A school principal and her newly hired AP are in a conference room discussing the mission and vision of the school during a new hire onboarding day. Suddenly a woman bursts in, the 9th grade counselor. She is clearly upset and begins to shout, jump up and down,...
I wanted to call this value, Bring your best self, but after reading Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead, I changed it based on her definition of wholeheartedness: engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to...
In the mastermind, we are about taking action even when it’s not necessarily comfortable. I think leadership can be scary. Years ago I rode a water roller coaster with my nephews Silas and Levi. At the time, Levi was young and just tall enough to get on the...
The next five posts will focus on the core values of the mastermind. We’ll start with Lead Like Madiba. As you read, consider that the core value isn’t a generic terms like “integrity, service, honor.” No, these are sticky core values. They are...
Before I bought my first fountain pen, I wondered, “Does it work?” I looked at reviews on Amazon and watched YouTube explainer videos before making the purchase. Maybe you’ve had the same thought regarding the mastermind. Does it work? The other day...
2020 has been one heck of a year. Before the protests there was a pandemic. In fact, there still is a pandemic. But if you go back to February 2020 in your mind’s eye, when COVID-19 cases were starting to exponentially increase outside of China, education was...
