I’d like to tell you about a change of ownership that we are working on here at Cultivating Leadership and talk about what it means to us-and perhaps even to you. As of next month, the four of us who started Cultivating Leadership won’t own it anymore. Some of you…

On some winter mornings, the sun glints off every frosted blade of grass, turning the whole property into a glittering jewel box. On some mornings, the mist gets trapped here by the river, and I can’t even see the beautiful ancient cedars at the end of the driveway. …

People have been asking how this new life is going, this dream made manifest in some ways. Dreams don’t step into the real world without alteration-what we have here is life, a bunch of lives, really. …

The toddler squirmed in his mother’s arms. “No, no, no, noooooo!” he said, putting his newfound vocabulary to work. My friend-his mom-was a vision of calm, offering him this or that, coaxing him out of her arms so she could eat her soup to stave off the damp London chill…

The days crawl but the years fly. Someone told me this as I was cradling newborn Naomi, bleary from lack of sleep and overwhelmed with what it meant to bring a human being into the world. It’s not so different with a new business-the early days of wondering how one…

By Jennifer Garvey Berger — Sitting over a glass of wine or a cup of tea with some dear friends after a fantastic meal/ weekend/ holiday together, so many of us have had that conversation that goes: “Someday we should just buy a big house together (in upstate New York/ Tuscany/ the Blue Mountains/ Bali)…

I am typing these words on an airplane (!) at the end of my first overseas trip since March 2020. We have had three weeks in the US visiting family we have not seen in far too long. We have hugged and laughed and cried together. …

I have not felt very creative this pandemic season. Not writing much, not coming up with new ideas or new frameworks. Blinking into the world, locked down in my London flat. It wasn’t until a conversation with some lovely companions last week that I discovered one of the places my…

Some of you will know that I’m now on the quest for the next book project. One idea I keep returning to is this one: We know that there are ways we humans are not well wired for complexity (see Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps and other books like that). I’ve spent…