How to Stop Normalizing Burnout in the Workplace
When was the last time you heard someone brag about going home on time? Taking a weekend off? Or completely disconnecting from work...
13 February, 2019
3 Ways to Be A Positive Deviant in Your Workplace!
When I was a child, my parents decided it wasn’t OK for people to smoke in our house. They didn’t smoke themselves, and...
09 January, 2019
Shift Yourself First, To Be a Better Leader
In a course that I took once with author, Patti Digh, she made a comment about doing some of her best work when...
11 December, 2018
Who Can I Be That My Employees’ Eyes Shine?
It had been 16 years since my last triathlon, and 4 years since I had even raced a 5 km run, but when...
03 December, 2018
What Do We Want Our Culture to Be?
In “The Deep Change Field Guide: A Personal Course to Discovering the Leader Within” Dr. Robert Quinn points out that launching a company-wide...
03 October, 2018
Design a Better Culture on Purpose: Expert Advice
“Research shows that corporate purpose statements often do more harm than good because they are political exercises rather than words that people passionately...
12 September, 2018
9 Ideas That Will Help You Create a Better Workplace Now
I caught up with my friend Kathryn on a recent trip through Field, in the Canadian Rockies, where she and her husband run...
20 August, 2018
Adopt These Practices to Avoid Slow Death in the Workplace
When I get a consulting request from a small business or team to work with them on their culture, it is often when...
17 July, 2018
You Need to Know How to Transform What You Do Daily to Transform Your Life
This morning my yoga instructor reminded us that how we transform is through daily practices. She was talking about our bodies and minds,...
12 June, 2018
Using the Right Question at the Right Time is a Powerful Way to Shift
A profound way to begin to shift yourself or your culture at work is to find the transformational question that will help you...
29 March, 2018
How to Replace Your Vicious Cycles with Positive Ones
I have spent the last three years collecting stories of positive change. Stories that were shared by innovators and influencers that I brought...
21 February, 2018
How to Inspire Psychological Well-Being at Work
When I was doing research for my Master’s degree back in the 90’s, I remember interviewing a number of directors from a municipal...
04 July, 2017
10 Powerful Questions to Focus Your Bold New Vision
“Every choice you make leads you away from your vision or moves you toward it.” - Patti Digh - What do we want our culture...
17 February, 2017
Expert Advice on Creating a Positive People Culture
“A positive people culture is one where people experience positive emotions, optimism, cohesion, gratitude and humour, and where they have, as a consequence,...
28 June, 2016
5 Ways to Be a More Transformational Leader
“Transformative change happens when someone has a vision and does not let reality and negativity get in the way.” – Dr. Robert Quinn Robert...
04 May, 2016
How to Use a Through-Line Approach for Better Workplace Results
I skied for 20 years before I learned this concept that made all the difference! I took a lesson where the instructor talked...
13 April, 2016
How to Focus on what is Going Right Through Gratitude
"No matter how good you are at negativity, you’re also capable of positivity.” - Barbara Fredrickson Bad things happen. Things hit us the wrong...
06 April, 2016
Mindfulness Walk With a Dog Named Charlie
I’m writing a chapter of my book while out on the Wild West Coast of Vancouver Island in Ucluelet, where when the sun...
27 January, 2016
Let’s Make Work a Healthy Life Experience!
I had an idea awhile back that work could be a healthy life experience, not the exhausting and stressful experience it sometimes is...
23 September, 2015
Transformational Questions Open the Door to a More Positive Workplace
A couple of decades ago I was an employee in an organization going through a massive change process. It appeared (at least to...
26 June, 2015
A Siesta’s Not a Bad Idea!
People used to take vacations. Real ones. I was one of them. I’d go for 2-3 weeks somewhere with no phone or email....
25 June, 2015
Be the Exception to the Rule This Summer: Disconnect!
How many people do you know that completely disconnect from work anymore…ever? I receive countless bounce backs from people when they are out of...
07 May, 2015
Change Is In The Air
I realize it may have been some time since I have been in touch with you. But with some exciting news and updates...
03 May, 2015
Transform Your Workplace to Create a Great Customer Culture
I work with leaders to create more positive workplace cultures that attract and retain the right people – not just the right employees,...
15 April, 2015