Aaron Lee is CEO of Leaders Rising Network and is passionate about unlocking the true potential of leaders and teams. With experience in nonprofits and emergency management, Aaron has guided government, healthcare, nonprofit, and higher education organizations to navigate change and develop leaders who fight for each other. He is the author of The New Generation Leader and host of the podcast of the same name. Aaron holds a degree from the University of Richmond and a Master of Divinity. He lives in Richmond with his wife and two daughters.
Culture rarely collapses. It drifts, one pressured moment at a time, and the leader setting the pace is usually the last to see it. From the Rising launch episode with Jeff Lovell, Becky Rivest, and Mike Pumphrey.
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A high-potential leader attends a training, comes back energized, and then nothing changes. Why most programs stop at the surface, and the four-part rhythm (B-SPOKE) that moved the numbers.
The best companies invest 1 to 2 percent of revenue in their people. Here is what that money buys, and what it quietly costs to keep skipping it.
Companies spend more than $60 billion a year on leadership development, and most of it never reaches the workplace. Here is what separates the programs that pay off from the ones that disappear.
EOS organizes the business. It was never built to develop the people inside it. Here is how to marry your operating system with a culture that activates your leaders.
Most leaders try to fix culture in the big moments. It’s built in the small ones: the micro-moments where behavior meets values under pressure.
Becky Rivest learned leadership in front of 23 kids, then a call center, then corporate training, before finding it at LRN. Her one word for every leader: humility.
Your drive built the company. Left uncalibrated, it can quietly silence the team you need most. Here is how to pair high challenge with high support and get your people talking again.
Only 11% of executives are satisfied with their leadership development. The gap is rarely effort; it is structure. Here are the three shifts that turn scattered programs into a system that grows leaders.
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