“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."

Trust, at its core, is built when you make and keep good promises. And we describe the ability to make good promises as having high humanity and transparency. And the ability to keep those promises we define as capability and reliability. Those are the four factors of trust.

“When we have that humble confidence, it opens up all sorts of possibilities within our team, because it gives us the opportunity where we can tap into the expertise of those around us and get their input so that we can figure out the answers to the challenges that we face.”

“Finding the courage to speak up and challenge publicly in an environment of executives far above me - people who I wanted to be like - without having that title was really challenging for me. The moment I did was the moment my career trajectory completely changed.”

“When you want to help people change, you’ve got to uncover their motivations, their drivers, then uncover the situation/impact, and figure out if it’s big enough, strong enough that they’re willing to change who they are to change the outcome.”

“I would encourage people to think about this concept of playgrounds and how they can get up every day and turn a practice into a habit into a system that allows them to have fun in their lives.”

“The power of the team is so, so much greater than any one individual.”

“Everybody in one way or another struggles with, looks forward to, is challenged by discovering who they are.”

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

"We've always gone to the wilderness and sought perspective in the less familiar places."