Embracing Candor and Accountability
My leadership team are talented, kind and good people learning to use candor and accountability so we do right by ourselves and other people.
Articles and Posts
Insights on leadership, technology, and human-centered strategy, originally shared on LinkedIn and expanded for deeper exploration.
The Importance of Lived Experience in Leadership
How many leaders have spent significant time working the job most of their employees do every day? Lived experience opens us up to empathy.
Mastering Leadership Level-10 Meetings
I’m starting to feel the urgency and crispness with which a leadership level-10 (L10) meeting runs when all participants honor the intent and format. As with all process adoption, faithful repetition beyond the point of fatigue brings learning.
The Challenge of Organizational Change
Changing an organization can feel like pulling parts off a well-oiled machine even when all that machine is highly optimized for is leaking oil.
The Joy of Helping Others Achieve
Helping people accomplish really interesting things is itself a really interesting thing.
Navigating Leadership Team Dynamics
Two months in and our newly formed leadership team is entering storming. Perspective explains my excitement. Appreciation for the trust, respect and psychological safety we’re building and the candor we are learning to express.
Emphasizing Integrity in Decision Making
Ask open questions. Create multiple options. Act consistent with your core values. Empathize with and work towards everyone’s long term best interests. Focus on the integrity and quality of your decisons over dread of the outcomes.
Embracing Multiple Options in Decision Making
Heeding George Dinwiddie’s advice to challenge any one or two choice decision important to people (false dilemma). Reaching for options 3,4,5,6… joins my conscience and empathy to my interests. Thank you, Sir!
Gratitude for My Team's Dedication
I’m grateful to work with my fellow Striders. This recognition of their dedication and professionalism is well-deserved and we will continue to approach our work with honesty and humility as we iterate, learn and strive to embody agile principles. #inc500
Investing in Continuous Improvement
To start continuous improvement you need to invest in learning, champion individuals who drive change, and proceed despite criticism at a methodical, predictable pace. It will feel too slow at first but actually gets more stuff done.
Maintaining Culture During Growth
Stride Consulting featured in BuiltInNyc. Focus is on what we’re doing to maintain our culture as we grow.
Rethinking High School CS Curriculum
I recently attended a high school computer science fair and was truly impressed by the students. However, I noticed that the curriculum mainly focuses on programming languages. I believe we should prioritize building classes around teamwork, emergent design, and iterative delivery. Our industry needs more creative and collaborative problem solvers. Let's save the Java vs JS debate for later.