Dear Reader, Innovation has become one of the biggest buzzwords in leadership. Organizations talk about it. Strategic plans prioritize it. Leaders ask their teams to be more innovative. But after working with organizations across the U.S. and Canada, I've realized we're often focused on the wrong goal. Instead of trying to create innovation, we should be creating innovators. Some of the most impactful ideas don't come from chasing the next big breakthrough. They come from people who are...

Dear Reader, I couldn't see the audience because of the stage lights. Every once in a while, my lip would stick to my teeth because I was getting the dry mouth of nervousness. It's my turn with the mic at the Moth GrandSLAM with 9 other AZ winners from the past year. 5 years ago, if you would have told me that I would be standing on a stage in a storytelling competition sharing a word-for-word memorized story about dancing with my daughter before she launched to Paris, I would have had so...

Dear Reader, After 25 years together, we went to happy hour and had nothing to talk about. It seemed that we had discussed everything there was to discuss, planned everything that needed planning, and had become quite unpracticed at introducing new and interesting topics to each other. In the heart of Mexico City, we had just ordered some expensive purple lemonade fancy drinks, and had 59 more minutes to fill. “We know all the big things in each other’s lives, but probably not the details....