“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."

“There’s a time to lead from the front, and a time to lead from behind, and a time to lead by the side. And, I found that was a bit of a different model for me. I wanted to always lead from the front.”

“Purpose is a fusion between the pursuance of our curiosities, or our passions, and the living of the exploration of those things at the same time. You really can’t intellectualize purpose. You actually have to feel and behave your way in and through it.”

“Creating new futures begins with creating a new conversation.”

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

“Where there is curiosity, the adult in the child and the child in the adult are awaken. This is how innovation happens.”

“People who have some sense of connectedness to something bigger than themselves are grateful.”

“I would really hate it if I wasn’t a possibilities thinker.”

“Executive presence is demonstrated in the qualities of a leader that engage, align, inspire, and move people to act.”

“The reality is, we are all interconnected and there’s a broader perspective that a lot of people don’t have on how my actions and the actions of our community then affect the actions of our state, which affect the actions of our country.”