The Leadership Renewal Framework: how to help people tell the truth about what's hard, reset their perspective, and reignite action, without forcing false positivity.
Research & Insights
Ideas worth putting to work.
I don't write to sound smart. I write to make hard-won research usable, so leaders can do something with it on Monday. Here are the frameworks and articles I return to most.
Featured frameworks
The Three Keys to Lasting Change: Focused Learning, Deliberate Experimentation, and Disciplined Reflection, and why development sticks only when the three work together.
Positive Deviance: finding the people already leading the way you need, and freeing them so their example spreads.
The Competing Values Framework: the widely validated model developed by Kim Cameron and Robert Quinn, used to align culture and leadership behavior with strategy.
Articles
When Emotional Truth and Optimism CoexistLearning to lead through uncertainty and professional pain without forcing people to choose between honesty and hope.
The Five Shifts That Make Change StickWhy technically sound change still fails to move people, and five shifts that reach the deeper sources of motivation.
Leading AI Without Losing the PeopleWhy AI adoption is an identity and renewal challenge, not only a skills gap.
Using the Competing Values Framework to Make Change HappenHow to diagnose what kind of change a situation actually needs, using a shared language leaders can act on.
Creating Leaders Through Authentic Leadership DevelopmentOne HR leader's 18-month journey, and what it reveals about development that actually changes behavior.
Moments of Greatness: Entering the Fundamental State of LeadershipA foundational article on leading from your best self, hosted at Harvard Business Review.
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