10 Questions to Build Leadership Continuity
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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?”

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DIFFERENCE + SAMENESS: Whole Leader Development and Diversity, Equity, + Inclusion
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DIFFERENCE + SAMENESS: Whole Leader Development and Diversity, Equity, + Inclusion

Over the past months, Rob and I have become friends and have learned so much from one another. So, as we sought to write something together regarding the relevance of whole leader development, we decided to write it as a dialogue - a conversation between us designed to explain the intentions behind the toolkit in reference to our own personal journey of inclusion and exclusion, and as a way to project where the conversation regarding differences and similarities across our contexts may be going next.

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THE MULTI-VOCATIONAL LEADER | Our Hope For the Future
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THE MULTI-VOCATIONAL LEADER | Our Hope For the Future

What does it mean to be a multi-vocational leader and what does it mean to invest in them? To be a multi-vocational leader is to be a person who is called to be a leader or a contributing member in more than one context of our lives - the number of contexts being defined by the number of different calls to serve that we may receive and the number of times we respond with a “Yes, I will serve there” answer.

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10 Years of Whole Leader Development; Bad Bobby Goes WiLD
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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.

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Whole Leaders in an Emotional Pandemic
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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

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