Let’s talk about being tired.   Not the I stayed up too late watching ridiculously funny puppy reels. I mean the kind of tired that lives somewhere between your shoulder blades and your soul.   The kind where you’re running on caffeine, adrenaline, muscle memory, and the faint hope that tomorrow’s calendar will magically clear itself.   Leadership tired hits different. Because when you’re tired, you don’t get to just… stop. You still have humans. You still have decisions. You

When I landed in Ireland, there was no one waiting at baggage claim, no itinerary taped to my suitcase, no voice asking, “What’s next?”  There was just me with my carry-on suitcase, not one other person I knew in the country, a cell phone that only worked if I was on Wi-Fi, and the quiet thrill of realizing that every decision from here on out was mine.   Solo travel has a way of stripping things down to the truth. There’s no one to consult, no one to blame, no one to keep yo

Results are often celebrated for their clarity. They line up neat, measurable targets: increase participation, secure funding, or launch a new program. These are  results  - the tangible, trackable markers of progress.   But here’s a leadership tip:  results are only half the story.   When we stop at results, we miss the bigger picture - the  outcomes . Outcomes describe the change, the impact, the ripple effect of those results. They answer the critical question:  So what? P

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