by Emily J. Pitman | Mar 25, 2026 | Coaching, Organizational Leadership, Personal Leadership, Storytelling
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...
by Concord Leadership Group Contributor | Mar 2, 2026 | CEO/Executive Directors, Coaching, Guest Post, Organizational Leadership, Staff Relations
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...
by Emily J. Pitman | Feb 11, 2026 | Coaching, Personal Leadership
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...
by Emily J. Pitman | Dec 18, 2025 | Coach Certification, Coaching, Journey, Organizational Leadership, Personal Leadership, Q3LC Coaches
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...
by Emily J. Pitman | Dec 3, 2025 | Coaching, Organizational Leadership, Personal Leadership
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...
by Emily J. Pitman | Nov 19, 2025 | CLG News, Coaching, Focus, Identity, Storytelling, Vision
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...
by Emily J. Pitman | Nov 5, 2025 | Coaching, Journey, Organizational Leadership, Personal Leadership
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...
by Emily J. Pitman | Oct 7, 2025 | Coaching, Journey, Organizational Leadership, Personal Leadership
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...
by Emily J. Pitman | Sep 24, 2025 | Coaching, Journey, Personal Leadership
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...
by Emily J. Pitman | Sep 10, 2025 | Coaching, Organizational Leadership, Personal Leadership
This article is part of a larger series exploring leadership with a journey mindset. Journeys invite us to see leadership not as a fixed destination, but as an unfolding process—one that begins with possibility, moves through challenges, and opens up new perspectives...
