Healing-Centered Leadership Blog

If you know me, you know that the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance is often my favorite four days of the year. It is a space filled with art, rhythm, community, and an undeniable energy that feels like a collective exhale. The festival has something for everyone. There are babies dancing alongside teenagers, alongside people in their 80's. There are people who never go to sleep and there are others who wake up rested, bright and early to do yoga with the sunr

Embodied Leadership Walk into most leadership development programs and you'll find the same toolkit: playbooks for change management, models for strategic thinking, exercises in giving feedback. All valuable. All aimed squarely at the neck up. But talk to any leader who has sat through a board meeting with a knotted stomach, or snapped at their team after a sleepless night, or felt their chest tighten right before delivering hard news, and you'll be reminded that leadership d

Dr. Laura Colket We are taught early on that serious work requires a serious demeanor. We grow up to believe that if we aren’t grinding through a to-do list, we aren't being productive. But if you want your team to truly innovate—to solve complex problems in an increasingly volatile world—you have to give them permission to be curious, to lean into their creative side, and, quite simply, to play. Play isn’t the opposite of work; it is the engine of innovation. As human beings