by LEAP Leadership | Mar 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
By Lily Kelly-Radford Where has grace gone? 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? I hope not. It’s unfair and hurtful. Not to mention that it undermines...
by LEAP Leadership | Apr 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by LEAP Leadership | Jan 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
" height="450" src="https://video-api.wsj.com/api-video/player/v3/iframe.html?guid=0BD58087-84C3-4B14-827B-79A20DA4C73A" The Wall Street Journal article, “You Can Redraw Work Boundaries This Year—and Make Them Stick” includes this video discussing how some...
by LEAP Leadership | Dec 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
by LEAP Leadership | Nov 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
by LEAP Leadership | Jul 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
They’re looking for life on Mars but can’t find Black tech workers on Earth… Fast Company has partnered with Black startup publication The Plug for a series called “Black in Tech.” The series compiles interviews of Black professionals in the field on...
Straight Talk: Replacing cringe with graceHave 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? […]
Straight Talk: The Capacity PersonThink of being a capacity person like a “superpower for good” and assess every context for how much is needed so it’s never for “not-so-good.” […]
“Persevere” – Celebrating the first African American woman on the Supreme Court
Right To Disconnect? Should US companies adopt the European trend?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. […]
Head off the panic with a kinder workplace