[Guest blogger Nina Peterson is the COO and a partner at Wisdom Works. She last blogged about leadership strength through altruism.]
The recent news about WikiLeaks (see NPR for a detailed recap) reminds me of one of my …
[Guest blogger Nina Peterson is the COO and a partner at Wisdom Works. She last blogged about leadership strength through altruism.]
The recent news about WikiLeaks (see NPR for a detailed recap) reminds me of one of my …
[Guest blogger Nikki Carpenter is an ICF-certified professional coach at Wisdom Works. Highly active in the development of healthcare leaders since 1992 Nikki has taught, facilitated, and coached both not-for-profit and for-profit sectors. She earned a master’s in applied communication …
[Guest blogger Jerianne Heimendinger is a health, wellness, and fitness consultant who holds a Ph.D. from the Harvard School of Public Health. While at the National Institutes of Health, she helped develop the 5 A Day program. Renee interviewed …
[Guest blogger Sheldon Romer is a Wisdom Works Performance Coach who last blogged about inspired vulnerability and the sweaty leader.]
On Labor Day my wife and I became two of 3,500 evacuees from the worst fire in Colorado history. …
[Guest blogger Nina Peterson is the COO and a partner at Wisdom Works. In her last blog, she provided four ways to “make the turn” when plans don’t pan out.]
Back in the ’90s, corporations were falling all over …
“Wow! This first step looks like a doozie.” With that thought duly noted by my mind, it seemed a good moment to pause. From four stories up, standing precariously near the edge of the tiny platform, I took a deep …
We’re seated in a circle, amid concrete floors and a large gallery space which tends to echo sound. A diverse collection of local art hangs noiselessly on the walls. Sculptures perch silently on pedestals. The only sound carrying past our …
[Guest blogger Nina Peterson is the COO and a partner at Wisdom Works. She last blogged about how optimism can engineer the future.]
It’s August: that time of year when many organizations are reforecasting. They are rethinking the year’s …
It was our seventh one-to-one coaching conversation. We’d been meeting twice a month for a while now, roughly two hours each time. This executive (an early-40s high achiever I’ll call James) seemed acutely alert to the warning signs about the …
Whenever I was sick as a kid, my step-father would buy me a comic book to cheer me up. Usually, it was an Archie Comic; my favorite character (which I kept as a closely-guarded secret) was the kind-hearted, tomboyish Betty …