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.
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.
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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.
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Gallup’s newest report shows the engagement decline is now a manager decline: manager engagement fell from 31% to 22% since 2022. Here is what that means for your Q2 and how the best organizations hold 79%.
Dr. Tom Nebel built from drive and defiance, hit a wall, and rebuilt his leadership around presence and trust. The founder of Leaders Rising on the tools that gave him language for how others experience him.
A senior leader asked us to run his leadership retreat. We said no. Why one-off events don’t change culture, and the simple Time Audit that turns overwhelmed leaders into multipliers.