Author: Kelly McDermott

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LEADERSHIP IS THE ULTIMATE CONTACT SPORT

Leadership is a privilege, responsibility, gift and call that each person can embrace or run from.  Every time you accept the opportunity to lead you are touching the lives of

EVERY MEETING IS AN INTERVIEW AND AN EVALUATION

Every time you meet someone you make an impression.  Others judge us by what we say, what we do, how we look, how we engage others and how we make

WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT FOR EXECUTIVES….STRATEGY, CAPITAL OR TALENT?

What is more important at the executive level….strategy, capital or talent? Talent.  Without talent a strategy won’t work and without talent capital will not be managed well.  As a result

ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE

Impossible is just a big word tossed around by small men and women who find it easier to keep status quo in a world they have been given rather than

NOTHING HAPPENS UNTIL YOU MOVE

Start small, dream BIG and begin today. Nothing happens until you take action. A string of the right actions gets results.  The sad reality is that procrastination is nothing more

POWER OF BELIEF

From our experience, the culture of an organization is really the behaviors and traits of the senior leaders. We have never had to do a detailed or lengthy assessment to

THE JOB OF A LEADER IS TO GROW MORE LEADERS

May I be blunt: if you’re not building more leaders, then you’re not leading, you’re following. Your job (regardless of whether or not you have a title) is to help

EXECUTIVE COACHING: WHAT TO EXPECT

Coaching Navigating transformational change has resulted in a business-coaching phenomenon that is receiving a great deal of interest for the power and impact it has to create and enhance performance.

LEAVING A LEGACY

The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object that can be seen from space with the naked eye and it took 1,771 years to build; it was started

THE NECESSITY OF VISION

Visioning is taking ideas and convictions and envisioning how you will make them become reality. There is a basic formula that I learned from the author, Andy Stanley, for the