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Don’t miss our webinar this week!Are you watching capable leaders struggle under the weight of change and complexity? If...
11/05/2026

Don’t miss our webinar this week!

Are you watching capable leaders struggle under the weight of change and complexity?

If you're watching capable leaders struggle under the weight of constant change, competing priorities, and mounting complexity — you're not imagining it. The demands on leaders today have fundamentally outpaced the development most organizations have given them.

Join AIIR Consulting and seasoned talent executive Larry Clark for a webinar where we will explore why traditional leadership development falls short in today's environment, and what a more targeted approach looks like in practice.

This immersive 60-minute session will feature practical frameworks, interactive discussions and real client success stories with a global talent leader at one of the largest commercial insurance companies in the world. You will leave with concrete strategies for closing your organization's most critical leadership performance gaps — and a clear way to make the business case for doing so.

Space is limited to ensure an immersive learning experience. Register today: https://hubs.ly/Q04g4h-X0

08/05/2026

The bigger the vision, the heavier the load.

As ambition rises, so does the fear of falling short.

And in most organizations, that fear lands on one person at the top. Leaders carry it on their own, often without anywhere to put it down.

That's where containment comes in. Not as a therapy concept, but as a leadership one. When anxiety has nowhere to go, it leaks into the team, the culture, the work. Building containers, spaces, relationships, and structures that hold that fear, is what allows leaders and their people to stay focused on what actually matters.

But here's the question nobody asks: who contains the leader?

On this episode of A Podcast About Leadership, AIIR CEO Dr. Jonathan Kirschner and Managing Partner Joy Nissen sit down with leadership advisor and executive coach Wissam Adib to explore one of the most overlooked dynamics in high performance leadership.

Catch the full conversation wherever you get your podcasts.
Spotify: https://hubs.ly/Q04fYJg20
Apple Podcasts: https://hubs.ly/Q04fYWs40
YouTube: https://hubs.ly/Q04fYRCV0

If you are responsible for leadership development at your organization, this question is worth sitting with.Is your coac...
07/05/2026

If you are responsible for leadership development at your organization, this question is worth sitting with.

Is your coaching methodology actually built to produce durable behavior change? Or is it built to produce a good experience?

Those are not the same thing.

At AIIR, we built the AIIR Method around these requirements. Across 714 coaching engagements in more than 300 organizations, 78% of leaders reported improved team performance and 72% saw gains in employee engagement. Not because the coaching felt good. Because it was built on science.

The question for HR and talent leaders is no longer whether coaching works. It is whether your coaching methodology is built to produce the outcomes the research says are possible.

Read The AIIR Method whitepaper and find out: https://hubs.ly/Q04fNKLR0

If you checked any of those boxes, you're not alone.Across 271 teams and 2,500+ individuals, these signals showed up con...
06/05/2026

If you checked any of those boxes, you're not alone.

Across 271 teams and 2,500+ individuals, these signals showed up consistently — in every industry, at every level. What looks like a people problem is usually something deeper: a system that's quietly making it harder to lead, align, and trust.

The State of Teams identifies the five forces behind the decline and gives leaders a practical framework for addressing them.

Read the full whitepaper: https://hubs.ly/Q04fCZty0

05/05/2026

The CHRO role has fundamentally changed — and there's no going back.

Five years ago, the job was about winning the war for talent. Attracting the right people. Retaining them. Running the systems that made your organization a competitive employer.

That's still important. But today, it's table stakes.

The most effective CHROs aren't just people leaders anymore. They're enterprise executives, sitting alongside the CFO, the CMO, the CTO, asking the same hard questions about investment, value creation, and business strategy. The people lens is their superpower. But escaping the business problem entirely? That's no longer an option.

On this episode of A Podcast About Leadership, AIIR CEO Dr. Jonathan Kirschner sits down with Maxine Carrington, Chief People Officer at Northwell Health, Bill Strahan, EVP of Human Resources at Comcast, and John Touey, Managing Partner at Trilogy Talent Advisors, to explore what it really means to lead HR in 2026.

Catch the full conversation wherever you get your podcasts.
Spotify: https://hubs.ly/Q04fqCby0
Apple Podcasts: https://hubs.ly/Q04fqFm40
Youtube: https://hubs.ly/Q04fqkC00

Every team has a ceiling. Most never find out where it is.Not because they aren't talented. Not because they aren't tryi...
04/05/2026

Every team has a ceiling. Most never find out where it is.

Not because they aren't talented. Not because they aren't trying. But because they never slow down long enough to examine how they're working together.

Our research across 271 teams found that the highest-scoring behavior was leaders creating urgency for results. The lowest? Team members giving each other honest feedback.

