If you didn’t think emotional and social intelligence were important before, you would have had no doubt by the time you left ICF Minnesota’s professional development event.

“We have a strategic plan, that’s not the problem.” However, my experience tells me otherwise.

Organizations, like the human body, also redirect pain away from the underlying source. When people learn I do strategic planning with organizations, the most common response often sounds something like this, “We’ve spent a lot of time and money on strategic planning and nothing changes when it is over.”

Neuroscience is a 50-year-old discipline but has only been in the public mind from the leadership and coaching perspective for about seven years.

As I reflect upon my learning, listening and observations from the last three days, five important themes emerged.

INspiring SIGHT, the name of my business was chosen because my work at its core is about helping others cultivate insight, new perspectives, creativity and possibilities--INspiring SIGHT was chosen based upon my very intimate relationship with its creation.

Generational conflicts have been fairly predictable and taking place for as far back as we can remember. The pendulum swings between the generation having children and their children as they became of age.