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Maximize your leadership potential:
We exist to help emerging leaders enhance their leadership skills so they can excel when given the opportunity to lead. Through our extensive library of online courses and our growing community of likeminded leaders, we help equip you with the skills, the understanding, and the balance to be the kind of leader you were meant to be.

08/27/2026

Can You Really Have a Great Culture Without Conflict?

Theresa Tanner makes a bold claim: you cannot have a culture of integrity without conflict. If there's no disagreement, no pushback, no healthy tension, then something is being left unsaid, and people are just keeping the peace to avoid consequences. Real integrity means people feel safe enough to challenge each other. Here's why the absence of conflict should worry you more than the presence of it.

08/26/2026

104 competitors. Same phone book.

There were 104 cleaning companies in Cincinnati, all listed in the same Yellow Pages, all reachable by the same customers. Mary Miller's team was stuck asking "where do we find people?" It's a question that keeps you competing for the same shrinking pool. The reframe was smaller than it sounds: what can we do to make people want to work here?

That single question shift changed who they were competing with, and for what.

08/25/2026

You're the boss. It's still not about you.

You can be the boss, the title, the person everyone reports to, and still be the person leadership isn't actually about. John Yockey's read on unconventional leadership starts there. The org doesn't exist to support you. You exist to get behind the team below you.

Miss that, and every decision you make quietly optimizes for the wrong person. Get it right, and the whole organization moves differently.

08/22/2026

Why Would a Woman Fight to Reach the C-Suite?

Why leave a comfortable key executive role to take on the pressure of C-suite decisions? For Theresa Tanner, the answer was simple: the chance to drive more change and have more influence. And as a woman in her industry, she knows exactly how rare that opportunity is, and refuses to take it for granted. A candid look at ambition, influence, and breaking through.

08/20/2026

Psychological safety isn't a nice-to-have

Ask what makes an unconventional leader and the answer isn't charisma or vision. It's someone willing to take a real risk because the culture around them makes that safe.

That same trust runs both directions. These are leaders who can name their own faults out loud, and who don't just dish out feedback. They take it too.

BOGO is here!Now through Aug 21, every Leadership Labs ticket for Sept 3 comes with a second one, absolutely free!Bring ...
08/19/2026

BOGO is here!

Now through Aug 21, every Leadership Labs ticket for Sept 3 comes with a second one, absolutely free!

Bring the person you think would welcome the chance to sharpen their critical thinking. A co-founder. A rising leader you're developing. Someone on your team who would benefit from this as much as you will.

Grab your tickets before it ends: https://ed.gr/ehle0

'"I was impressed... It was well designed and thought through. Training and development events don't always flow so well...
08/19/2026

'"I was impressed... It was well designed and thought through. Training and development events don't always flow so well and can be awkward, but you and your team did a great job."

- Sherry Brubaker, HR Director, Practice Operations, US Oncology Network

Sept 3 is your next chance to get a similar result for your team. Leadership Labs, The Living Room where we'll be developing "Critical Thinking for Better Decisions and Stronger Leadership."

Save your seat: https://ed.gr/ehle1

08/19/2026

How Do You Make Good Decisions in the Middle of Chaos?

When life throws chaos, fear, and uncertainty at you, your best cognitive thinking often disappears. So how do you lead through it? Teresa Tanner shares the two things she leaned on when logic wasn't enough: deeply rooted values that kick in automatically, and a community of wise counsel around her. If you want to lead through crisis without falling apart, this is where it starts.

08/18/2026

You can do it faster yourself. That's the trap.

"I can do it better myself" is the sentence John Yockey hears from nearly every capable leader right before they explain why they're buried in work that isn't theirs anymore.

It might be true. It's also the wrong question. If you want to actually multiply your impact, stop asking who does it best and start asking who you can teach to do it. Five people, not just one.

08/15/2026

Speaking up always carries a risk

Finding your voice starts with believing what you have to say actually matters. That's harder than it sounds once you've been shut down, even a single time.

Sharing anything real means taking a risk, and that risk doesn't go away. What changes is whether you decide it's worth it anyway, and whether you keep nurturing that voice until it stops feeling so exposed.

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