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Early in my career, I believed success was primarily a function of strategy. Think two steps ahead. Work harder. Get visible. Then life served me a different lesson. When I immigrated to the United States from Kenya, I arrived bearing ambition, determination, and an unwavering belief that good decisions naturally produce good outcomes. What I [...]
Most executives believe they are scaling strategy. In reality, they are scaling operational assumptions. And assumptions fail far faster across borders than business models do. As an Improvement Scientist and Systems Transformation Advisor, I have learned that growth failures are rarely caused by poor strategic thinking. More often, they occur because organizations unknowingly scale the [...]
For years, risk in entrepreneurship has been romanticized as a function of personality. We celebrate the bold founder.The fearless executive.The visionary willing to “bet on themselves.” In leadership culture, risk tolerance is often framed as courage, confidence, or ambition. Those who move aggressively are rewarded with language associated with innovation and decisiveness. Those who move [...]
Women are doing exactly what they have been told will lead to advancement and still not advancing at equitable rates. This contradiction sits at the center of Start With Yourself: women are being told to take up space, claim power, and act decisively and many are doing exactly that without seeing proportional returns. In the [...]
In this second entry of The Leadership Ledger, we look at the balance sheet. It is precise. Structured. Unforgiving.It forces a simple but consequential question: What do you truly own and what do you owe? But what if the most important balance sheet you carry is not financial?What if your leadership, your organization, and your [...]
In this opening article of The Leadership Ledger, we look at the Profit and Loss statement. There is a quiet danger in leadership that rarely announces itself in crisis. It hides instead in success, in clean reports, upward trends, and reassuring margins. It is the danger of believing your profit and loss statement tells you [...]
I joined a couple of my nurse informaticist friends for brunch over the weekend, and our conversation naturally turned to healthcare AI. The discussion prompted me to reflect on what is often described as the “safety vs. velocity” paradox in implementing AI in healthcare. In my professional opinion, this tension only exists if speed and [...]
There are moments in life that refuse to be reduced to mere memory. They insist on becoming markers, quiet inflection points that recalibrate how you see yourself, your work, and your responsibility to the world. I was recently invited into one such moment: an intimate women’s circle dinner. The kind of space where conversation is [...]
I love it when my interests intersect and more so when I need to pull-on my Improvement Scientist hat to research a gap! For centuries, the global alcohol industry has relied on a simple biological assumption: the human palate is stable enough to sustain a culture of flavor. The recognizable tannins of a Cabernet Sauvignon, [...]
Yesterday I spent the day in St. Helena at the Annual Global Wine Conversations hosted by G3 at The Culinary Institute of America, Greystone. It was, by every measure, a remarkable gathering. Conversations were rich, the company generous, and the intellectual spirit of the room unmistakable. We spent part of the day blind tasting wines, [...]