Irene Salter, PhD

Your team comes back from the offsite fired up with new learnings and connections. Three weeks later, nothing has changed. That's not a motivation problem, and it's not on them. New behaviors learned somewhere else stay tied to that somewhere else, which is precisely why they don't survive contact with the office. I studied habits for my PhD and I still lost an entire year of hard-won change within nine months of coming home from my big year of travel. Here's the science of why, and what...

Have you ever had a moment where your mouth said one thing and your gut screamed another? A few months ago, I was wrapping up a beautiful sample session with a potential new client. Everything was flowing. And then, when it came time to share my rates, out came the old ones. The ones I'd promised myself I'd retired. What followed was a spiral — shame, justification, bargaining, and a lot of internal name-calling. And underneath all of it, one quiet question I didn't want to look at: What am I...

For me—and for many servant leaders I know—the very idea of power can feel loaded, even dirty. We skirt around its edges without directly confronting it. As soon as we have power, we give it away. So let’s have an open, honest conversation about it. STORY: Welcome to Part 2 of musings about power! Perhaps you’ve already read Part 1 which discusses external abusive power like what you see in a toxic work environment. In contrast, this post is about internal abusive power… my own. READ MORE: ...