Our Values
I love doing values work. As Roy Disney says, “It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” When we help teams to get clarity about …
Where What You Know Ends & Gen Z Begins
Do you have any employees who are 24 years old or younger? Do you want to be better to understand “cancel culture?” Do you need help modernizing your workplace in …
My Love Affair with Efficiency: A Road to Recovery
MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH EFFICIENCY: A ROAD TO RECOVERY (and perhaps yours too) (first posted 4/30/13 on www.collegeamerica.edu). 3 CONFESSIONS 1: Once, when negotiating with a boss of mine, I …
Cultivating Leadership Business Award for May 2020
The mission of Aspey, Watkins & Diesel, a highly respected full service law firm in Northern Arizona, is to have their clients’ backs as they navigate legal challenges and persevere …
Cultivating Leadership Business Award for April 2020
When it comes to an organization that cares about the health of the community, North Country HealthCare rises to the top. As a federally qualified community health center that provides …
Kate Morley, Leadership Philosophy, Mountain Line
I believe that quality outcomes come from high expectations for continual learning and growth, resourcefulness and ingenuity, and ethics and, above all, respect for others’ ideas and visions and trust …
Lessons from my father
“You may as well catch the ball.” Those words were a defining moment in my development. I was 10 years old and had just completed my first Pop Warner football …
Open your heart through civic engagement
It happens to me each time I take a yoga class. Once I am stretched into a pose and feel like I can’t possibly go any deeper, my instructor tells …
How and Why to Tell Your Story
A few years ago, I participated in a leadership development group and learned a unique way of looking at yourself through storytelling.  The individual behind this concept, Marshall Ganz, is …
Creating Culture
As the Chief of the Flagstaff Police Department, I might appreciate more than most the importance of creating the “right” culture in an organization. Today, with law enforcement under fire …