Strategic planning doesn’t begin with a three-day retreat or a glossy 60-page deck. It begins when you, as a leader, decide to pause, ask better questions, and invite your people into the conversation. When strategy is grounded in what you already know, tested against real data and real voices, and captured in a living document, it becomes one of your most powerful leadership practices instead of another task on the calendar.

With a few simple shifts, they can become one of the most powerful leadership tools you have to engage and align your organization.

When we break bread together, there is a generosity of spirit present. In organizations that are contracting in conflict, pain, misunderstandings - we as practitioners want to create the conditions for generosity of spirit, and food is such a good way to do that. Leaders who create those conditions by bringing pizza or donuts to work, who offer lunch or even a birthday cake - they  display that generosity of spirit, and they model it through these simple actions and offerings