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Lead Self Before Leading Others: A Life Planning Resource

I am very please to announce the publication of Lead Self First Before Leading Others: A Life Planning Resource. In it, Stephen K Hacker and myself explore the concept that, at the core of exceptional leadership, is the ability to lead self. “Be it for good or evil, conscious is powerful. This book makes plain, the case for enhanced self awareness, provides case studies and research support, presents the voices of several master leadership coaches, and most importantly….leads the reader the life planning process.” You can find the book on Business Expert Press or Amazon....

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Mission Statements Matter

Listen to Marvin’s recent interview on Spark on CBC Radio. According to Marvin, “With corporate culture under scrutiny, mission statements actually matter.”

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Marvin talks Leading Change on podcast Inspiring Change

You can listen to Marvin’s interview on Inspiring Change with host Terry Lipovski. Click on the red arrow. Or find it on one of the following sites: ITunes https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/inspiring-leaders-leadership-stories-with-impact/id1230225151?mt=2 Ubiquity UbiquityLeadership.com/Podcast SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/user-540339219 Stitcher http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=143346 TuneIn https://tunein.com/embed/player/p1039481/ Google...

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What Brings You Joy? Let’s Find Out.

What gives you joy? I mean truly gives you joy? First, notice I didn’t say what makes you happy. Happy is such a temporal feeling. True, we are designed to experience happiness, but we are also designed to experience sadness. Happiness tends to be initiated by an outside feeling, something makes you happy. Joy is triggered by an internal understanding of who you are and what you are feeling in the moment. Back to joy. If you are like most people, this is a difficult question to answer. Oh sure, we have imagined joy. We say things like I would love it if I could retire at 50, or spend hours...

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Having a hard time sleeping at night?

I know it’s been a while since my last blog. First, the good reasons why. So far in 2017, I have had a paper published, researched and written with my great friend and mentor Stephen Hacker, that nicely describes our approach to leadership training and development. Based upon work we did partnering with University of Alberta’s Executive Education, we summarized our approach to working with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and senior leaders at Alberta Health Services. Read the article here. In addition, I had a wonderful opportunity to be the instructor that gave this year’s University of...

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Marvin’s recent presentation at Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation

Read a summary about Marvin’s recent presentation to the Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation.  

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