by Laurie Hillis | May 13, 2025 | Courage, Dare To Lead, Featured, Leadership
How to stabilize immediately when in the grip of stressIf you’ve ever experienced moments of intense stress, panic, or anxiety and have failed to successfully employ the typical techniques of calming the f down (deep breathing, closing your eyes, planting your feet...
by Laurie Hillis | Apr 28, 2025 | Courage, Dare To Lead, Featured, Leadership
Understanding Adaptability Quotient: Part 3 If you’ve read my last two blogs and your interest is piqued, I hope you’ll find this final one on the topic of Adaptability Quotient (AQ) as interesting as I did researching it. AQ blog #1, Navigating the Fastest Period of...
by Laurie Hillis | Apr 14, 2025 | Courage, Dare To Lead, Featured, Leadership
Understanding Adaptability Quotient: Part 2 Following our exploration of Ability in my previous blog about the Adaptability Quotient (AQ), it’s time to venture into another dimension: Character. What is Character? According to the AQ, character delves into the...
by Laurie Hillis | Apr 1, 2025 | Courage, Dare To Lead, Featured, Leadership
Understanding Adaptability Quotient (AQ) Is this truly the fastest period of change in human history? For all practical purposes, I believe it is! (Though my great-great-grandfather probably said the same thing when indoor plumbing arrived.) This statement, drawn from...
by Laurie Hillis | Mar 17, 2025 | Courage, Dare To Lead, Featured, Leadership
The four things followers crave from leaders Leadership is a weighty responsibility, but understanding what truly matters to those we lead can transform that weight into wings. Recently, I found myself captivated by the “Global Leadership Report: What Followers...
by Laurie Hillis | Mar 5, 2025 | Courage, Dare To Lead, Featured, Leadership
Can you handle sharing the truth? So much brilliance comes out of the mouth of Adam Grant. I watched a 41 second snippet of him and was instantly inspired to write my own thoughts about it. He shares, “You don’t necessarily want people to know what you’re bad...