The Third Turn

Earlier this morning, I opened the FUEL conference, a meeting of 100 or so business leaders who draw upon their Christian faith and ethical commitments as they lead the organizations they steward. Thank you to Linda Maris and National Christian Foundation|Wisconsin for persevering through COVID to put this together! Here are the opening comments I shared:

I was fascinated when deeply experienced women executives from differing careers and separate places began gathering cohorts of accomplished women leaders.  Was this a thing?

Here is a conversation with three such leaders that is worth your consideration and passing along to women leaders you know who would benefit from deeper connection.

It’s now a year since we launched Maestro-level leaders.

My postings to this blog have been minimal in 2015, and almost nothing since the summer began.

My family story is one of holding our household together through my wife's long battle with leiomyosarcoma. Eighteen occurrences in sixteen years is a lot for anyone. We've made it this far, raising our children and now enjoying being grandparents, while building Design Group International, completing research projects related to graduate education, and finding ways to enjoy life, however constricted it might feel.

Let us admit that the temptation in the cartoon at right is faced by executive leaders everywhere!