Leadership | Leading Elephants

“I’m for You” … even when I’m editing your work

Feedback can be a key building block to thriving relationships and cultures.

Rekindling Engagement and Ownership with “I’m For You”

Six Suggestions to Shift Your Everyday Management Dynamic Do you ever feel like it takes a big lift to move the work forward when you are...

A WINDOW INTO Leading Elephants: Growing as a Multiracial Team

Our team collaborated in a big and unconventional way to bring you our story in this month’s blog. You will read how we’ve grown and...

Stop Heroing Through Mediocre Meetings

Five Ways to Invite Your Team into Supporting Great Dialogue If there is one thing that we see teams stymied by, boring and ineffective...

You Have More Agency than You Realize

Challenging your assumptions and claiming radical ownership of your agency can bring peace and possibility “What is the conversation you...

STEPPING INTO THE LIGHT OF LIBERATED LEADERSHIP

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world ... I am here to live out loud.” - Emile Zola At a party honoring my friend Aliyah’s*...

Compassionate Authenticity - The Heart of Sustaining Solutions

Step outside of your worn patterns and embrace the magic of being real together It’s a dance. Choreographed, practiced, worn into the...

An Open Letter to Organization Leaders When Diversity Was Not Enough

If Belonging isn’t Part of the Picture, Your Efforts to Recruit and Retain Won’t Play Out At Leading Elephants, we have been having...

leaders and Teams are feeling frayed

Three Simple Lifts To Bring Back "that Loving Feeling" The old Righteous Brothers tune “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” played in my...

A Crushing Recipe for White Supremacy Culture in Change

The practices for stepping into "something different" — where everyone can thrive.

Shedding our White Leadership Paradigms

The Quest to Lead With Cultural Competency

The Neutral Zone

As discussed before, there is often a tough moment of reckoning when leaders realize a change hasn’t turned out as smooth as they...

The 3 Archetypes of Change Leaders - What Are They Missing?

"Why didn't this work out how we imagined?” It’s a question we hear a lot. We think of this as the Pinterest fail of leadership: we...