At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders at all levels grappled with never-before-experienced challenges, and decisions generally came down from the top about how organizations would respond. Employees looked to leadership to clarify ambiguity and provide direction. Now, as …
Vantage Founding Partner Dr. Carl Robinson has spent the last 37 years assisting executives in preparing for high-stakes transitions and navigating career-defining moments – and 2020 was, for many, the ultimate challenge. As a clinical psychologist with a deep understanding …
In my new role as Practice Leader for Leadership Development Solutions with Vantage, I am spending a lot of time thinking about how we can help our clients build innovative, meaningful, and experiential leadership development programs. This has been quite …
Brené Brown is not afraid to admit when she’s wrong. On an episode of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Magic Lessons podcast, she shares: “If you asked me five years ago what creativity meant to me, I would have said, ‘Oh, that’s cute, …
The last time we counted down to midnight seems both ten minutes and ten years ago, thanks to the tumultuous time warp of 2020. A strong start (hello, January and February) flipped almost overnight into a bewildering lockdown and, for …
Eboo Patel, founder of Interfaith Youth Core, has been tackling this question for over twenty years. IFYC is one of the classic greatness-started-in-the-garage stories most commonly seen out of Silicon Valley – although in this case, it’s less “building microchips …
*Please note: In this article, the word “women” is used inclusively of all female-identifying leaders. It’s day 6,521 of quarantine. You boot up your laptop, open your inbox, and see approximately 742 new messages — all beginning with, “I …
Martin de Porres was one of the few people in this world who did not have to delegate. As a 15th-century Peruvian saint known to bilocate, he probably found existing in two places at once to be very helpful in …
In the movie Clear and Present Danger, James Earl Jones tells Harrison Ford’s Jack Ryan: “Your word is who you are.” Now, James Earl Jones can say just about anything and make it sound like the ultimate piece of wisdom, …
You don’t expect to hear Donald Rumsfeld quoted at a biology conference on the Galapagos Islands. However, that is exactly what happened in June of 2005, a few months after Rumsfeld’s infamous press briefing in which he spoke about the …
