Co-creating Positive Change: Be a Coach-like Partner, Not Just “The Boss.”
Use Coaching Skills to Empower and Bring Out the Best in Others “Great leaders ask questions rather than provide answers. They don’t tell people, they…
Leading Your Veterinary Practice
Making the Switch from Frustrated Parent to Collaborative Community Builder Are you tired of feeling like a counselor, mediating disputes about workplace music volume and…
Using Credit to Build Financial Stability
As I continue to have conversations with young and seasoned veterinarians, I realize that although most veterinarians know their credit score many have no idea…
Shift Happens! Exploring Next-Stage Veterinary Practice Leadership
Identify and Adopt the New Skills Needed to be an Effective 21st Century Leader “The chess master is obsolete, but the gardener is in great…
IMPROV(e) Your Leadership…and Life!
Apply the Principles of Improv to Thrive as You Lead “The new, entrepreneurial experience of work is very different from the mass-industrial experience. It is…
Accept Judgment, Practice Learning
As we continue to face challenges and uncertainty entering this new year, here’s a framework that can remind us to be intentional about the mindset…
2021 ONE WORD Challenge
As we say goodbye to 2020 and begin a new year, I invite you, my friends and colleagues, to accept my ONE WORD Challenge! That…
Practice Staying Mindful and Centered
Exceptionally trying times call for all of us to respond from a place of love, curiosity, and possibility instead of fear, worry, and resignation. Yes,…
Are You a Human Being or a Human Doing?
Seek Balance and Make Personal and Practice Wellbeing a Top Priority “Leading is about being a champion of human well-being and creating environments where people…
Try a Little Kindness
“Wholeness does not mean perfection, it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Being human means being broken and yet whole.” – Parker…