Healthy Leader
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Insights and strategies to help you lead with
strength, resilience, and well-being.
When MyLinh Brewster Shattan reported to West Point in 1987, the Army still told women what they couldn't do. The combat arms (infantry, armor, artillery) were closed to us, period. She was drawn to a...
Imagine you are standing on a steep slope in Montana, 1949. You are one of fifteen elite smokejumpers parachuted into a remote canyon to fight what looked like a routine wildfire.
Within an hour, the...
If you have a body, you’re an athlete. And if you have a mind, you’re a leader.
When most people think about leadership, they picture someone commanding a team or organization. But leadership starts ...
At West Point, we made our beds every single morning.
Not casually. Not good enough. Corners sharp, blanket pulled tight, not a single wrinkle visible from the doorway. You never knew when an inspect...
What Red Team Thinking reveals about bias, truth-telling, and healthy leadership in high-stakes decisions.
You've been in that room.
The one where everyone nods in agreement. The plan sounds solid, ...
What you're serving before you've said a word
The chair scrapes loudly across the floor. Everyone hears it.
The leader leans back, arms crossed, jaw tight. The conversation hasn't gone the way they ...
What it looks like when things are going well on the outside, and quietly misaligned on the inside
The doors to the fitness center opened early that morning. The room was already full, people talking...
What do you do when you feel like someone has betrayed you?
Betrayal doesn’t just test your strategy. It tests who you are, how you think, how you lead, and even how you experience life itself.
Wh...
You don’t always see the moment trust breaks. There’s no memo. No headline. No confrontation.
It starts quietly.
A high performer stops offering ideas. A manager starts following rules instead of le...
It's everywhere. The AI pressure pulsing through every leadership conversation, every board meeting, every strategic planning session. Are you implementing fast enough? Disrupting before being disrupt...
It’s 2 PM on a Tuesday.
Your inbox is exploding, your next meeting starts in five minutes, and someone just walked into your office with “a quick question” that you know isn’t going to be quick.
You...
What do the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, Penn State's cover-up scandal, Quaker's $1.4 billion Snapple loss, the Obamacare rollout debacle, and even Watergate all have in common?
At their core,...