I learned to drive on an Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme in the 1980s. I am under five feet tall, and the seat of that car was not built with me in mind. My parents solved this practically and without fanfare: they bought rocking chair cushions and propped me up until I...
Something you might not know about me: I love and collect children’s picture books. I don’t mean this in a nostalgic, “I-used-to-read-them-to-my-kids” kind of way. I mean I actively seek them out, I think about them seriously as art and...
Clinical staff undergo years of intensive training to master technical procedures, understand complex diagnostics, and deliver life-saving care. However, while medical schools and nursing programs excel at teaching the hard science of healthcare, the “soft...
The first (only?) time Marc and I attempted canoeing together wasn’t pretty. I was in my second trimester of pregnancy. We had been married for just four years. And we were leading a camping trip with a dozen high school students from the boarding school where we had...
If you’ve been around Concord Leadership Group for any amount of time, you’ve heard us talk about Q3LC—Quadrant 3 Leadership Coach Certification. This program grew directly out of Marc’s book, The Surprising Gift of Doubt. From that work, we developed a ten-week...
I have an aquarium in my office. Right now, it holds one small fish and one persistent snail. The tank needs a clean and a top-up of water. I know this. And yet… I’ve been enjoying the soft background sound of water dribbling from the filter into the tank. It’s...
Concord Leadership Group. It’s a name that carries more meaning than most people realize. And like most things in our life and work, it began with story. The Word “Concord” Was Already in My Life Before it ever became our company name, Concord already lived in my...
Over the past several months, we’ve been traveling together through what we’ve called a Journey Mindset. We began with Possibility, that spark of imagination that calls us forward even when the path isn’t clear. We noticed Patterns, the steady rhythms and quiet...
When Marc and I first used the phrase “co-pilgrims on an unknown journey together, for an unspecified length of time,” we didn’t realize how deeply true that language would become. We used it lightly at first — a poetic alternative to “dating.” Over time, it has...
In this series, we’ve been exploring what it looks like to approach leadership with a journey mindset. Journeys begin with possibility, and they move through recognizable patterns. But along the way, they also invite surprises. Sometimes those surprises feel...
