaders on how to help grieving employees excel at work. He currently manages a funeral home in Loveland, Colorado.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

He has over 25 years of experience as a management consultant in the financial services industry, advising clients on technology, process, risk, and large-scale business and digital transformations. His book, Digital Transformation Success: Achieving Alignment and Delivering Results with the Process Inventory Framework (Apress, Dec.

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Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2020

Management consultant and educator Gary Hamel , on seeing the future: “Companies fail to create the future not because they fail to predict it but because they fail to imagine it. Have you ever noticed that 70 percent of the people you know are more boring at 30 than they were at 20?”.

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MAY 16, 2020

Innovation is the best and only way forward. * * * Steve Brown is a futurist, author, and executive consultant with over 30 years of experience in high tech. Steve’s consulting practice helps companies to be more prepared for the future, to become more resilient, and to drive innovation into every aspect of their business.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 20, 2020

a management consulting, marketing research and public relations firm. He also serves on the board of the Richard Nixon Foundation and is chairman of the High Point University Board of Trustees. He founded and is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of B&C Associates, Inc. ,

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

In Beyond Great , three partners from the Boston Consulting Group —Arindam Bhattacharya, Nickolaus Lang, and Jim Hemerling—make the point hat being great is no longer good enough to succeed when the very notion of outstanding business performance is being reinvented. Great is no longer good enough.

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JULY 14, 2017

He is a leadership consultant, speaker, and managing director of the consulting firm DiscoveredLOGIC. He has 20+ years of experience in corporate and government leadership, including positions as COO of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, strategy consultant with Bain & Company, and marketing executive with Capital One.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It allows leaders to approach leadership excellence from various angles and foster a climate where people enjoy showing up for work and making a valuable contribution. * * * Whitney Breer is an organizational consultant, trainer, executive coach, keynote speaker, and author of Leadership Starts with You.

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JULY 28, 2023

Don’t be shy — give it a try! * * * Buki Mosaku is the Founder and CEO of London-based DiverseCity Think Tank, a workplace-bias and diversity-and-inclusion consultancy. Practice navigating everyday bias until the approach becomes second nature. He is one of the world’s foremost bias-navigation experts.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

As long as we’re breathing and learning, it’s never too late to make positive change. * * * Michelle Gladieux is President of Gladieux Consulting , a Midwest-based team known for the design and presentation of seminars in communication and leadership topics around the U.S. We all have different growth needs. We’ll always have growth needs.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 11, 2018

Chris Edmonds is a sought-after speaker, author, and executive consultant who is the founder and CEO of The Purposeful Culture Group. After a 15-year executive career leading high performing teams, Chris began his consulting company in 1990. He has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The Five best-selling authors, Speaker Hall of Fame recipients, internationally-acclaimed business consultants and best buddies are: Joe Calloway is an expert on branding and competitive positioning and the author of Becoming A Category of One , Be The Best At What Matters Most and the Unlocking Maximum Potential blog.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

BTS, a global consulting firm, developed a highly effective system for launching and securing rookie talent on high-stakes projects. When veteran consultants or project managers assume this role, it is their job to launch the junior talent and be their safety net.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Bill Berman is an executive coach with experience as a psychologist, senior line manager, and organizational consultant. . * * * This post was adapted from Influence and Impact: Discover and Excel at What Your Organization Needs From You The Most by Bill Berman and George Bradt.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2019

Examples may include selling products online, starting a consulting business, or purchasing a semi-absentee franchise opportunity. As a small business consultant and educator , she has guided more than 10,000 individuals through a wide range of business advising and is a past contributing writer for Entrepreneur Magazine.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In Provoke: How Leaders Shape the Future by Overcoming Fatal Human Flaws , renowned strategy consultants and best-selling authors Geoff Tuff and Steven Goldbach deliver an insightful exploration of how people tend to act tentatively in the face of uncertainty and provide the tools we need to do things differently.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

He is co-founder and CEO at Conscious Growth Partners, a consultancy that helps organizations thrive through better leadership, teamwork, and culture. Marianne Pantalon is a licensed clinical psychologist and executive coach. She is co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Conscious Growth Partners, LLC.

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2021

Her focus is consulting in strategic planning, organizational development, talent management, and leadership, including change management and culture evolution.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Lacking knowledge of their own, they seek out and mobilize a network of experts – my research found they consult with five times more experts than experienced people do. Don’t just give them permission to consult, challenge them to talk with at least five experts before taking action. Get them connected.

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

In The Five Graces of Life and Leadership , CEO of the celebrated consulting firm Korn Ferry delivers a meaningful and thought-provoking exploration of leadership, emphasizing the five kinds of grace that leaders absolutely must have to lead their teams in today’s evolving workscape.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It’s not because they hire a new CEO or expensive consultants but rather because these pioneering companies have adopted a new way of strategizing.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Jessica Zucal is a Senior Principal with Evans Consulting. She has also been a keynote speaker for many conferences, inspiring thousands with her credible, authentic, and engaging talks.

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