Insights for HR and L&D Leaders

Join us for a conversation focused on women in leadership. We will be joined by Christine Wenger, National Manager, Enterprise Change Management at Toyota Financial Services. Christine will share from her 10+ years of experience at the world's most profitable mobility...

If you’re looking to start an in-house yoga program, but are worried about the quality of teachers you’ve been able to source at various locations, look no further. This month’s webcast helps you to scale a yoga program to help employees improve their health and...

What’s your deepest nature? The Practice: Be home. Why? Throughout history, people have wondered about human nature. Deep down, are we basically good or bad? When the body is not disturbed by hunger, thirst, pain, or illness, and when the mind is not disturbed by threat,...

Are you holding onto feeling wronged? The Practice: Forgive. Why? Forgiveness is a tricky topic. First, it has two distinct meanings: To give up resentment or anger To pardon an offense; to stop seeking punishment or recompense Here, I am going to focus on the first...

Busy, busy? The Practice: Rest. Why? This practice is definitely a case of teaching what you need to learn: I’ve been working through a big bucket of tasks lately with little chance to rest. (I console myself with knowing that the bucket is emptying a lot faster than it’s...

Keeping with tradition, each year I offer a list of Twelve Good Things. I’ve paired each good thing with a fundamental inner strength: Learning, Mindfulness, Love, Resilience, Contentment, Integrity, Self-Worth, Courage, Social Intelligence, Motivation, Wisdom, and Peace....

Key Facts About Your Brain: Shaped by evolution, especially of emotional and relational capacities; for example, the bigger the primate social group, the bigger the brain 3 pounds, 1.1 trillion cells, including 100 billion “gray matter” neurons Always “on” – 2% of the...

“The education of attention would be an education par excellence.“ —William James We hear the word “mindful” more and more these days, but what does it actually mean? Being mindful simply means having good control over your attention: you can place your attention wherever...

This week we will continue from last week’s introduction in the From Shame to Self-Worth series by gaining an understanding of the evolution of shame. [As we go through this somewhat intellectual material, try to make it real for yourself by relating it to your own everyday...