By: Darren Banek on January 30, 2025
I had a goal and a plan, and it was all starting to come together. I knew I wanted to internalize this week’s material and write better than last week, hoping that last week’s blog post was slightly better than two weeks ago. All that needed to happen was to start typing out my introductory…
By: David Weston on January 30, 2025
Sir Francis Bacon once posited, explaining his quote above, that “much like the sun’s heat, it has the ability to transform and reveal the underlying qualities of people and things, making them pliable and firm and exposing inherent characteristics.” [1] Tom Comacho’s Book, Mining for Gold: Developing Leaders through Coaching, is a wonderful treatise on…
By: Graham English on January 30, 2025
As we start a new chapter of life and leadership in 2025 and the second half of the DLGP, I am aware of the complexity of leadership in our ever-changing world. Leadership is about context. While there is certainly timeless leadership wisdom, the field of leadership study has evolved significantly, with the recognition that what…
By: Mika Harry on January 30, 2025
I’ve not been a good coach in the past. As a strong one on the enneagram, justice is my word, and doing things “correctly” is my high priority. So, it may be no surprise that I find it incredibly frustrating when someone asks for my advice and then doesn’t do what appears so obviously correct.…
By: Joel Zantingh on January 30, 2025
This week’s foray into Illuminaire: Bringing Life & Light to Leaders Across The World gave me a gift in the phrase, “the journey of becoming” [1]. It was not long ago, in 2021 to 2022, that I was in a major transition in my leadership journey for a year and a half, and what I experienced…
By: Robert Radcliff on January 30, 2025
This week, I read Tom Camacho’s Mining for Gold. It is a primer on coaching to help leaders draw out the God-given talents from their team so people can flourish. I want to extend an idea that Tom Camacho developed in his book that he didn’t fully develop. Camacho says that our Sweet Spot is…
By: Rich on January 29, 2025
I come from a long line of teachers. My grandfather taught languages on the high school and college levels. My dad earned a D.Ed. and was a high school principal. My mom and sister taught elementary school. My sister was born to teach. She taught me to read when I was three. She was five!…
By: Joff Williams on January 29, 2025
“Where we see ordinary people, God sees a rich deposit of gold waiting to be brought forth.” Camacho [1] I enjoy coaching and mentoring. I have had several wonderful people generously share their thoughts, wisdom, and experiences with me. They had helped me seek the Lord in discovering the gold in me, and I wish…
By: Christy on January 29, 2025
Every 8 years, my organization appoints a new executive director, and we are currently walking through this process. Sometimes, this change comes with minimal disruption to organizational direction, and other times it comes with a change of direction, a completely new executive leadership team, and entirely new structures. Thankfully, our board has been pleased with…
By: Michael Hansen on January 29, 2025
I met Pete during my first week at the company. My direct reports and I walked through an assimilation exercise, and I was able to ascertain a few points about their behaviors, backgrounds, and overall company culture. I then transitioned to a series of one-on-one interviews where we dove deeper into their roles, hobbies, family,…
By: Jennifer Eckert on January 29, 2025
I used to have a beautiful chestnut brown pony named Cupcake, with a vibrant star on her forehead and one white sock. She was a mix of a Quarter Horse and a Shetland Pony, perfectly sized for a scrawny kid like me. My mother, a single parent with a modest income, bought her for me…
By: Diane Tuttle on January 29, 2025
A book feels like I have an old friend in my hands. I like the texture, the ability to turn a corner of a page to mark my spot and writing some notes in the margins. Yes, Dr. Jason, I still like to write in my books. Consequently, I was not excited about reading this…
By: Shela Sullivan on January 28, 2025
Karise Hutchinson is a Professor of Leadership and the founder of Illuminaire Leadership, also known as Illuminaire Institute. Hutchinson has dedicated over 20 years to researching, teaching, consulting, and writing about leadership, with the aim to bring life and light to leaders across the globe. Illuminaire Institute uses storytelling to make complex leadership research both…
By: Mathews Manaloor on January 28, 2025
Reading the Overcoming barriers to student learning: threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge [1] on the heels of our first book How to Read a Book [2] certainly made reading and understanding of this book easier. By following the outlines of looking at the publishing data, table of contents, background of the contributors, index, foreword and…
By: Adam Cheney on January 28, 2025
This has been a hard week to work in the world of immigration. To put it bluntly, I am exhausted and weary. Executive Orders regarding immigration seem to be coming at lightning speed and it is challenging to stay on top of them. Add this to barrage of needs and requests and it feels a…
By: Glyn Barrett on January 28, 2025
Karise Hutchinson’s leadership magazine Illuminaire[i] provides an exploration of leadership and is a blend of research findings, thought-provoking conversations with leadership consultants, and reflective essays, offering a holistic view of what it means to lead effectively in today’s world. The magazine is organised into four thematic sections, each commentating a distinct aspect of leadership.…
By: Ryan Thorson on January 27, 2025
“The mind that comes to rest is tended In some ways that it cannot intend Is born, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.” ~ Wendell Berry, from 1979 in This Day I appreciated very much reading through this volume of illuminaire on leadership. Hutchinson and her contributors have woven together a wonderful tapestry…
By: Jeff Styer on January 27, 2025
Illuminaire Volume One was a refreshing publication to read.[1] Karise Hutchinson effectively laid out the purpose of the publication “I created Illuminaire Press to provide a platform that harnesses the collective wisdom from research and practice, bringing science and strategy of leadership together through story and art. In my experience, it is the triangulation that…
By: Joel Zantingh on January 27, 2025
We’re in an interesting cultural moment with Artificial Intelligence (AI) advancing exponentially, reinforcing the necessity to discover what it means to truly be human. When we speak of intelligence, the importance of knowledge and of productivity are there, but there are elements of our human-essence that go far beyond what the AI is coded for,…
By: Noel Liemam on January 26, 2025
Issue of AI “Two of the biggest design problems in Artificial Intelligence are how to build robots that behave in line with human values and how to stop them ever from going rogue. One under-explored solution these alignment and control problems might be to examine how these are already addressed in the design of humans.…
