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Elevate Your Leadership: Why Developing Yourself Strengthens Your Organization

Leadership development isn’t about fixing weaknesses — it’s about expanding awareness and strengthening organizational success. I explore why the best leaders stay coachable, how personal growth improves company culture, and why investing in leadership development pays off across the organization.

Generative Thinking is the Key to Strategic Governance for Boards

Generative Thinking: The Key to Strategic Governance for Boards

Strategic governance often gets sidelined by fiduciary oversight—but generative thinking can help boards refocus. This article explores how CEOs and directors can build shared governance, challenge assumptions, and generate better ideas to strengthen strategic leadership and board alignment.

Understanding the neuroscience behind first impressions can transform the way executives approach initial client meetings

Building Trust in Initial Client Meetings

Executive coach and author Peter J. Dean, Ph.D., explains how neuroscience can improve first client meetings by demonstrating how the brain quickly assesses trust. Small cues—like tone and body language—can trigger either safety or threat responses. Executives who create psychological safety from the outset are more likely to build trust and win business.