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Leadership is all about relationships. Most leaders focus on learning tools, tactics, and strategies in how to lead, speak to, and manage their direct report...

Exponentially Increase Your ROI on Development Today’s corporate and non-profit leaders must set strategy, sustain their performance, learn to read clues in ...

Business carries a tacit, maybe even explicit, rule that emotions and emotional expression are not okay. People who “get emotional” are seen as weak, defecti...

You React We’ve all done it. You know, those times in the heat of the moment when you react badly? Maybe you make a snide comment, or blow up, yell and blame...

I, Susan, am a golfer. In Montana, that means I get to golf from April (if the snow is gone) to late September. However, I was so busy this past April throug...

​ Many people are somewhat surprised to learn that I, CrisMarie, competed at the Olympics. I’m not an especially “outdoorsy” person and I don’t have an inten...

In our first book, The Beauty of Conflict: Harnessing the Competitive Advantage of Your Team, we dive deep into workplace conflict. We discuss the many diffe...

A new client emailed us to describe a common, relatable situation. “I manage a team of smart, wonderful people,” she explained, quickly adding, “They’re all ...

For your team or business, do you ever say: “I feel like our team is always dealing with tactical issues or fire-fighting.” “Our weekly team meetings are pri...

​​​​​​​We believe listening is a very unrated asset and is critical to dealing with differences, getting beyond our own bias and getting to creativity. We ...

Often when we introduce our belief that conflict is a critical ingredient to team success and innovation, the first comment we get is, “Yes, as long as it is...

Teamwork isn’t rocket science and that is what makes it so challenging! Teamwork is not based on your smarts, but your ability to continually be real, vulner...

Often when we are starting with a team, one of the concerns is that people just aren’t speaking up and having the rich debate and dialogue needed to get to c...

After I got my MBA in 1996 and started working as a business consultant for Arthur Andersen, I adopted the prevailing wisdom that I needed to be strictly pro...

We have been developing and delivering leadership development programs for the last fifteen years. More recently, we’ve worked several organizations to devel...

If you’ve been following my posts, Susan, you know I have been incredibly engaged in my Equus Coaching work. People often ask me - why horses? Have you alway...

Recently, I was In Scottsdale, AZ, for eight days of Master Facilitator Equus Training with the Koelle Equus Institute. Many of you know, in 2015 I complete...

Have you ever been through a leadership change and found yourself thinking: I can’t work here. This new guy is taking us in the wrong direction. The new lead...

This upcoming weekend CrisMarie will be inducted into The University of Washington Hall of Fame in Seattle with her teammates from two collegiate women’s 8+ ...

Now more than ever we need to talk. Not set up more laws or bring people before judges.Our society is polarized to the point of breaking. Yet, a thin thread ...