Impact Leadership Blog

Every company I've ever walked into has a culture. There’s always some kind of statement about it.  Sometimes it’s a laminated poster in the break room. Maybe it’s embedded in the onboarding deck. Pai...

The most generous thing a leader can do is stop having all the answers.

The first time he stopped answering his team’s questions, three people thought he’d lost his mind.

He had built his whole c...

When my father died suddenly, I inherited the CEO seat of our family business overnight.

No vision. No plan. No runway.

I was forty years old, and I genuinely believed that leadership was a ti...

Most leaders assume growth problems show up as market issues, strategy issues, or capital issues.

In my experience, growth usually stalls for a quieter reason:

Leadership capacity doesn’t scale at t...

In today's rapidly evolving business environment, the success of an organization hinges on the strength of its leadership.  That’s not groundbreaking news for anyone I’m sure!

However, as the peop...

Being a leader with heart and distinguishing that from the 20^th Century role of a manager is a topic that we tackled on a recent Emerging Leader Inner Circle call. 

It’s a subject that is getting mor...

For many years, I invested my professional life in helping companies consider and implement strategies that would improve the health of their people and also impact their bottom line through lowering ...

As a business owner, you've spent decades building your company from the ground up. Your hard work, values, and vision have created not just a business, but a legacy. Now, as you look to the future, y...

Recently, I had the opportunity to attend a performance by a winner of American Idol because my son had a chance to sit in with his opening act. 

The singer, Kris Allen, got to debut some new song...

When I originally floated the idea of taking a month off, I kind of did it tongue in cheek.

The problem is that I said it out loud to my executive coach.

As soon as the words left my mouth, I knew a...