Leadership Deep Dive

In this episode, Margaret and David  explore what it means to smile at fear — and how this practice can help us become braver, more self-aware leaders. Drawing on David’s book, The Spiritual Path of Leadership: Awakening Your Inner Sage, they explore how fear shapes our behavior, why we sometimes withhold what needs to be […]

David sits down with organizational consultant Daniel Roth and discusses hisE3 Effect framework (Enable, Empower, Endeavor), which asks leaders three questions: Have you enabled your people with what they need? Have you empowered them to act? Have you built the follow-through that keeps performance improving? Roth, founder of the Pangea Effect and author of The E3 Effect, argues […]

Hard to believe, but most nonprofit boards get fundraising all wrong.  Nonprofit board members think their job is to attend meetings and second motions. It’s not. A board member’s real job is to imagine what the organization could do with unlimited resources, then find the people willing to fund that vision. Stone Payton, a board […]

Margaret and David discuss how blurry vision can teach you about your Zone of Genius. Margaret shared how she’d been living with completely incorrect eyeglass prescriptions for years.  A wake-up call that mirrors how leaders often keep their true potential “blurry” out of fear or habit. We explore the difference between your zone of excellence […]

We spend a lot of time helping leaders stay in the moments that are hard: difficult conversations, conflict, disappointment, and the inevitable gut punches of leadership. But what about the other end of the spectrum? Joy as a leadership skill may sound unexpected — and even a little less urgent—but learning how to receive, savor, […]