Talk is Cheap

Why business leaders need to act now. I met with the CEO of a mental health company last year and remember asking him “what’s the answer” to some of the biggest challenges that we’re facing. Talking is good but if there is no solution for the problems, then what? It’s...

Purpose + Impact

Three principles for leading with purpose and positively impacting the world. I’ve been reading some of the report outs from the JPM Healthcare conference this week. As expected with a financially oriented conference, there was a lot of discussion about growth, profit...

Tell me more

Three words that can transform a conflict into a fresh start. When speaking with someone you disagree with, the most courageous thing you could do is simply say “tell me more”. I’ve been thinking about communication skills lately. No matter how suave of a communicator...

Short: Self-Care

What self-care practices do you use to decompress? It was a ice-breaker question that members of a business group needed to answer as part of their introduction. Almost everyone in the group started with something along the lines of “well I know that I should be...

Workplace Wellness

Insights from the Silicon Valley Leadership Forum Wellness Summit. Leading edge companies are coaxing their employees into the last frontier of the culture change underway in the healthcare industry – wellness. For many the thought of employers accessing their...