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Finding Your Calm: Mindful Practices for Leadership Development If you’re taking our webinar on leadership practices and need the poetry template, download it here.  Additional Resources for Developing Mindfulness as a Leadership Practice Start with this article, which outlines four mindfulness practices you can do at your desk Meditation Lectio…

Cameron speaking at a CVDL event prior to the quarantine.   Originally published, June 2020. As part of our series, Rising to the Challenge: Values-Driven Leadership During the Coronavirus, we sat down with some of the leaders and thinkers we most respect, to get their thoughts on what this moment…

Make Remote Work or Your Next Zoom Meeting More Fun & Engaging With so much of work being mediated through our computer screens right now, businesses and leaders have gotten creative in their attempts to bring levity to video conferences. “Tired of seeing the same old faces in every Zoom…

Teresa Johnson was a single mom and the director of HR and marketing for a boat company when she learned the company was headed in a direction inconsistent with her values. “I just couldn’t do it,” says Johnson. “It came down to integrity.” Then a trusted colleague and accomplished angler,…

This article was originally published at Forbes. At the Center for Values-Driven Leadership, we help executives create companies where men and women flourish. Yet as we look across the corporate landscape, it’s clear that as leaders advance through organizations, it’s most often men who are promoted into executive leadership positions….

Sanchez-Greenberg, with colleagues at a pre-pandemic meeting. Laura Sanchez-Greenberg had an MBA and a background in helping companies grow when the company she was leading was sold; she quickly lined up an executive leadership position at a brand name e-commerce firm, but consulting requests kept coming her way. To her…

This article was originally published at Forbes.com. Over the last few weeks, we’ve been overjoyed to watch individuals and organizations launch into conversations about ending racism, building inclusive organizations, and creating a more just society. These conversations have been a long time in coming, and they deserve our full-throated support….

The day their school district reported its first coronavirus case, five teenagers from Alpharetta, Georgia, decided they could help with the response. One of the 16 year-olds, Shourya Seth, heard that evening from his cousin, an Atlanta doctor who had been wearing the same N95 mask for a week. Hospitals…

Not long ago, a prospective doctoral student asked me a question. The answer is something our team at the Center for Values-Driven Leadership thinks about quite often, but we’ve never answered it online. The question was: What is Benedictine University’s Ph.D./D.B.A Program in Values-Driven Leadership looking for in its executive…

Vacation looks a little different during a pandemic. It’s still important you take it. Your plane tickets may be canceled, but that doesn’t mean you have to skip vacation during coronavirus. In fact, taking a break from work may be the best thing you can do for your health (next…