Share your wisdom & experience.

I’m writing a book about building organizations worthy of the human spirit—places where people are recognized as inherently worthy while being held to high standards of excellence.

Are you willing to share your story to help strengthen other leaders, so they can learn from your hard-earned wisdom? We can make each other better! And in doing so, make our organizations stronger, more joyful, and more human-centered.

First, what do I mean by recognizing someone as inherently worthy?

Every person is worthy simply because they are human. Our worth is not earned through achievement, diminished by mistakes, or ranked against someone else’s. Our work can fall short; our worth does not.

Believing that is one thing. Living it as a leader, especially when someone isn’t meeting expectations, is another. The most valuable leadership wisdom comes from experience—from the conversations we’ve navigated, the practices we’ve developed, the mistakes we’ve made, and the people who have challenged us to grow.

Your experience matters, and it could make a real difference for someone else. A lesson you’ve learned might help another leader approach a difficult situation with greater wisdom, recognize someone’s potential, or create a workplace where people feel genuinely valued while doing excellent work.

So what exactly am I asking for?

I am asking how you, as a leader, honor the worth of the individuals in your organization. What systems and models do you use to center the innate worth of your team and employees? And how do you hold that together with high standards? Do these conflict, or do you find that one supports the other?

It might be a difficult conversation that strengthened a relationship, a decision that required both compassion and accountability, or a practice or system that helped people feel genuinely valued while doing excellent work. It might be something as simple as how you run meetings, greet people in the morning, deal with conflict, or offer coaching and feedback.

Maybe you got it right. Maybe you didn’t—and you learned something important along the way. Both kinds of stories belong in this conversation.

I know your time is precious. Your story doesn’t need to be polished, and it only takes a few minutes. A few paragraphs are plenty.

Some stories may be included in my book, Worthy Communities: Building Organizations Worthy of the Human Spirit. If yours is a fit, I’ll contact you, share the proposed excerpt, and discuss how you’d like to be credited. Nothing will be published without your approval.