“I define empathy as the ability to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes and to understand and connect with what they are feeling - to feel what they’re feeling. You first have to understand the world as they see it through their eyes.”

Good listeners listen to what people say, and great listeners notice what people don’t say. When you know the neuroscience of listening, you realize that people can think up to nine times faster than they can speak. So the first thing they say is probably between ten and fourteen percent of what they are thinking.

"If you are not willing and able to lead wholeheartedly, get the hell out of the way so that somebody who is can."

“You win or you learn and if you’re always winning you’re not really learning.”

“Most organizations are still using some form of the old hierarchical structure that they had in the 60s and 70s.”

“Creating new futures begins with creating a new conversation.”

“I would really hate it if I wasn’t a possibilities thinker.”

I look at entrepreneurs, particularly founder-inclined people, like modern day superheroes. They are the people that are responsible for taking on the biggest challenges, with the longest, toughest odds, and overcoming incredible obstacles. And if and when they’re successful, they’re likely to change the world.”

“Relationships are the most important part of life and work.”

“Purpose is a fusion between the pursuance of our curiosities, or our passions, and the living of the exploration of those things at the same time. You really can’t intellectualize purpose. You actually have to feel and behave your way in and through it.”

“The first trend is that you have to actively seek out talent. Those days of positioning yourself as, ‘Oh, people would be so lucky if they got to work here’ are long gone. And so, you have to actively promote yourself as a leader and your brand as well as the employer brand and you have to actively attract people to your organization.”

"People mostly have the answer within them. The job of the leader is to help them find these answers."