On Leadership

This is part of an ongoing series on mental health and leadership.

For nearly five years, I served as the primary caregiver for my beloved elderly aunt, who had dementia. I relocated her across the …

This is part of an ongoing series on mental health and leadership.

Mental health struggles are quietly shaping the modern workplace. Behind polished resumes and team meetings lie stories of anxiety, depression, burnout and loss …

This is part of an ongoing series on mental health and leadership.

In today’s high-pressure leadership landscape, the mental health of CEOs, founders and executives is under increasing strain. As the stakes of leadership rise, …

How many of us as leaders can honestly say we have always been OK? I certainly can’t. My own journey, and my observations of others in leadership, have highlighted the profound impact of mental well-being …

Flashback to April 2020. One month into the pandemic, the world stood still. As CEO of BPC, my days were a blur of Zoom calls and frantic news updates. Remote work became the norm, and …

“My inbox is a war zone and my calendar a battlefield,” a CEO recently confessed to me. While we both got a chuckle out of his description, his detailed account of the relentless barrage of …

The urgency of continuous learning hit me hard recently. An entire class of MBA students awaited an assignment I’d uploaded incorrectly on the online education platform that I was still learning to use. Panicked, I …

I once led a nonprofit facing an uncertain future due to likely funding cuts. This ambiguity created a climate of anxiety and speculation for all our stakeholders. Everyone was upset and distracted by what might …

Earlier in my career, before the pandemic, I worked for a national financial services company with geographically dispersed colleagues. I rarely saw many of my co-workers in person, a fact that initially concerned me. However, …

Back in my MBA days, the concept of “disruption” wasn’t exactly a household term. Our professor Clayton Christensen’s groundbreaking work, “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” which addressed disruption, was still a few years away. Technology, while exciting, …