The current times beckons a return back home to the real you, by embracing the power within. Every time we use our power and choice to create fairness and justice, we get closer to achieving a more socially just world.

In the dynamic landscape of 2024, managers are confronted with unprecedented challenges that necessitate a unique set of leadership skills. As we grapple with polarization and an anti-DEI climate, here are four vital skills that underlie the significance of cultivating specific qualities to navigate the complexities of today's workplace.

Once again, people became amped with outrage at the visual of another Black body murdered yet failed to continue to deliver on individual and systemic change that actually improved the lives of Black people.

We’ve all been there before, you’ve witnessed an unjust act like racism and you want to interject with that powerful statement to change the status quo yet you find yourself silent, nodding, or laughing in complicity with the very action that you wanted to disrupt.

It’s time for a shift in the way we talk about racial bias. I want to challenge us to be more courageous and maximize the moment. We need to move beyond using unconscious bias as a default for classifying incidents of racial bias. I know this will ruffle some feathers. Racial healing requires raising our consciousness past the age-old intent v. impact debate generated with the unconscious bias narrative.

Trust and love thinking expands our capacity to exercise conscious leadership. The challenges in today’s world call forth a new way of exercising leadership that prepare us to act courageously in the face of our deepest fears and competing loyalties.

Fear and doubt form the foundation for self-sabotage. If you are stuck in a 2019 goal, there is a deeper reason. The culprit, Immunity-to-Change, is the unconscious process of building internal and external resistance to the change that we seek.

Leadership mobilizes people with diverse perspectives to ally with each other for the greater good. One cannot accomplish leadership tasks with fear-based thinking. Fear maintains the status quo and impairs our ability to make sound decisions, both of which diminish our power. A mindset led by fear, cowers in the face of conflict and behaves impulsively.

Power comes from within and waits on us to unleash it. We exercise inner power through self-awareness, intentionality, and a pure desire to uplift others and self. Tapping into our inner power requires making purposeful choices to direct our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors to access higher vibrations of energy over lower ones.

Everyday we get to choose whether we use our power to do good or to cause pain. It’s up to you. The cumulative impact of personal choices made by every global citizen shapes our world.

Are you listening to me? Is the age-old question of any heated discussion at work or home. The root of that question is “did you understand what I need based on what I said?” Experts agree that listening is essential to the leadership process yet staff rarely receive training on this important skill. Seeing the detrimental impact on teams that fail to listen to each other, inspired me to write a blog on the power of listening to the song beneath our words. Learning this skill can revolutionize your personal and professional communication.