Conversations Worth Having Blog

 The most effective organizational leaders are prioritizing their personal growth, which requires honest internal work. This process is crucial for reconnecting with innate virtues that, although ofte...

As a career educator for almost three decades, August has always been a bittersweet time for me. It’s the beginning of the summer to school transition. The days are often more beautiful than ever, esp...

Authoritarian leadership can be found anywhere; and it is often found in industries such as construction, manufacturing, nuclear power, and the military. The benefit of this leadership style is the ab...

 ‘brat’ memes have recently gone viral. The term comes from Charli XCX’s album, brat. Inspired by the album, Gen Z and millennials coined the term brat summer, which is all about accepting your imperf...

I am currently listening to Mindfulness and the Brain: A Professional Training in the Science and Practice of Meditative Awareness. One of the authors shared a story about a man who’d been involved in...

Part of what makes change management hard is that we like stability, comfort, certainty, and clarity. As members of living systems, however, changes in external conditions often means we have to adapt...

Words are powerful, even a simple word like, “Yet.”  Notice the effect these two short phrases have on your body and emotions:

• “I can’t do that.”  
• “I can’t do that yet.”

The first suggests a f...

“Be who I am.”
~ Jeanie Cockell

In our Conversations Worth Having Learning Lab, Jeanie Cockell, Joan McArthur-Blair, Megan Robaina, and Melissa Robaina, joined by Jackie Stavros, explored the importan...

In celebration of National Poetry at Work Day, we're sharing a delicious poem that highlights a valuable Conversations Worth Having principle. We hope you'll enjoy the poem as much as we did! Please r...

Ahh, bliss. December is here, conjuring up pleasant memories: the gentle falling of snow (admittedly, not here in Northern California yet), the cheerful greetings of friends and family, and the entici...