What a jigsaw puzzle can teach us about leadership qualities and how to apply them to our teams.

Taking time to surrender allows us to connect to our individual essence.

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.

If your life is made up of roughly 4,000 weeks, you don't have time, but rather, your life is this time. If your life is time, then you are time.

If you’re in a summer motivational lull, here are some things my sabbatical taught me!

Projecting is a phenomenon where we take our own thoughts, and, just like a projector machine, superimpose them onto another surface. With psychological projection, that surface is primarily another human or institution.

The Cycle of Self Trust is an important driver of whether your relationship with yourself is becoming stronger, staying the same, or diminishing.

Why context is king, part two.

Small town USA is defined by their humanity and other lessons I learned growing up in rural New York.

Up in Northern New York State, my dad is just finishing up another round of artisanal sugaring (producing maple syrup from the sap that runs in the spring). It's a hobby that bridges the depth of winter and sailing season — a hobby from which my brothers and sister and I reap serious maple syrup dividends.

Out of all my siblings, I live the closest to our father, so I see him the most frequently. The way I contribute, albeit meagerly, to his sugaring efforts is to save glass jars for him. Old syrup mason jars, peanut butter and pickle jars, and those jumbo jars the kalamata olives from Costco come in.

I save the jars, but I draw the line at removing the labels.