Healthy Leader
Insights
Insights and strategies to help you lead with
strength, resilience, and well-being.
What Red Team Thinking reveals about bias, truth-telling, and healthy leadership in high-stakes decisions.
You've been in that room.
The one where everyone nods in agreement. The plan sounds solid, ...
What you're serving before you've said a word
The chair scrapes loudly across the floor. Everyone hears it.
The leader leans back, arms crossed, jaw tight. The conversation hasn't gone the way they ...
What it looks like when things are going well on the outside, and quietly misaligned on the inside
The doors to the fitness center opened early that morning. The room was already full, people talking...
What do you do when you feel like someone has betrayed you?
Betrayal doesn’t just test your strategy. It tests who you are, how you think, how you lead, and even how you experience life itself.
Wh...
You don’t always see the moment trust breaks. There’s no memo. No headline. No confrontation.
It starts quietly.
A high performer stops offering ideas. A manager starts following rules instead of le...
It's everywhere. The AI pressure pulsing through every leadership conversation, every board meeting, every strategic planning session. Are you implementing fast enough? Disrupting before being disrupt...
It’s 2 PM on a Tuesday.
Your inbox is exploding, your next meeting starts in five minutes, and someone just walked into your office with “a quick question” that you know isn’t going to be quick.
You...
What do the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, Penn State's cover-up scandal, Quaker's $1.4 billion Snapple loss, the Obamacare rollout debacle, and even Watergate all have in common?
At their core,...
You're at your daughter's softball game, trying to put on a happy face. But the day's frustrations loop endlessly in your thoughts. Your boss didn't acknowledge your hard work. Your spouse forgot to m...
Eight seconds.
That's all it takes for someone to decide whether they can trust you, whether to share openly with you, or whether to hold back.
And those eight seconds aren't determined by your hand...
Ford was losing $12.7 billion a year, over $35 million every single day.
Alan Mulally, just weeks into his new role as CEO, sat at the head of the table. Around him, Ford's top executives presented t...
You’ve had those moments - when your commitment feels absolute. No doubt. No drama. Just follow through.
Sometimes, it’s automatic, a reflection of your values. Other times, it’s a conscious decision...