A Call for Conscious Leaders

Subscribe to Real Leaders Learn to connect your soul with your role. The achievements, consumer evolution, and commercial productivity of our industrial world are remarkable. Yet, this productivity has also yielded very real costs in the forms of alcoholism, domestic violence, suicide, drug abuse and addiction, depression, and ever-expanding economic inequality. Driving these costs is…

Empowering Remote Communities

Subscribe to Real Leaders A Mastercard leader founds a social impact business that drives change through technology. Nearly half of the world’s population lives on less than $5.50 a day, struggling to access basic needs like food, water, education, and health care services, according to the World Bank — and Tara Nathan is not OK…

Meat Reinvented

Subscribe to Real Leaders Ivy Farm Technologies is revolutionizing the way meat is created — and it’s a triple win. To help address today’s growing challenges in sustainable meat production, Ivy Farm Technologies is on a mission to become the United Kingdom’s leading producer of cultivated meat. Founded in 2019, the company uses novel biotechnology…

How to Get Unstuck

Subscribe to Real Leaders Harness momentum like an elite athlete and tap it to achieve your long-term goals. Everyone gets stuck at times. Athletes call it getting in a slump. If you’re in business, it could be a plateau in sales. Or in a relationship, it could feel like a rut. Regardless of the context,…

Sounds that Save

Subscribe to Real Leaders Eco-acoustics and artificial intelligence help stop harmful activity in rainforests. When people call to mind the sounds of rainforests, they likely drum up ideas of peaceful rains, gently rustling leaves, and a chorus of vibrant wildlife. But there are also disturbing sounds that are not often heard or thought of —…

Revamping the Return to Office

Subscribe to Real Leaders Avoid the clash over mandates and successfully bring employees back to their desks. For many companies, strict return-to-office mandates aren’t working, resulting in resistance and even walkouts. We expected the return to the workplace to feel positive, a signal that we were back to normal times. However, mandates that include enticements,…

5 Steps to Become a Top 1% Leader

Subscribe to Real Leaders Here’s how I’ve successfully led teams all the way to 300+. You’ll be amazed at how simple it actually is if you follow these fundamentals. 1. Set a vision You don’t need to be Steve Jobs, but you need a vision to lead. Start small — three years is fine. Create…

Try Leading with This Superpower

Subscribe to Real Leaders Form deeper emotional bonds with your team to create a more inspired, kinder workplace Some leaders like to think that showing no emotion is what makes them successful. They strive to keep emotions and even intuition out of the workplace, and they face societal pressure to appear strong rather than vulnerable…

Managing Money with Digital Gaming

Subscribe to Real Leaders A forward-thinking couple’s foundation employs video gaming and digital storytelling to break through to people from all walks of life with money-savvy lessons It was unsurprising that on their first date they talked about business strategies. After all, both Will and Cary Singleton grew up in households where their families ran…