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The Missing Piece: Leader Activation Drives Transformation
The Missing Piece: Leader Activation Drives Transformation Written by: Julie Williamson, PhD Estimated reading time: 3:12 minutes Too many leaders...

Change How You Lead To Avoid A Transformation Failure
We’ve all seen the stats on transformation failures, the lists of why they don’t work and the colossal case studies of Kodak, Blockbuster and others...

Don’t Lead Towards A Strategy – Lead Through It
Reframe the purpose of strategy work – lead through your strategy and immediately start to use it as the lens through which you make leadership...

Leading through challenge: Know where you are on the KARRIKINS Challenge Curve™
The KARRIKINS Challenge Curve™ shows the common stages of leading through challenge or a crisis in an organization. The energy leaders bring into...

Evaluating your strategy: Is it ambitious enough? [Article]
Setting and executing on an ambitious strategy that drives transformation is crucial in today’s business environment. Your strategy must be bold...

Minding the (Failure) Gap [Whitepaper + PDF]
Executives are charged with meeting a dizzying array of expectations, including delivering on quarterly financials, investing in long-term growth...

5 Ways to Help Leaders Align: Actionable Steps to Move Leaders to Alignment During Transformation [Article]
We’ve all seen the grim statistics – major organizational transformations often fail to return as expected to the business.

Intentional Optimism Dispositions Self-Scan
The KARRIKINS IO Dispositions Model™ explores how leaders show up. Take a brief self-scan to discover what your disposition might be and the impact...

5 Ways To Create Purposeful Conversations at Work [Article]
Choose to create or intentionally show up to a Purposeful Conversation. Karrikins Group shares 5 ways to create the conditions for Purposeful...

Julie v Tree: A prologue to Intentional Optimism [Book preview]
The crash was not awesome. It hurt, my gear was totaled, and I had to hike off the mountain – the ultimate walk of shame for a snowboarder. I was...

Strategy is not a side hustle [Article]
Strategy is a vital and integral part of senior leadership. Approaching strategy as an annual chore is a legacy way of thinking about the whole idea...

OPT-IN: Building Optimism into Your Leadership [Whitepaper + PDF]
For years we have bought into the notion that a burning platform is required to provoke change in organizations. This theory is based on a belief...

What the kitchen sink can teach us about alignment: 4 common tradeoffs holding leaders back
Leaders can’t stop at agreement. Four common tradeoffs that hold leaders back from aligning.

Purpose-Aligned Leadership: From Purpose Driven to Driving Purpose [Whitepaper]
This whitepaper is designed to support courageous leaders, purpose-aligned leaders, in bringing purpose to life inside their companies.

It’s Up to Them: Why Leaders Must Do The Hard Work of Alignment
In our experience partnering with senior leaders to drive transformation, we’ve learned that one of the biggest challenges to change comes up when...

Being a Rockstar Co-Creator: 3 Ways to Be Indispensable in Co-Creation Sessions [Article]
At Karrikins Group, co-creation means we work together to create the space for you to have quality conversations with each other about how you want...

Missed Connections: 7 Ways to Build Better Connections for Your Career
Are you looking for ways to build better connections as an Aligned Leader? Most leadership development programs these days talk about the importance...

Breaking up is hard to do: Why deselection is difficult despite increasing capacity demands
Deselection is difficult, but it helps organizations stay on track through the challenges around organizational capacity.

6 Strategies For Unleashing A Culture Of Innovation In A Changing Retail Landscape on YPO
6 Strategies For Unleashing A Culture Of Innovation In A Changing Retail Landscape on YPO [Article] Written by: Julie Williamson, PhD The retail...
Exceptional Results Come from Alignment
Alignment is a solvable problem for those willing to do the work, and the challenge of alignment shouldn’t hold you or your team back. Schedule a 30-minute conversation to learn how alignment can result in a greater impact for you & your team.