September 30, 2025 New Podcast Trailer:ASK IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT Click here to subscribe where you get your podcasts to get notified when the first 3 episodes drop on Monday, October 6! Think of the YouTube show "Hot Ones," but... ...instead of spicier and spicier questions ➡️ it's deeper and deeper ones...instead of celebrities ➡️ it's thought leaders in the fields of business, healthcare, culture change, and more...instead of hot wings ➡️ well, there's no food, actually. (Maybe we should add...
16 days ago • 1 min read
September 16, 2025 Balancing Policy with Judgment: The Alignment between Workplaces and Classrooms If policy isn't the end-all-be-all of healthy organizations, what else do we need to equip ourselves with? From today’s teacher, CHRISTINA MORAN, Ph.D. We are excited to welcome Christina Moran, Ph.D. as this week's guest writer for Mini Lessons! Dr. Christina Moran is an award-winning licensed psychologist and expert on creating sustainable behavioral change, helping people and organizations...
30 days ago • 2 min read
September 4, 2025 From Knowing to Becoming: What Academia Can Teach Business About Growth What if the key to thriving in business isn’t about what we know, but about how we become? From today’s teacher, JENNIFER McCUSKER, Ph.D. We are excited to welcome Jennifer McCusker, Ph.D. as this week's guest writer for Mini Lessons! Over the past 25 years, Jennifer has worked vigorously across multiple industries to position herself as a leader within the Talent & HR field. With a global career in...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
August 18, 2025 How to Really Support Someone Through Grief What does it actually look like to support someone through life’s hardest seasons? From today’s teacher, SARAH KAGAN We are excited to welcome Sarah Kagan as this week's guest writer for Mini Lessons! Sarah is a coach and founder who helps people navigate grief and design more meaningful lives after loss. After losing her mom to pancreatic cancer, Sarah left her corporate job and started building something that felt more human....
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Bonus Edition THE SIX "CHANGE LANGUAGES":LIKE LOVE LANGUAGES,BUT FOR CHANGE Learning to speak and understand different Change Languages can create the relational and collaborative clarity that change requires. Check out Aaron's article in Fast Company. Here's the link to the recent Fast Company publication. You can also read the full manuscript. As the name suggests, Fast Company is for "fast" reads—so because we wanted to say more about the subject of "Change Languages," a more thorough...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Click to open in a browser tab August 5, 2025 AUTHENTIC CONNECTIONS: The New Professional Advantage How do we suddenly grow these all-important human skills when we just spent the last couple of decades undoing them during the mobile era? From today’s teacher, ANNIE HEDGPETH We are excited to welcome Annie Hedgpeth as this week's guest writer for Mini Lessons! As the Co-Founder and Creative Director at Hedge-Ops Software, she helps organizational leaders lead with clarity, compassion, and...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Click to open in a browser tab July 22, 2025 YOUR INNER CHILDAS YOUR INNER LEARNER How could our learning and leadership benefit from remembering that we’ve got a kid in all of us? From today’s teacher, AARON BARLIN Do you remember how you would learn as a kid? Commonly, and sometimes all the way through our teens, the kiddo-version of ourselves learned through play—and all the bumps and bruises that came with it. We searched for new sights, imagined new stories and scenarios, jumped, ran,...
3 months ago • 2 min read