“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.

“Be aware and be intentional. These are the two most important things”

“If there is a purpose to this life, I would say it’s to evolve ourselves....”

"As a leader, you are known for the conversations you create."

“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.”

“I think there’s that authenticity of integrating all dimensions of our life experience and being able to commit to truly being that authentic whole person in all moments.”

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

“Where there is curiosity, the adult in the child and the child in the adult are awaken. This is how innovation happens.”

“Executive presence is demonstrated in the qualities of a leader that engage, align, inspire, and move people to act.”

“What I realized, which is so powerful, is that people burn so much stress all day long on these micro decisions. And by picking a high-level powerful goal, they can use that as a navigating light as to all of these little micro decisions they make all day long.”

"Leadership requires you to weigh-in and weigh-over the consequences of the decision either way and how that decision affects individuals."