Creative problem solvers can be a leader’s most important asset.

Downshifting is switching to a lower gear while you drive. Your automatic car does it for you, but if you drive a manual, you can downshift to slow down but also do in preparation to accelerate quickly.

There’s something magical about college football. I’m from the south, so obviously I’ve been raised to believe that college football is an important part of life, but …

What do Victory ice cream, hash browns from McDonald’s, and junk food on a road trip have in common? Tradition. 

It’s often the smallest things that make the biggest impact! As a leader, if you can embrace letting go of the little tasks, you can empower your team to do the enormous ones.

Effective time management is a critical component to Making Flex Work.

What does an independent league baseball game have to do with leadership?

Do you feel like you are being swept up in a tornado, spinning around out of control, hoping to be dropped on the ground and yet fearful of where you will land?

Every successful company has a board of directors sets the strategic direction, and I believe that a personal board of directors is one of the most important things you can have in your career.

Sometimes the path is clear, sometimes there are no exit ramps, only a tunnel to be navigated along a straight track, but more often, decision making means having to determine which is the best path even when you don’t have all the information you want.

…Just ask my daughter, who used it as one of her three reasons for why she looks up to her mother in a 4th grade writing assignment.

If you haven’t found those people in your life who will cheer for you no matter what, I encourage you to find them.

Let's talk about meeting amnesia! I define “meeting amnesia” as the inability to recall details of a meeting in which you were in attendance.

How does your range of emotions compare with those who work around you? Personally, my highs are high and my lows are low.

As I have shared “Making Flex Work” over the last year, I’ve had the opportunity to have conversations about work effectiveness with people of all backgrounds and career stages, so when I got this text, it wasn’t entirely out of the ordinary, but it still caught me off guard.

What does it take for you to be able to perform at your best? Are you someone who needs everything to be just right, or are you someone you can play with the cards you were dealt?

Trying to figure out how to do all the “right” things to be successful in your career can be exhausting.

This is something we are taught to ask from a very young age. In order to be successful at school, understanding what the teacher wants it’s critically important. But where do we teach people the most of our professional decisions have no right answer.

Most people I talk to tell me that they dread feedback at work, especially when that feedback comes in the form of their annual review. 

These are buzz words in the corporate world, but as a leader you’re obligated to think creatively in order to get the team where are you need them to be and ultimately get the work done.