A Different Way To Lead: Creating Space For Your People To Thrive Have you ever heard the phrase “Leaders are born, not made?”  Science doesn’t back it up. So what makes someone a good leader? Leading with heart has been especially important these last couple of years between the pandemic and civil unrest in the US. We’ve thought a lot about leadership throughout these stressful times. Now more than ever people leaders are expected to show their humanity, their empathy – …

Pride & Authenticity By the ThinkHuman Team As we close out PRIDE month, we are reminded of The Stonewall Rebellion and how it galvanized the queer liberation movement. On the 52nd anniversary of the uprising we are in partnership and solidarity with our LGBTQA+ community for the fundamental rights to freedom and justice. In the decades since the Stonewall Rebellion we’ve had many reasons to celebrate Pride around the globe but we’re also cognizant of the fact that the LGBTQA+ community faces ongoing oppression …

Rituals & Culture WRITTEN BY Fatma Ghedira & Amy Stewart When I travel the country as a facilitator for ThinkHuman, I get to hear some of the brightest leaders discuss how they’re creating thriving values-centered cultures, but when I’m down in the trenches with companies trying to create, scale, or fix their culture, they still feel a lot of confusion A core question is: how do we embed conceptual values and behavior in a culture? One answer: rituals. How Rituals Contribute …

HEAD + HEART WRITTEN BY Marin Cohn, THINKHUMAN CONSULTANT + COACH If you’re like most people leaders, you struggle with how to inspire your employees to make lasting change. You have likely had your fair share of tough conversations and have seen your employees make commitments with the utmost sincerity. Yet, when something gets sticky, or when deadlines are tight, those commitments fall by the wayside and they revert to old habits. This story isn’t familiar only in the workplace. …

A Learning Mindset: Critical Currency for the 21st century WRITTEN BY Marin Cohn, THINKHUMAN CONSULTANT + COACH In his latest book, Thank You for Being Late, Thomas Friedman argues that people are fairly adaptable. The problem, he says, is that our capacity to adapt is being outpaced by the ever faster-changing forces of technology. Everything keeps getting faster. We see this every day in our own work, and with the clients that we work with. The accelerating pace of change means that …

Thinx: Your Company Culture is your Brand. Period. Thinx is providing a beautiful case study for what can happen in an organization when your brand does not match the internal culture. WRITTEN BY JULIANE CORMAN, THINKHUMAN CONSULTANT + COACH Recently, there has been a good deal of buzz around Thinx, the company that brought us the moisture-wicking, absorbent underwear for women on their periods. Whether or not you’re of the menstruating gender, Thinx is providing a beautiful case study for …

Spending 10 Minutes a Day on Mindfulness Subtly Changes the Way You React to Everything ADAPTED FROM HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW Leaders across the globe feel that the unprecedented busyness of modern-day leadership makes them more reactive and less proactive. There is a solution to this hardwired, reactionary leadership approach: mindfulness. Mindfulness can help people create a one-second mental space between an event or stimulus and their response to it. Research has found that mindfulness training alters our brains and how we …

Uber’s Culture Issues Stem from the Leadership A myriad of scandals has propelled Uber and its company culture into the spotlight. Many are asking how this company culture developed. Written by Juliane Corman, ThinkHuman Consultant + Coach A myriad of scandals in the past few weeks has propelled Uber and its company culture into the spotlight. Let’s briefly review – sexual harassment has been reported to HR and not resolved, policies were apparently created to evade authorities where Uber was prohibited, …

Rockstar start-up culture conviction from PayPal “What are your top five priorities for the week?” “What are the top three objectives and key results you’re using to measure how you’re doing for the quarter?” These are pointed and tough questions from managers at work to help their teams prioritize and focus on achieving the most important accomplishments. For Peter Thiel, PayPal billionaire, famed entrepreneur and investor, these don’t nearly go far enough. As the founder of PayPal, Thiel developed an …