Become a Certified Higher Ground Leader

Become a Certified Higher Ground Leader

If you would like to become Certified as a coach, consultant or facilitator of Lance Secretan’s renowned Higher Ground Leadership®, or just learn more about this deep and inspiring body of work, we have two new opportunities for you. NOTE: If you have previously...
Bromides are Not Enough – Actions Speak Louder Than Fluffy Words

Bromides are Not Enough – Actions Speak Louder Than Fluffy Words

When we emerge from the worst of Covid-19, we will judge companies, and patronise their firms (or not), based on how they behaved during these challenging times. I received an email today with a lot of fluffy bromides from the chairman of Canada’s largest employer...
The Responsibility to Use our Voices

The Responsibility to Use our Voices

For better or worse, as a result of the career I have chosen, I am blessed to have a voice, a platform, and an audience.  All of us, whether we have a voice and a platform or not, have a responsibility to speak up in these pivotal times, because we have a chance to...
Good Timber – from Inspiration in the Cloud

Good Timber – from Inspiration in the Cloud

During our “Inspiration in the Cloud”  Zoom video call today, I shared this poem with all of the participants who joined our weekly 30-minute inspiring conversation. The poem is starkly gender-insensitive, but, remember, he died before I was born!...
Why Performance Management Programs Fail

Why Performance Management Programs Fail

Every Performance Management system I have ever seen over the years has typically focused on one thing: employee productivity (aka performance).  In one case, I saw a program developed by a large international consulting firm for a global pharmaceutical company, and...
Who Are You Mentoring and Sponsoring?

Who Are You Mentoring and Sponsoring?

When I was 27, with my self-awareness and worldview vastly exaggerated in my own mind, I suddenly became the CEO of Manpower Limited. Possessing nothing but raw ambition, self-confidence and limited skills, I launched into my new role.   The reason I found myself...

The Employee is the New Customer!

Our understanding of the role of corporations has moved through a series of evolutions. It was generally accepted 50 years ago that the main purpose of a corporation was to increase shareholder wealth. Economist Milton Friedman cemented this thinking in our culture...
Never Give Up On Your Dream!

Never Give Up On Your Dream!

In the early 2000’s I conducted research to find out what characteristics were common among great leaders, both living and deceased. I learned that first and foremost, great leaders have a powerful connection to a higher purpose—the reason they are here on Earth—what...
New Release: The Bellwether Effect

New Release: The Bellwether Effect

I am excited to let you know that my latest book (#22!) is now available in all markets. Because I believe this message is so important for the world right now, I am making the Kindle version available of Amazon sites for US$0.99 until the end of June, 2018. I really...
I Have the Torch for the Moment!

I Have the Torch for the Moment!

Somebody asked me the other day how many hours I work each week.  I was taken aback.  First, I don’t work – I love what I do and I don’t consider it “work”.  I tend to meditate, rest, play and work with clients, blend it all together,...
ONEness – The Key to High Performance in Organizations

ONEness – The Key to High Performance in Organizations

Six thousand years ago we were one.  We shared the same stories, myths, mysteries and magic. Even peoples and tribes who had never communicated together due to their different physical locations, shared identical concepts, such as the notion of time being circular...
Be Yourself; Everyone Else is Already Taken

Be Yourself; Everyone Else is Already Taken

The new year is a time for resolutions, an opportunity for new beginnings. The title of this blog post is a quote  from Oscar Wilde.  It seem especially appropriate as we begin a new year.  This is the time of year when we usually set new targets for ourselves: ...