by Jessica | Oct 18, 2017 | Conscious Professional Blog
How we choose to see our current and past challenges drives the impact they have on our evolving capability and identity. As we develop ourselves over time to build the skills we need to support the causes we care about, it changes our beliefs about who we are and...
by Jessica | Jul 13, 2017 | Conscious Professional Blog
In the modern workplace, co-workers arrive at your organization from all types of prior workplaces, some of which could be more analogous to a den of wolves than a conscious company. Recent high-profile cases in the news reveal that some aggressive startup cultures...
by Jessica | Jun 28, 2017 | Conscious Professional Blog
Leaders at every level need candid feedback about their performance to improve. Feedback can illuminate blind spots about behavior that we just can’t see without input from others. However, providing feedback to senior leaders can be intimidating. If the COO waltzes...
by Jessica | Apr 13, 2017 | Conscious Professional Blog
It takes skillful guidance to help employees ride the wave of growth without putting them in situations that are simply too challenging for their current level or too risky for the enterprise. When we are “surfing the developmental edge,” as I like to call it, we ride...
by Jessica | Apr 13, 2017 | Conscious Professional Blog
If you’re sponsoring or developing a peer learning program, you know that professional communities of practice are a cost-effective way to leverage the collective wisdom and experience of a group of leaders with similar roles, challenges or interest areas. In...
by Jessica | Mar 1, 2017 | Conscious Professional Blog
How do you turn the searing pain of flubbing up in social entrepreneurship into something useful so you can innovate and accelerate?In the social entrepreneurship world, everyone talks about the benefits of failing fast so you can innovate and accelerate. But that’s...
