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Have social media and popular culture made us so cynical that we enjoy the “cringe” and the judgment when people fall on their face in the workplace?

Women have a more narrow path than men for acceptable behavior to advance in private and public organizations. For Black women, it's skinny. Our newest Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson sailed carefully through this corporate Bosphorous during her career and...

The idea is the head off burnout and simply reduce over-work.Probably a wise move, when retaining talent is getting harder. Not to mention being at a time when so many are working from home, blurring the boundaries of work and life.

Threat brain? Yes, let’s avoid it. Threat brain is a necessary survival function that can kick in needlessly when modern anxiety gets too great. Reading the Fast Company article "Feeling constantly stressed? Blame your ‘threat brain’" gives a lesson for your workplace...

As the Great Resignation continues, how are leaders going to attract and retain talent? The importance of emotionally intelligent and compassionate leadership right now can’t be understated. Wall Street Journal reporter Kathryn Dill, who has been covering the effects...

They’re looking for life on Mars but can’t find Black tech workers on Earth
A common theme is how Big Tech’s leverage—its money, its control of information, its visibility—could be transformative. Yet it’s not.

Is it “only burnout”? This usually suggests you just need to pace yourself, pet your dog, have sit-down dinners with your family and walk more. People just need to take better care of themselves, right? No, the employers need to remove the stressful demands. It’s a...

Kindership™ is our a subset of leadership that functions by moving interpersonal connection to the forefront of work. It makes kindness systemic for the following benefits…

What if you could download kindness like an app? You can. Through a human system of "installing" kindness in individual actions and organizational policies, you can see it propagate throughout your company and become part of your HR brand. More than that, we believe...

By Lily Kelly-Radford Many minorities in the workplace may be less likely to step forward and speak up for leadership opportunities, because they don’t see enough leaders who look like them. So organizations can miss out on promising talent that's already in the...

By Lily Kelly-Radford Yes, kindness can improve how a business works and how you experience the workplace. Like a digital app, kindness can be installed in your organization so it takes hold and spreads, person to person. It can start anywhere in your company when...

By Lily Kelly-Radford It’s only October, but 2021 can’t come soon enough. Yet even in this most unkind time–toxic politics, social injustice, an insidious pandemic—we can learn much about becoming more kindly leaders. As the world started hunkering at home last...

By Lily Kelly-Radford Sometimes it seems we’re stuck in the 19th century with its Great Man Theory of leadership. When you’re sitting through a presentation about leadership and the PowerPoint slides display quotes and case studies of white American men, exclusively,...

By Lily Kelly-Radford Leaders have to go where no one has gone before. That's what Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute president Shirley Ann Jackson did when she enrolled at MIT. Dr. Jackson told MIT's Technology Review that she stayed on after earning her undergraduate...

By Lily Kelly-Radford The remote workplace – at first, we had to do it. Entire staffs went home and set up shop on their kitchen tables or in spare bedroom offices. We improvised quickly. Now we know remote work is going to continue. Even as the pandemic resolves, we...

By Lily Kelly-Radford Work has never been more “self-serve” than it has since the pandemic lockdowns started in March. It’s an entirely new environment for most people. This calls on workers to demonstrate responsibility in fulfilling their duties remotely, which...

It took a funeral to be reminded that humility is a cornerstone of effective leadership. At the service for Congressman John Lewis from the historic pulpit of Ebenezer Baptist Church we heard three distinctly different leaders empathize with a divided nation, weary...

With traffic and with travel, I predict that coaching will certainly increase because the fees are totally directed to coaching as opposed to travel and other additional logistics to support the task. Lily Kelly-Radford Drs. Lily Kelly-Radford and Randall P. White...

Speaking up against discrimination is your responsibility. Here's a primer. Calling out racism in the workplace is important to create an inclusive environment for all employees, Leap Leadership principal Lily Kelly-Radford. "When people feel safe in their jobs, they...

We stand with Black Lives Matter and all those working positively for reform, justice and equality. The current state of our country must be addressed at every level and we invite our colleagues, clients and students to seek solutions and unity in everything you do.We...

As a firm whose mission is to help business facilitate meritocracy without regard for race, ethnicity, age, faith, sex or sexual orientation we, Leap Leadership, heartily endorse this decision. "It is impossible to discriminate against a person for being homosexual or...