by Katharine | Feb 8, 2023 | Blog
I recently attended the funeral of a man who had been a supervisor in a large company. The service was Quaker, so attendees were invited to speak if we chose to. One of the few Black people in the mostly White crowd soon stood from the table of work colleagues. He...
by Katharine | Feb 3, 2023 | Blog
I’ve thinking a lot lately about joy. I wrote an article this week about protecting yourself from leadership fatigue, and since then have heard from so many of you who are struggling—trying to support your teams through uncertainty, upheaval, and tragedy. It’s a...
by Katharine | Jan 31, 2023 | Blog
I wrote this week in Fast Company about something I’m hearing a lot about lately–leadership fatigue. Leading through this era of upheaval and strife hasn’t been easy. We’ve had to acknowledge hardship without signaling despair, model...
by Katharine | Jan 30, 2023 | Blog
My latest article for Fast Company is on trauma-informed leadership–both why it matters and how to do it well. The last few years have been difficult for so many, and those challenges people are facing don’t vanish when they log on in the morning. They...
by Katharine | Nov 17, 2022 | Blog
We’re about a week away from Thanksgiving here in the United States, and while that can be wonderful and exciting, for some of us we can feel a sense of dread as we know we’ll have to come into contact with family members who push our buttons. I recorded a...