Invited Back

09/01/2026

I’ve been asked some really good questions over the last month, including, How is this going to change your day-to-day? and What’s next? I’ve been able to answer those questions briefly, but the more I sit with them, the more I realize that the answers aren’t found in one big change or a neatly defined next step. They are showing up in the way I think, the questions I’m asking, the work I’m drawn toward, and the responsibility I feel with what I’ve been given the opportunity to learn.

Someone recently asked if they could read my research, and I thought, well those are words I could share that got me to this point, so I might as well start with some of those. It has actually been a lot of fun to return to the titles of the papers I submitted throughout my MBA and see how much of a story they tell when placed together. What I was researching and wrestling with at different points in the program feels connected to so much of what I see happening in leadership, organizations, communities, and the world around us.

- Managing the Meaning of Work: Strategic Leadership in the New Knowledge Era

- Solving for Trust: Repairing the Damage Distrust Has Created

- Expanding Leadership Development into Japan and the Republic of Palau

- Environmental Analysis: Strategic Positioning and Cultural Leadership Development

Reading those titles now invites me back to the thread running through them: how we lead people well in a world that is changing quickly, how trust can be rebuilt when it has been damaged, how culture shapes the way leadership is understood and practiced, how organizations can remain relevant without losing what matters most, and ultimately, how we create environments where people can do meaningful work and re imagine who they were created to be.

Read more on my Substack.

08/19/2026

Lessons learned and reinforced every day.

08/10/2026

Happy 5th Birthday to Invited Back! 🎉

Excited for what’s ahead!

08/01/2026

Let’s Reimagine Together As Invited Back Turns 5!

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07/01/2026

This month, I turned forty.

Like many milestone birthdays, it has invited me into a season of reflection. We often treat the changing of a decade as though it marks the end of one person and the beginning of another, but that isn’t how this feels to me.

I carry the younger version of myself into this new decade: the dreamer, the risk-taker, the woman who said yes before she knew exactly how it would all work out. I also carry the woman shaped by disappointment, grief, unexpected joy, restoration, and quiet faithfulness. I wouldn’t trade either of them. They both belong here reminding me that growth rarely happens the way we imagine it will.

This year will undoubtedly hold significant milestones. There will be moments worth celebrating, opportunities I cannot yet see, dreams fulfilled, and new challenges waiting just beyond the horizon. Yet woven between all of those moments will be the beautiful ordinariness of everyday life: early mornings before the house wakes up, conversations around the dinner table, school schedules, work meetings, long to-do lists, practices, emails, and the countless routines that rarely feel remarkable while we’re living them.

It is these ordinary moments that sustain me.

Read more on Substack:

https://sabethkapahu.substack.com/p/forty

03/08/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/sabethkapahu/p/to-the-woman-in-the-middle?r=1fptkd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

01/13/2026

Monday thoughts.

Do what you’re going to do.

It takes as long as it takes to get it done. But it’s takes a lifetime not to do it.

We choose.

12/30/2025

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.” - Eleanor Roosevelt.

As we close out the year and I reflect on all the opportunities that opened up I can’t help but feel deep gratitude for the ways that life’s adventure carried my family. We traveled, ministered, worked and most importantly deepened relationships across the ocean, in various countries with family, friends, strangers who became friends, CEOs, leaders at every level, and even a President. We could not have imagined this for ourselves. Something miraculous happens when courage rises to the challenge and we say yes to the unknown. As we move forward with hope and faith into 2026 my desire for us all is to live bravely, excitingly and imaginatively. May we reimagine, reinvent and re-invite as we are invited back to the things that matter most.

12/06/2025

Thankful for this journey! What a gift to share words that call us to reimagine, reinvent, and reinvite together!