Leaders, if you're planning to do a values exercise with your team, you'll get the most accurate answer to the question "what are our values?" not by making a lofty list of what the team might value in a utopian workplace, but by looking at actual recent team behavior.

How to respond to an employee who wants a promotion involves integrative thinking, understanding their real need, and acknowledging their strengths.

Why do leaders and rising leaders, especially women leaders, need to stop apologizing? It waters down the real message. You give away your power. It's often not circumstances in which you're actually sorry or would even do something differently next time. It's often just a demure habit.

As a leader, you can use coaching skills to more effectively engage those around you. One of the primary ways that a coach supports someone is through change. I'm going to share a change framework with you called ACT.

Inclusion is the sincere and explicit invitation to join.

You can see, in the definition alone, the proactive nature of valuing inclusion. I picture extending a hand, metaphorically speaking.

At the heart of equity lies fairness. Having equity among a group means everyone in that group has what they need to have a fair chance at the same opportunities.

Diversity refers to the range of human differences - in any and all human differences.

Is DEI progressive wokeism or is it good business sense?

Working harder and working smarter to achieve business goals will not address team dynamics. The best thing you can do is bring it to the team as a whole.

As a leader it’s your job to help your team engage in healthy conflict around ideas.