There’s a Nap for That: Leading From First Gear
Capable leaders keep hunting for more minutes in the day. Tom Nebel makes the case for First Gear: the rest that buys back not just hours, but years.
How to Prove ROI on Leadership Development: A CFO’s Guide to Pricing the Cost of Stuck
Your CFO will not fund leadership development on faith. Show the cost of doing nothing, priced against your own meetings, deferred decisions, and redirected senior hours, and the case makes itself.
What a Real Leadership Development System Looks Like
Most leadership training is run like a fire drill: one room, one day, gone by Friday. A real system has four phases, and skipping any one of them is why nothing changes.
Training in 2026: Everyone Wants Growth, No One Has Time
Training Magazine says 2026 is leadership development’s moment. Almost nobody is starting. Why it’s a system problem, not a willpower problem, and the one honest conversation that gets you unstuck.
How to Stop Being a Bottleneck: The 4Ds Framework for Leaders Who Want to Scale
Capable, committed leaders become the bottleneck without ever choosing to. The 4Ds (Drop, Delegate, Develop, Do) is the map back to the work that is genuinely yours.
Why Your New Technology Is Making the Problem Worse
Technology amplifies whatever is already running underneath it. Before your next implementation, the real question is the organizational operating system you are installing it on.
Why Culture Drifts (And What Leaders Can’t See When It Does)
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.
Unlocking Influence: The Leadership Skill Most Leaders Are Missing
A VP with the vision, the credentials, and the results still felt like he was leading from an island. What he was missing was influence, and influence is built on four ingredients of trust.
Okay, but What Does This Actually Look Like?
Your first 100 days and a long-term plan to transform culture. The Next Horizon Pathway, in plain terms: where you are going, how you get there, and who goes with you.
Reclaiming Hope in Higher Ed Leadership
Inside a transformational retreat for Virginia’s private college presidents — and the tool helping leaders measure what really matters When 20 private college presidents from across Virginia gathered this fall, they came for more than a dashboard review and budget briefing. They came to reconnect: with one another, with their personal mission, and with something