In the last post, I shared how a simple assignment—to rewrite our culture code—uncovered something much deeper. The issue wasn’t integrity. It wasn’t effort. It was trust. More specifically, it was the absence of shared expectations that allow trust to function. By the time my project partner and I finished reviewing the survey results, it…
In my previous post, I shared the moment I realized something wasn’t right in our organization. Not because of a single dramatic failure, but because of a quiet, persistent dissonance between who we believed ourselves to be and what I was actually experiencing. For a long time, I assumed that dissonance was mine alone to…
I worked in my previous company for over 13 years, most of which were spent in leadership roles. It was a wonderful company—a true home for me for a long time. My colleagues and I did a lot of life together: marriages, divorces, children being born. It was a small, close-knit company, and I loved…
What do your values actually mean to you? Do you know what they are—beyond the words you’d like to believe describe you? Have you ever taken the time to define them with intention, or do they mostly exist as vague ideals you assume you’re living by? For a long time, mine were the latter. How…