by Emily J. Pitman | Apr 8, 2026 | Coaching, Journey, Organizational Leadership, Personal Leadership
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...
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 | 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 22, 2025 | Focus, Journey, Organizational Leadership, Personal Leadership
Marc and I have a secret trick that we use whenever we move, go on vacation, or take on a big house project. We always keep a deck of cards nearby. Our cards of choice include UNO, Skip-Bo, or a standard deck that we can play Cribbage with. We don’t always play, but...
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 | Aug 25, 2025 | Coaching, Journey, Personal Leadership, Vision
Many people know that Marc and I grew up in Maine—and that we now live in South Carolina. When we moved here (ten years ago this summer!), it wasn’t because we had any certainty. We were moving to a place that ticked the boxes on what we were looking for (homeschool...
by Concord Leadership Group Contributor | Dec 3, 2024 | Journey
2023 saw 5.5 million new business applications, maintaining the surge in entrepreneurship that has been ongoing since 2020. While this boom in business is a good sign economically, it also means that as a small business owner, you now have to face additional...
by Emily J. Pitman | Jul 31, 2024 | Journey, Personal Leadership
“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it’s also that difficult.” Warren Bennis as quoted in Your Body is Your Brain Let’s Read Our local chapter of the International Coach Federation (ICF-SC) has chosen to read...
by CLG Admin | Apr 25, 2022 | CEO/Executive Directors, Journey, Middle Managers
Habits can be incredibly helpful. They can help us use our time more efficiently. And they can increase our capacity to do more of what we’d prefer to be doing. But making an activity become a habit takes time. And focus. And effort. So much time, focus, and...
