There are people in our lives who never make it to our LinkedIn recommendations. They don’t appear in our award speeches. We don’t tag them in our milestone posts. And yet, if we’re honest with ourselves, they are the reason we became who we are. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. We live…

The second half of the year is here. And I know what many of us are doing right now. We’re quietly reviewing. Going back to that list we made in January. The goals. The intentions. The version of ourselves we were so sure we’d be by now. Some of it happened. Some of it didn’t….

The Quiet Strength of Fathers  A few days back, I was going through some old family photos, and I came across one of my father from when I was maybe Thirteen or Fourteen. Just a simple photo, him standing outside our old house, in the same shirt he wore to work almost every day. Nothing…

Don’t Lose Yourself on the Way Up A few years ago, I ran into a senior leader I used to report to early in my career. He had moved on to a much bigger role, a much bigger title, a corner office, the works. By every definition we use at work, he had “made it.”…