Taking time to step back and clarify your leadership vision isn’t a luxury. It’s a strategic advantage. When you know what matters most, you stop reacting and start creating.

My New Mondays at the Office Adventures initiative, and how it has already reminded me to appreciate life's little miracles.

An exploration of how purpose can both get in the way of and support creating what we want.

On grief, and loss, and not holding back your gifts.

Under any other circumstances, it would have been quite a strange scenario.

Think your projects are a mess? You should see my garden.

Slow down, create space, and disconnect to reconnect. The core themes for one of my leadership clients at his personal retreat in Minakami.

In this time of transition in the world, creating pockets of light of our own celebrations is critical.

There is so much for my sons to be with now compared to when I was a child.

It is a wonderful time of year to appreciate fire. Both in the literal sense of having the warmth of a fire to provide light and warmth...

End of year reflections can get a bit exhausting, can’t they? And the refrain of ‘whew, how nice will it be to get that year behind us!’...

As I sit writing this, news of the Omicron (extra points to the virus namers for coming up with such an Avenger-like villain name!)...

I was out for a paddle in my kayak on Yagisawa lake in Gunma recently, wanting to find an inspiring place to do some thinking and...

People who run organizations, particularly founders and entrepreneurs have a lot at stake in how their companies run. Embarrassingly...

In Japan, it’s not uncommon for people to have a favorite kanji, or character. Kanji are an interesting mix of being a word with a...

Most of us have heard about or read the literature regarding the benefit of failing at things and the growth opportunity that can result...

If there is one common theme I am hearing about from new clients or people I am just having coaching conversations with, it is about...

Feeling some discomfort? Hello growth edge!

I’ve been a student of languages for over 35 years now. Well, not counting English, which has been a few years longer... My Mom signed me...

I had a really intriguing coaching conversation recently with a wonderful young man - let’s call him Luke. Luke’s core topic that he...