Scaling Leadership: How to Escape the Execution Trap and Drive Enterprise Impact Building Systems Instead of Solving Problems Executives advance by proving their ability to drive execution in their teams—jumping in to put out fires, overseeing operational decisions, and ensuring results get delivered. But as they rise, the very skills that propelled their careers can become constraints.  The shift to enterprise leadership is not about doing more managing—it’s about designing organizations that can operate effectively and scale without their direct involvement. If direct management is required for the business to …

HR Leaders Driving Business Performance Are You Driving Business Performance & Potential HR and OD leaders have been evolving into key players at the executive table for years. However, like all business functions, HR experiences pendulum swings in focus, shifting between prioritizing culture-building and driving business impact. Today, with organizations facing rapid market shifts, economic pressures, and increasing demands for efficiency, the business-focused side of HR leadership is more critical than ever. This doesn’t mean abandoning a people-first approach. In fact, the best way to support employees in this climate is …

The Urgency Trap: How Delayed Decisions Are Quietly Undermining Your Business In today’s high-pressure business landscape, leaders pride themselves on decisive action and agility. But too often, well-intentioned leaders inadvertently create disruption for their teams—not through poor intent, but through delayed communication and decision-making. Critical information isn’t shared in a timely manner. Certain decisions get postponed until they become urgent. And when leaders finally act, they unintentionally force their teams into last-minute scrambles, undermining efficiency, productivity, and results. This isn’t about bad leadership. It’s about a blind spot that even …

Shaping Collaboration in a Distributed Workforce Hybrid and remote work are the new standard. The game has changed for how to work together, and while there are benefits to this new approach, there are also challenges to fostering effective teamwork across locations. This blog post will explore the key strategies and skills for successful collaboration in a distributed work environment. This includes establishing a sense of ownership, honing your influencing skills, building authentic relationships, and resolving conflicts. Tune into our LinkedIn Live for a discussion on Shaping Collaboration in a Remote …

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 – it’s not business as usual. We cannot lead powerfully at …

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 and violence. Our hope and commitment is that in the …

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 to Culture What does the word “ritual” invoke in you? …

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. Anyone who has set a New Year’s Resolution and failed …

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 no longer are there any experts; to be at the …