As a parent, how do you raise children who will be courageous and helpful? As a leader, how do you create a culture of courageous helpers?
Saturday Spark
Saturday Spark is a newsletter for purpose-driven leaders of all kinds. Join WeSpire Founder and CEO Susan Hunt Stevens in a weekly reflection on the principles and beliefs that are of central importance in your life and your business.
Psychological safety is the shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking. It can be defined as “being able to show and employ one’s self without fear of negative consequences.”
I think that the CEO of a purpose-driven, trusted, large company has great potential run as a candidate to unite our bifurcated electorate.
Climate activism is about to go mainstream, which means every leader needs to be prepared for an increasing level of employee activism.
If you have major stress, then a radical change may be necessary. But for most of us, small, regular actions will lead to better wellbeing.
CEOs, like grey wolves, have an outsized impact relative to other executives and other employees.
Like many leaders, I don’t completely stop working while on vacation. It’s partly the nature of entrepreneurship and running a small company. There are just
Bringing your whole self to work can mean so many things. Recently, I’ve been reading Michelle Obama’s autobiography to my daughter before bed. It’s been
Not matching with the culture is harder in small companies, unless people can openly acknowledge, respect and flex to embrace diverse work preferences.
How does one combat burnout and does having a job with purpose help or do high impact careers lead to greater burnout?
The impact of financial stress is significant, including lost time from work, lower productivity, anxiety, and higher health care costs.
Plastic is complex. How can you demonstrate personal leadership on plastics and influence the acceleration of solutions to this problem?