Effective leadership requires deep self-awareness and psychological understanding, not just strategic skills and technical knowledge. We can, and should, better prepare prospective leaders for their exceptional responsibilities by educating them to be psychodynamically minded—capable of introspection and self-reflection, attuned to unconscious as well as conscious feelings and motivations, and able to recognize empathy and care for others as strengths.

My experiences on and after that day transformed and still inform the trajectory of my life and my career.

Why do enterprise leaders and institutional stakeholders reject expert help even when there’s clear need and benefit? Here’s what every leader needs to know.

A brief article on human decision-making and the RSA Security Conference 2020 on “The Human Element”

There's a different class of AI now. It doesn’t entertain, simplify, expedite, problem-solve, or do work for us in a conventional sense. Its purpose is to assess, monitor and manage aspects of human thought, emotion, and behavior. We’re outsourcing self-awareness, self-knowledge, and self-agency.

Choosing a replacement chief executive is among the most consequential decisions a company’s board may ever tackle.