Building Resilience with Appreciate Inquiry

by | Feb 15, 2022 | Conversations

We didn’t set out On this journey, To travel the path Of resilience, But Resilience howled to us, Its voice hoarse against the wild wind of life -Joan Mcarthur-Blair 2017 This powerful poem, written by Joan, “howls” to us at A Leadership Beyond. Listen to the...

Leveling Up!

by | Feb 2, 2022 | Conversations

We are thrilled to announce some upcoming enhancements to A Leadership Beyond! First, a reminder of how our community of conversation began with an awareness, intention, and a reality check – and how that has shaped this community. Here’s how it happened: Adrienne and...

Conversation Worth Having

by | Jan 26, 2022 | Conversations

“We live in worlds our conversations create.” -David L. Cooperrider Interview with Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres We are thrilled to publish our interview with Jackie Stavros and Cheri Torres, authors of  Conversations Worth Having – Using Appreciative Inquiry to...

Power of Slowing Down

by | Dec 21, 2021 | Conversations

Listen to Adrienne and Tom discussing the benefits of remembering the power of slowing down: You’ve heard it said, “sometimes we must slow down to speed up”. The clearer we get, the greater our capacity to handle a steady pace. First, we need to catch our breath, step...

A Leadership Beyond Begins With Conversation

by | Dec 7, 2021 | Conversations

“We Live in a world our conversations create.” – David L. Cooperrider   This short video captures some of the conversation we had in our initial power lunch series, “Leadership Beyond Pandemic.” After this series, we asked What’s next? We dropped the word...