Practical Resources for Everyday Leadership.
Sometimes one question, a simple framework, or a single practical tool is all it takes to see a situation differently. These resources are here whenever you're ready to return to them.
A growing library, thoughtfully curated.
Recognize the Moment
A brief, practical resource built around four moves: Pause, Notice, Choose, Move. Designed to help leaders slow down and notice what is actually happening — intentionally flexible and not meant to be completed like a worksheet.
Conversations Worth Having
A collection of brief questions organized around understanding, support, clarity, noticing what is working, and going deeper. The goal is to help you find one useful question — not work through a list.
When Delegation Isn't Working
A simple tool for examining delegation through six conditions: Know, Believe, Ability, Authority, Support, and Accountability. Helps leaders and teams identify which condition may be missing rather than assuming the person or the work has failed.
Leadership ideas don't only come from leadership books.
This is a growing collection of books, podcasts, and voices that have shaped how I think about leadership, trust, workplace culture, service, and how we show up for one another. Not everything here is about leadership. Everything here has something to teach us about how we lead.
Recognize the Moment
This book changed the way I think about leadership. Its Five Actions of serving leadership offer a practical reminder that leadership is not about being at the top — it is about creating the conditions for other people to succeed.
Dare to Lead
Courage, vulnerability, trust, and the willingness to have difficult conversations are not soft leadership skills. They are leadership skills. This book helped reinforce for me that how we show up, especially when things are hard, matters.
Managers Who Build Trust
Trust isn't built through a grand gesture. It is built, or lost, in the everyday moments people experience with us. Justin brings trust into the practical work of managing people and reminds us just how much those ordinary moments matter.
Dare to Serve
Serving leadership is sometimes mistaken for simply being nice. Cheryl Bachelder makes a compelling case for something much stronger: serving people well while also expecting and achieving meaningful results.
Unleashed
One of the ideas I keep coming back to is that leadership is not primarily about what happens when you are in the room. It is about what you make possible in other people, including when you aren't there.
The Fearless Organization
This book changed the way I think about leadership. Its Five Actions of serving leadership offer a practical reminder that leadership is not about being at the top — it is about creating the conditions for other people to succeed.
Wolfpack
Leadership doesn't require a title or permission. Wolfpack challenges some of the rules we have inherited about success, belonging, ambition, and who gets to lead. It is short, powerful, and worth returning to.
The Advantage
This book changed the way I think about leadership. Its Five Actions of serving leadership offer a practical reminder that leadership is not about being at the top — it is about creating the conditions for other people to succeed.
Excellence Wins
This book changed the way I think about leadership. Its Five Actions of serving leadership offer a practical reminder that leadership is not about being at the top — it is about creating the conditions for other people to succeed.
Lead Better
Short, practical, and grounded in observable leadership behavior. I appreciate leadership ideas that can actually be noticed and practiced in everyday moments, and Lead Better consistently gives me those.
Fixable
Someone brings a real workplace problem. Frances and Anne help uncover what may actually be underneath it and find a way forward. I especially appreciate their ability to make complicated organizational problems feel more solvable.
WorkLife
Work is full of assumptions about motivation, culture, teams, productivity, and people. Adam Grant has a way of questioning those assumptions and bringing research into the conversation without making it feel like a research paper.
How to Be a Better Human
It isn't strictly a leadership podcast, and that's part of why it belongs here. Leadership is ultimately about human beings. Conversations about relationships, change, purpose, behavior, and how we treat one another often have a lot to teach us about how we lead.
Let's Lead Together
Marli brings energy and humanity to conversations about leadership, engagement, burnout, and creating experiences where people can thrive. Her work is also a reminder that how we gather and engage people matters.
"The real learning often begins after the event ends."