Will You Take The Leading With Values Challenge?

The Great Recession of 2007-2009 stress-tested the financial resilience of our business institutions and society in general. In the darkest days, many of us saw our investments shrink by more than 40% and businesses question whether they would survive. In my consulting practice, I saw leaders who were scared and not sure what new disaster would arrive at our doorstep the following day. The following day has now arrived. Are we better prepared?

Post Recession Leadership

Coming out of the recession, there was a cry for contingency planning to better prepare us for another unexpected shock. Now we face a double barrel challenge - keeping ourselves and our companies alive and again confronting the realities of rampant racial and social injustice across our country. Yet, I doubt many of us had that in our contingency plans! What could have helped us better include the concerns we are dealing with now? Perhaps more explicit, broader consideration beyond our perceived short-term needs by bringing in strategies of feeling with longer-term systemic problems.

Time For Change

In addition to dealing with basic survival needs, my clients find themselves needing to address the issues that support their mission and vision of the future as these relate to those who have been oppressed in societies. In August 2019, the