“I define empathy as the ability to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes and to understand and connect with what they are feeling - to feel what they’re feeling. You first have to understand the world as they see it through their eyes.”

Good listeners listen to what people say, and great listeners notice what people don’t say. When you know the neuroscience of listening, you realize that people can think up to nine times faster than they can speak. So the first thing they say is probably between ten and fourteen percent of what they are thinking.

"Confidence doesn't come from something external to you, it comes from the inside."

“Really going into purpose work, that takes courage. Leadership is courageous. Leadership – real leadership, authentic, purpose-focused leadership – is not for wimps. It takes courage. You will have to stand up. You will have to face the dragon.”

“Our stories can lift us up or they can hold us down. We are responsible for that. We live in a story, and that means we can change it.”

"We've always gone to the wilderness and sought perspective in the less familiar places."

“If there is a purpose to this life, I would say it’s to evolve ourselves....”

Mindfulness is basically focus - that I can focus on what I choose to focus on and not everything else. And focus is so powerful in business. Our ability to focus on what we want, to me, does create business results. So, I see it to be totally compatible with business.

“The power of the team is so, so much greater than any one individual.”

“The best idea in the world will die without the storytelling that brings it to life.”

"Leadership requires you to weigh-in and weigh-over the consequences of the decision either way and how that decision affects individuals."

“You win or you learn and if you’re always winning you’re not really learning.”