That gap tells the whole story. We've built cultures that are great at pushing forward and uncomfortable with looking inward. And the data shows it's catching up with us.

The good news: the ceiling isn't fixed. AIIR Consulting's The State of Teams identifies the five forces driving the decline in team effectiveness and what leaders can do to raise the bar.

Read the full whitepaper: https://hubs.ly/Q04fgt8Q0

Every team has a ceiling. Most never find out where it is.Not because they aren't talented. Not because they aren't tryi...
01/05/2026

Every team has a ceiling. Most never find out where it is.

Not because they aren't talented. Not because they aren't trying. But because they never slow down long enough to examine how they're working together.

Our research across 271 teams found that the highest-scoring behavior was leaders creating urgency for results. The lowest? Team members giving each other honest feedback.

That gap tells the whole story. We've built cultures that are great at pushing forward and uncomfortable with looking inward. And the data shows it's catching up with us.

The good news: the ceiling isn't fixed. AIIR Consulting's The State of Teams identifies the five forces driving the decline in team effectiveness and what leaders can do to raise the bar.

Read the full whitepaper: https://hubs.ly/Q04f7v7y0

30/04/2026

"Fail fast" only works if failure is actually allowed.

In many organizations, it isn't. Leaders know they need to innovate, they know they need to experiment, but the fear of losing credibility quietly kills the appetite for risk before it ever gets started.

So the goal isn't to make people comfortable with failure. It's to change the story around what's actually happening. Not an experiment that failed. An experiment that succeeded in learning.
That reframe is how you build a culture where people are willing to stand at the edge of what's possible.

On this episode of A Podcast About Leadership, AIIR CEO Dr. Jonathan Kirschner and Managing Partner Joy Nissen sit down with leadership advisor and executive coach Wissam Adib to explore what real innovation culture requires.

Catch the full conversation wherever you get your podcasts.
Spotify: https://hubs.ly/Q04f0dgw0 Apple Podcasts: https://hubs.ly/Q04f08LW0
YouTube: https://hubs.ly/Q04f0dsG0

Are you watching capable leaders struggle under the weight of change and complexity? If you're watching capable leaders ...
29/04/2026

Are you watching capable leaders struggle under the weight of change and complexity?

If you're watching capable leaders struggle under the weight of constant change, competing priorities, and mounting complexity — you're not imagining it. The demands on leaders today have fundamentally outpaced the development most organizations have given them.

Join AIIR Consulting and seasoned talent executive Larry Clark for a webinar where we will explore why traditional leadership development falls short in today's environment, and what a more targeted approach looks like in practice.

This immersive 60-minute session will feature practical frameworks, interactive discussions and real client success stories with a global talent leader at one of the largest commercial insurance companies in the world. You will leave with concrete strategies for closing your organization's most critical leadership performance gaps — and a clear way to make the business case for doing so.

Space is limited to ensure an immersive learning experience. Register today: https://hubs.ly/Q04dKlX40

In the early 2000s, GPS gave us freedom through certainty. Follow the blue line. Trust the voice. Never get lost.Two dec...
28/04/2026

In the early 2000s, GPS gave us freedom through certainty. Follow the blue line. Trust the voice. Never get lost.

Two decades later, it's made us passive navigators. And that's exactly the problem facing senior leaders today.

The challenges you're navigating now have no blue line to follow. No map at all. Geopolitical fragility, AI-driven transformation, a workforce with fundamentally different expectations. These aren't problems you can solve with expertise and a decisive call.

AIIR's Larry Clark calls these adaptive challenges. And the instinct that built most leaders' careers — diagnose quickly, decide decisively, drive ex*****on — actively backfires when applied to them.

In his latest piece, Larry distills Heifetz's Adaptive Leadership model into three movements leaders can actually use: Read the System. Regulate the Tension. Activate Collective Leadership.
The leaders who will define the next decade aren't the ones with the best answers. They're the ones who know how to help others find them.

Read the full article: https://hubs.ly/Q04dK6YZ0

Most leadership behavior change does not fail because leaders lack motivation. It fails because the coaching lacks struc...
27/04/2026

Most leadership behavior change does not fail because leaders lack motivation. It fails because the coaching lacks structure.

Under pressure, the brain defaults to familiar patterns. Leaders revert. The gains disappear. And the organization is left wondering why the investment did not produce lasting results.

This is not a people problem. It is a methodology problem.

The AIIR Method was built to solve it. Assessment, Insight, Implementation, and Reinforcement -- four phases grounded in decades of behavioral science research, designed to produce change that holds even when the pressure is highest.

Across 714 coaching engagements, 94% of leaders applied what they learned to their work and 93% made meaningful progress against their development goals.

Structure produces outcomes. Read the whitepaper to see how: https://hubs.ly/Q04dywCT0

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