Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat. It’s understanding the necessity of both. It’s engaging. It’s being all in. [BRENÉ BROWN] As 2022 hurtles to the end, I find myself almost in a state of shock as to how quickly it has gone and then...
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. [AUDRE LORDE] In this article I’d like to return to the basic building block of Emotional Intelligence: Emotional Literacy. As we begin our educational journey, we are taught basic rules for spelling,...
Corporate Culture Matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything for better or for worse. [SIMON SINEK] The Vitality study has tracked global trends on emotional intelligence and performance for the past 15 years. This Vitality report covers...
What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased. [JOHN COTTON] We lost an amazing member of our community during June 2022. Heather Bensch was a valued friend, amazing teacher, and dedicated mother and wife. I want to honor her by dedicating this...
A topic that I believe we need to look at more closely is ‘Delayed gratification’ which is the ability to postpone an immediate gain in favor of greater and later reward. 40 years of Stanford research found that people with this one quality are more likely...
