Where the Enneagram will leave you wanting more...
We all have our pet profile…our favorite…and why do we like them? What is it about these tools that draws us in?
10 Questions to Build Leadership Continuity
How do you ensure leadership continuity in your organization? I cannot tell you how many times we’ve been asked, “Does your whole and intentional leader development system do succession planning?” It’s a great question. At the risk of answering a question with a question, we usually follow up with, “What do you mean by succession planning?”
Leadership Lessons From My TEDx Journey
Doing a TEDx has been a developmental goal of mine for the last 10 years. It was born out of 25 years of integration of my understanding of psychological science, my experience of leaders and my own experience of leading, and something deeper in my faith and what I experience in the world of leaders every day.
WiLD Leaders Corporate Charter, Culture & Expectations
Want a glimpse into the WiLD Leaders Corporate Charter? Read it here! The team values, leadership presence, our expectations of one another, and what others can expect from us.
The Whole Performance Equation
What would change if we got beyond our fragmented conceptualization of performance as simply winning or getting the job done? Effective execution is absolutely necessary, but isn’t not sufficient on its own to inspire us. Getting the job done and seeing our people as people is what whole performance is all about.
The 10 Scientific Truths of Whole + Intentional Leader Development
What would change if we intentionally prepared a generation of courageous and sacrificial leaders who will bring thoughtfulness, conviction, hope, resourcing, strategic thinking, and deeply rooted care to the institutions and people they serve?
10 Years of Whole Leader Development; Bad Bobby Goes WiLD
It all started with the name Bad Bobby. While that may seem like an unconventional start, it is our lack of convention and desire to see leaders as they really are that is the key to everything we do. The story begins with a confession and a-ha moment. First, the confession. My name is Rob, I am a grown man, and I play video games along with 155 million other Americans. I don’t play every day, but I do enjoy them when I get a chance to play. The fact is that my understanding of video games inspired me to build an online leadership development portal and set of tools that are wholistic, real, and create deep insight and learning for leaders.
My Last Class Tonight…After 25 Years
This moment is a chance to pause, and reflect on my lessons regarding teaching after all these years. To be honest, beyond my students, I have only had one or two mentoring voices speak deeply into my teaching. So, if any of my thoughts encourage even one aspiring teacher, that would be enough. Here is top my 10 list of lessons, in the hours before I teach my last class as a full time Professor. I don’t have all these perfected, but this is what I would have told my younger self.
Re-Formed Leaders
This is not me jumping on the leadership bandwagon. Reform, fighting against the racism, brutal violence, and injustice against people of color that has plagued our country and world will take us making a deeper and more thoughtful investment in the current and next generation of leaders. Leading with compassion, courage, composure, thoughtfulness and a spirit of sacrifice takes incredible fortitude, preparation and support. The next leaders are our friends, family members, and children. Will we make the investment to prepare them well?
Whole Leaders in an Emotional Pandemic
A new reality is upon us. An opportunity - to be our best when it's a bit tougher to do so. The uncertainty of a biological pandemic is likely to impact everything we see, and a host of things we can’t. What we do see around us isn't only a need for further preparation in
WiLD Leaders – Looking Back and Forward
It’s hard to believe it’s nearly a decade since we started in the business of whole and intentional leader development and a full year since Dr. Daniel Hallak joined the WiLD Leaders team as our Chief Commercial Officer. As you may know by now, our mission has been to invest in the development and preparation of this generation of courageous and sacrificial leaders – and not just to talk about it as a good idea – but to provide an intentional pathway to their whole and intentional development through the WiLD Toolkit. It’s been a busy and unbelievably fulfilling year. So, here is a quick review of our year, lessons we’ve learned, and what’s just around the corner for WiLD Leaders.
WiLD Leaders Announces Dr. Daniel Hallak As Our Chief Commercial Officer
The team at WiLD Leaders is more than excited to announce that Dr. Daniel Hallak is joining our leadership team as our Chief Commercial Officer. Most recently in a leadership development role at Slalom Consulting and Professional Development and Employer Engagement Program Manager at Seattle Pacific University, Daniel brings an extremely unique and appropriately wild depth of experience across corporate, not-for-profit, and educational settings.
The WiLD Brand
If we had to hang our collective hat on one set of values that drive our WiLD brand, this would be it. RELATIONAL – Architecting supportive and honest conversations. Leaders don’t develop in a vacuum. Leaders don’t lead in a vacuum, so we can’t develop them alone. It gets real when we get together and risk something…
Wild Stories in a Sensible World
When it comes to our willingness to tell the stories of our lives, there are at least three kinds of people. Those too eager to share, those who don’t know there’s anything to share, and those who hesitate to share the real story. The first group defines themselves by their edginess and outside-the-box thinking (which is inside-the-box thinking, by the way). The second group lacks the awareness that they are just as weird as the rest of us, and the third group has a different kind of challenge. It’s the challenge of navigating the world of what is “sensible” and what is “wild”. I’m most interested in this third group.