Ideas Library

Written during the rise of “quiet quitting,” Ashley Behnke explores what the debate revealed about burnout, boundaries, management, equity and our changing relationship with work.

What happens after we imagine a different future for ourselves? Jill Barrett explores how attention, experimentation and repeated practice can help turn new possibilities into lasting patterns of thought and behavior.

What helps us navigate periods of profound change? Jill Barrett explores three practices for meeting uncertainty with greater agency, curiosity and honesty.

Emotional intelligence begins with what happens inside us. Through one leader’s coaching journey, Jill Barrett explores four practices for moving from emotional reactivity toward greater awareness, choice and presence.

How do the stories we tell about ourselves shape what becomes possible? Jill Barrett explores narrative, imagination and creative tension as tools for seeing and acting differently.

What changes when movement becomes more than exercise? Bridget Rudy reflects on movement as a way to connect with ourselves, with others and with the natural world.

What happens inside us before a difficult conversation often shapes what becomes possible within it. Jill Barrett explores three practices for bringing greater awareness, responsibility and curiosity to challenging relationships.

What does imagination have to do with meaningful change? Jill Barrett explores neuroscience, insight and the role visioning can play in helping us see and move toward new possibilities.

What makes an innovative team exceptional? Jeremy Spaulding reflects on an award-winning innovation lab and how trust, psychological safety and collaboration created a culture where ideas flourished.

What does it take to defy a story that has constrained who we believe we can be? Jill Barrett explores “worthy defiance,” an embodied practice for confronting limiting cultural narratives from a grounded sense of our own value.

What if development begins not by adding something new, but by releasing what no longer serves us? Jill Barrett reflects on the Enneagram, personality, essential nature and what it means to fall safely into growth.

A period of unexpected stillness in Owosso, Michigan, gives Jill Barrett space to reflect on family, nature, well-being and the possibilities in which we choose to dwell.