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Assembled & edited by Jane Allen and Nick Owen Snapshots of a transformational leadership conference with inputs from Bill Torbert & Frederic Laloux Amara is a collaboration of likeminded leadership…

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Leadership Coaching Tips

11/30 – Stop being authentic. Get awkward. Be creative.

Rob McNamara Authenticity is often highly valued by our clients and ourselves as coaches. We like feeling authentic. We enjoy discovering our own integrity. And we soak up the power…

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When Russ Volkmann suggested that Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk, the co-founder/president of The Memnosyne Institute, be interviewed for ILR, it seemed easy enough. But then, that was before catching her on…

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Jeffrey Pfeffer (2015). Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time. New York: Harper Business. In the year 2000, Chris Argyris introduced the new century with his…

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Carol Sanford served as speaker for Saybrook’s Organizational Systems 2015 graduating class.  She inspired the curiosity of our graduates and students as she spoke about her transdisciplinary approach to working…

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Lisa Norton   “Jazz is not a what, it is a how.”  Bill Evans  “One Halloween, our group is excited to do a scary Halloween show. To start our play we…

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Robin Lincoln Wood Overview of the Purpose of this Series of Articles – with excerpts from “A Leader’s Guide to ThriveAbility” This series of articles is intended to illuminate how…

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Robin has brilliantly woven his ThriveAbility model into a field manual for executives, policy makers and change agents in service of creating a better world for future generations. Earth’s 7.3…

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Notes from the Field

10/9 – Review of The Third Act Workshop

Edward Kelley INTRODUCTION  Over the past 2-3 years we have run a number of retreats on The Third Act in life. In April of this year we also ran a…

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Leadership Quote

10/9 – Sheryl Sandberg

“In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.” Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

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