How Leaders Can Use Purpose to Boost Wellbeing and Performance Leaders can use purpose to improve wellbeing and performance by taking five practical steps: articulate purpose, align work with purpose, affiliate people through purpose, adapt purpose by enabling growth, and act with purpose. A clear s...

Introduction Motivation at work can feel hard to find, but it is not something you either have or don't have. It is something you uncover. At its core, motivation is about identifying what truly gets you out of bed in the morning. Once you understand this, work stops feeling like an obligation and s...

How to Navigate the Unforecastable as a Leader: A Practical Guide To navigate the unforecastable as a leader, you must build a business that can quickly adapt to sudden changes, diversify your revenue streams, and empower your teams to make fast decisions. In today's world, unexpected events like pa...

What the Latest Research Reveals About Mothers’ Careers and Pay Motherhood brings joy, but for many working mothers, it also brings a hidden cost: the "motherhood penalty." This term describes how mothers often see their earnings drop and career growth slow after having children, while fathers typic...

Your Next Job Could Be at a Wedding, Bar, or TikTok — Here’s How to Beat ATS If you’re tired of sending resumes into black holes, it’s time to change your strategy. Your next job is waiting at a wedding, bar, or TikTok — not just on LinkedIn or job boards. This is called off-the-clock recruiting, an...

Why ‘Caring’ Is the #1 Takeaway from a Master’s Degree in HR When Rod Branch, author of Week Minded: 52 Reflections on Leading and Living, finished his Master’s in Global HR Management at age 59, a friend took him out to celebrate. Over lunch, the CFO friend asked a simple question: “If you could wr...

What the Artemis II Crew Taught Jimmy Fallon About Leading in Cramped Spaces When NASA's Artemis II crew appeared on The Tonight Show, they gave Jimmy Fallon a hilarious but powerful lesson on how to lead in tight spaces. Inside the Orion capsule—about the size of a minivan—the crew ate, slept, and ...

Why Your LinkedIn Profile Matters More Than Ever If you're a leader, your LinkedIn profile is often the first thing people see before they meet you. Many leaders make common LinkedIn mistakes that hurt their reputation. The biggest error? Treating LinkedIn like a static resume instead of a living to...

Artificial intelligence has one chance to get accessibility right. If we fail, we risk repeating the web's biggest mistake—building billions of digital products that exclude over a billion people with disabilities. The 2024 WebAIM Million report found accessibility failures on 95.9% of the top one m...

Why Humming Might Be The Simplest Stress Tool You’re Not Using May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and with workplace stress at an all-time high—job burnout has hit 66%—finding quick, easy ways to calm your nervous system is more important than ever. While many turn to complicated wellness routine...

Meditation is the most underrated career tool in 2026 because it directly improves focus, reduces stress, boosts emotional intelligence, and builds resilience—all skills that drive professional success. In a world of constant notifications and rising burnout, sitting still for a few minutes each day...

Colorado’s AI Act Rewrite Moves Forward: What Employers Need to Know Colorado’s artificial intelligence law is being rewritten, and a new draft bill introduced on April 27, 2026, brings major changes for employers. Instead of focusing on whether a tool is “high-risk,” the proposal now targets how au...