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09/03/2026

A personality assessment can tell you a lot about someone. Whether they should keep their job isn’t one of them.

In this clip, Adrian explains the difference between a diagnostic tool and an evaluative one — these assessments measure tendencies, not performance, and leaning on one to justify a termination stretches it well past what it was built to do.

Adrian’s take: know the boundary before you rely on the results.

Learn more in our latest episode, The Best Personality Assessment for Leadership Development, available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.

09/02/2026

We’ve seen organizations use a personality assessment as part of a hiring decision. That’s the one thing you should never do with these tools.

In this clip, Melissa lays out why: these assessments were built to help people understand themselves and each other, not to screen candidates. Using one that way turns a development tool into a liability — for the person and for the company.

Melissa’s take: if a personality test is in the room during a hiring conversation, it shouldn’t be.

Learn more in our latest episode, The Best Personality Assessment for Leadership Development, available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.

09/01/2026

CliftonStrengths is an easy tool to understand - focus on your strengths!

In this clip, Adrian breaks it down: it’s not about fixing what’s wrong with you, it’s about naming what you’re already good at so you can use it on purpose. It’s one of six assessments they cover in the episode, and one of the most misunderstood.

Learn more in our latest episode, The Best Personality Assessment for Leadership Development, available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.

08/31/2026

Hogan has a reputation, and part of it is deserved: it is genuinely expensive.

In this clip, Adrian explains why the cost isn’t actually the problem — using it for the wrong purpose is. Hogan is built for executive coaching and helping leaders see how they show up under pressure, not for a general team offsite. Used the right way, on the right person, it earns its price tag.

Adrian’s take: know what you’re solving for before you spend on Hogan.

Learn more in our latest episode, The Best Personality Assessment for Leadership Development, available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.

08/24/2026

“Trust the process” isn’t enough anymore.

If you want people to trust you through change, you have to give them a reason to.

Especially when there’s no obvious right answer.

Because here’s the thing: people will follow a pivot they understand. They’ll give you room to change direction when they trust that you’re not changing direction randomly.

But that trust doesn’t magically appear when you need it.

You build it before the hard moment.

You explain the why. You bring people into the thinking. You show them what you see that they may not see yet.

That’s how you earn the room to lead through uncertainty.

And it matters now more than ever, especially with Gen Z and Millennials navigating record levels of mistrust in institutions.

Trust isn’t a nice-to-have, it’s a leadership competency you have to build, and one of the Four Forces of Resilient Leadership.

We go much deeper into what that actually looks like in our latest podcast episode.

Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube.

08/21/2026

Every technology implementation gives you a choice: invest the time on the front end, or pay for it on the back end.

Due diligence. Documentation. Revising your process for what’s now possible. A real plan before go-live. It’s slower up front, but skip it and that cost just moves downstream, where it’s bigger and harder to fix.

Or as Melissa puts it “pay your grocer, or pay your cardiologist.”

Decades of database migrations have taught me the same lesson every time. Invest in the time to slow down first.

Learn more about the Four Forces of Resilient Leadership in our latest episode, available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.

08/21/2026

Great leaders understand the ripple effects of every decision, system, and lever they pull, which is why operational foresight is becoming one of the most critical leadership competencies in high change environments.

Change is no longer just a moment in time. It’s not an event or something you can lead through anymore. Change is happen...
08/20/2026

Change is no longer just a moment in time. It’s not an event or something you can lead through anymore. Change is happening all the time, all around us, and we’ve been hard at work redefining what it means to be a resilient leader in times of high change.

After years of working with leaders of all levels, we’ve developed the Four Forces ™ of Resilient Leadership, a four-part, research backed framework that identifies the competencies leaders need to navigate constant change — and still get results.

08/18/2026

“Most leadership advice was built for a world that no longer exists.”

Melissa makes the case that the pace of change — what used to take 16 to 18 months — is now moving rapidly, and old playbooks can’t keep up. Adrian adds the antidote: real reflection with your team, and getting clear on where to focus, so you can move at the speed the moment demands.

Learn more about the Four Forces of Resilient Leadership in our latest episode, available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.

08/17/2026

Technology can be a force for good in periods of change, when stress is high. AI showed a client the truth she wasn’t ready to accept: she was interrupting and dominating conversations rather than listening and leading.

Adrian shares how a client fed her own meeting transcripts into AI and asked it to grade her — how much she talked, how much she listened, what to improve. The feedback was blunt enough to bring her to tears. But it also gave her a safe space to process it on her own, without judgment — and she’s already putting the changes into practice.

Learn more about the Four Forces of Resilient Leadership in our latest episode, available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube.

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