What’s the Worst That Could Happen
A few years ago, as I was preparing my “induction speech” as the incoming President of EO St Louis, waves of nervousness kept preventing me…
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Leadership Scholarship
I’ve been talking with some peeps about a leadership scholarship I am starting at my high school. They asked me to pass it on to…
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The Best Question to Unlock Creativity
Most creative solutions come from looking at the same problem in a new way; reframing by asking “What are we really trying to accomplish here?”…
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Beware of Fake Finish Lines
The finish line was in sight…so I went into a full blown, all out sprint. I wanted to finish my first half-marathon, my first race,…
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Why My Vision Didn’t Connect With My Team
Have you ever been in a conversation and someone questions your idea or strategy making you get just a little frustrated and annoyed? Yeah, me…
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Are You a Mental Adrenaline Junky Too?
There is a lot of research around being in flow state or being in the zone, which happens when tackling difficult challenges that push to…
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Pain is the Process
I know with 100% certainty if not for Entrepreneurs’ Organization and its Accelerator program, I would not be in business today. During our early days…
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What’s Your Default Leadership Stress Mode?
We just completed a 3.5 month sprint of acquiring a 25,000 square foot historic school building that will be the new home of The Conflux…
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Decade(s) in Review
The end of every year is always one of reflection for me, and this being the end of a decade, even more so. There’s a…
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What Exactly is Culture?
Culture. You can’t go anywhere or read anything without someone telling you about the importance of culture. But when you ask those dozen people what…