“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.

“Great storytellers find stories everywhere. And what I mean by that is they can take the simplest things and turn them into powerful and effective stories to teach key principles. So, here’s a story about how somebody changed the world. Now I want you to change the world. It can be just a simple day-to-day change that can lead to a change in behavior that you really want.”

“Most organizations are still using some form of the old hierarchical structure that they had in the 60s and 70s.”

"Momentum is not merely tactical. It is strategic because it builds its own dynamic propulsion."

“Gratitude connects people very quickly, easily and authentically.”

“You cannot succeed without failure; that’s a given. Let’s be honest, unless you’ve never tried entrepreneurship then you know that to succeed you have to do a lot of trial and error. And, if you’re an entrepreneur, the bigger and the crazier your goal, and the vision, and the dream is, the more you have to be outside your comfort zone.”

“The most important word in every sentence is the last word of that sentence.”

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

“Most business leaders are undervaluing the intangibles of their business.”

“I think there’s that authenticity of integrating all dimensions of our life experience and being able to commit to truly being that authentic whole person in all moments.”

“When we have that humble confidence, it opens up all sorts of possibilities within our team, because it gives us the opportunity where we can tap into the expertise of those around us and get their input so that we can figure out the answers to the challenges that we face.”