How the Best Owners Create a Culture of Growth
The founder who becomes the default decision-maker caps the company’s growth and loses their own time. Here is the shift from hero to hero-maker, and the five-stage loop that gets you there.
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What Great People Systems Look Like at 500 to 1,000 Employees
At 150 people you could fix the culture in a hallway. At 600 the hallway is gone, and the systems that felt like freedom have become the bottleneck. Here is what to build before growth outruns you.
Why 89% of Leadership Development Fails (And What to Do Instead)
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.
Why We Use the 5 Voices (In a World Full of Assessments)
Most assessments stop at self-awareness. The 5 Voices moves teams from understanding themselves to understanding each other, which is where real leadership growth begins.
3 Key Takeaways from Gallup’s 2026 Global Workplace Report
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%.
How Much Does People and Culture Development Cost?
The best organizations invest about 2% of their annual budget in their people. Here is what actually drives the price of leadership consulting, coaching, and people systems, and how to size the investment.
Partnership with 3Lamposts
Leaders Rising Network and 3lamposts Project Advisors announce a partnership to build thriving cultures, multiply leaders, and improve project outcomes for shared clients.
Clear Expectations for Leaders
Most leaders can’t articulate their expectations as clearly as they think. A three-part framework to define, communicate, and reinforce expectations your team can actually meet.
Set Leadership Goals That Survive Past February
Most annual goals are lost by February. A year-end rhythm of looking back, looking up, and looking forward, then working in 100 Day Sprints, keeps leaders and teams aligned all year.
How My Coach Saved Me: Working in Crisis
One late-night staffing crisis, three or four options, and no clear path. Here is how one question from my coach changed both the conversation and the outcome.