Generative Blog
Insights at the Intersection
of Disruption and Leadership
Our blog explores what it means to lead in a world that won’t sit still. From navigating organizational transformation to sustaining personal resilience, these insights are drawn from real client experiences, emerging research, and lessons forged in moments of change. Whether you’re a CEO, team leader, or curious thinker—this is a space for clarity, strategy, and reflection.
AI Is Triggering a Leadership Identity Crisis. Character Is the Way Through.
The speed of AI adoption is reshaping work faster than leaders can adapt. New tools show up every quarter, job expectations shift without warning, and executive teams feel constant pressure to “get ahead of the curve.” Billions of dollars flow
Will Today’s Leaders Meet the Moment?
This is a time that calls for those who claim to be leaders to meet the moment. Societies are on fire from the Middle East to Ukraine to the United States to Latin America causing massive disruption. Refugees stream outside
Diversifying Leadership to Build the Next Generation of Leaders
Note: This edition is not a blog post, but rather a link to a new white paper I collaborated with my friend and Korn Ferry colleague, Fayruz Kirtzman. To read the article, follow this link and scroll to the navigation bars below
THE DISCIPLINE FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEI: What Comes Next?
For twenty-five years I’ve worked inside the field that came to be known as DEI. Over the past two years that field has been attacked, dismantled, and in many circles declared dead. Some of the criticism was badly intentioned. Some
WHAT THE NFL KNOWS: Bad Bunny Is Just the Beginning
It’s been a week since Bad Bunny exploded at midfield during halftime with an all-out, full-throated declaration of Latinoness in an all-out multicultural subversive dance party that had nearly 130 million grooving. By now, the memes have run their course,
AI Has Created a Confidence Crisis for Leaders
The speed of AI adoption is reshaping work faster than leaders can adapt. New tools show up at a dizzying rate, job expectations shift by the Slack message, and executive teams feel constant pressure to see around corners. Billions of
A FORGOTTEN CITY’S WARNING: Division Will Undo Us All
Why is Montgomery, Alabama so hard to reach? No direct flights from Chicago, New York, San Francisco. You have to hopscotch into this Ground Zero of Civil Rights through Charlotte, Atlanta, D.C. Maybe it’s because many Americans want to forget
Andrés Featured in The Sourcing Hero Podcast
How we think about inclusivity in today’s workforce has a lot to do with how we view diversity. The strongest, most resilient teams take the best characteristics, experiences, and approaches that each individual member has to offer, shine a light
We are LIVE! DISRUPT: The Podcast
The disruption we’ve been talking about is no longer a distant horizon. It’s here. And today, so is DISRUPT: The Podcast. The world we live in is shifting in ways both visible and invisible. Some changes crash on top of
THE PTSD GENERATION: Gen Zers Need Empathy Not Judgment
Which is it? Is Gen Z lazy? Entitled? Promotion-hungry? Unwilling to pay their dues? Resistant to authority? Obsessed with work-from-home? Or are their managers missing the point entirely? I see too much evidence that it’s the latter. What I see
HEARTBREAK ON PARADE: Communal and Personal Heartbreak and Healing on the Parade Route
Reflections on the third anniversary of the 4th of July shooting in Highland Park Under cloudy skies threatening rain, we stacked ourselves up on First Avenue for the parade to start, finding our places as elected officials in relation to
AUTHENTICITY: In a Time of Chaos, Start by Finding your Center
Living an authentic life—being true to ourselves in our personal and professional arenas—is one of the most challenging things humans can do. In an era of disruption, even more so. The more uncentered things get outside of us, the more