You know that feeling when you nail a project or presentation? Or when you land a big deal? Or when someone tells you how great a job you did or how much they love working with you? You know that feeling when you see the impact of your work on…

For decades, we’ve done engagement surveys. We’ve done leadership 360s. We’ve done focus groups, stay interviews, and exit interviews. We do it to learn about leaders and the culture. We learn about what makes them great. We find some opportunities for improvement. We learn what we are told. But there’s…

We have all had experiences and moments of feeling small, trapped in a metaphorical shell or cage. I sometimes ask people, “Have you had a memorable lobster moment in your life?” They often do, and it’s usually, “Yeah. We ate it. It was delicious.” I can relate. I lean vegetarian, but I still love a lobster. The question does have a deeper purpose, though. I have a…

The Great Re-evaluation is here, and people are not only questioning their jobs and employers, but they are stepping back and asking themselves what really matters. What do I want my life to look like? How do I want to work? How do I want to allocate my time? …

Does your organization have an ethical leadership problem? Here are the warning signs and what to do about them. In 2008, I had just left Morgan Stanley and started at IBM. I was a leadership and organizational development consultant working on topics around improving company culture including trust, values, and ethical leadership. We were only a few years past the fall of Enron, and right in the middle of…

Work as we knew it has been turned upside down. The tides of change were already in motion before the pandemic. People were asking for more involvement in how they worked and when they worked. They were asking for their ideas and their needs to be seen and heard. They…

We are embarking on a new era of work. The organizations that get this right will thrive. The ones that don’t change? Well, we know how that story goes. A lot has been written about how to create a revised version of our work lives post-pandemic. But why would we…

“The Great Resignation” Actually Began Decades Ago. Are We Ready to See Why? People have been leaving jobs for decades. They have been in search of the same thing. Remember when people were jumping from one job to the next during the dot-com craze? Remember when we, as recruiters and…

After years of leading talent and leadership development functions in corporations, Emily started AROSE GROUP to combine her passion for developing people and innovative talent solutions with her love of healing and transforming people’s lives. AROSE provides people and organizations with a Guide, a custom pathway, and the steps and supports needed to activate meaningful change. We make the impossible possible.