Unfolding Leadership

On Redemption

As a helper to people navigating their lives at work, I want to bring the very best of myself to every exchange. Yet there are times when the best of myself would never be enough. The solutions to the deep challenges that people face follow no special formula; for example, the linked, uphill struggles to […]

December 30, 2017 – 6:30 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Angels, Choices, Healing, Openness, Trust | Comments (4) and Social Share

How to Talk to Each Other About Each Other

Over the years, working with both individuals and teams, the challenge recreates itself again and again: we fail to talk to each other about each other. We’d rather handle whatever difficulties we face in our relationships at work in almost any other way. “Separate the problem from the people,” says the guru, yet I’m here […]

September 18, 2017 – 8:08 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Choices, Conflict, Listening, Openness, Trust | Comments (8) and Social Share

Moving Toward Wholeness

Not long ago my friend, Ed Batista tweeted that he felt inspired by how I had connected leadership to psychological wholeness in a recent post. That was very kind, and it also planted a seed. I’ve written before about what I think wholeness is for leaders, but looking back to that 2011 post, I was […]

June 29, 2017 – 4:14 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Consciousness, Fate and Destiny, Radiance, Self-Knowledge, Shadow, Wounds | Comments (4) and Social Share

On My Images of Nature

Since I began this weblog in 2004, I have occasionally been asked why I include images of nature with many of my posts. How, for example, do pictures of the sea relate to a post on fairness or ones of a river connect with writing on self-worth? Not every post has photographs of nature, but […]