NEWS & IDEAS. THE BRIMSTONE BLOG.

Here’s How a Coaching Culture Can Strengthen Your Organization

Here’s How a Coaching Culture Can Strengthen Your Organization

executive coaching Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy
A coaching culture is one that supports innovation, sparks insights, and energizes employees. What's more, it increases performance and profitability.
Read More
Here’s what to think about When Creating a Forward-Looking ESG Strategy

Here’s what to think about When Creating a Forward-Looking ESG Strategy

ESG Leadership Strategy
When developing an ESG strategy, it is critical to align the strategy with your organization’s larger strategic goals and objectives.
Read More
How Executive Coaching Created New Possibilities and Perspective

How Executive Coaching Created New Possibilities and Perspective

Change executive coaching Leadership Strategy
How executive coaching created new possibilities and perspectives, leading to increased engagement and performance.
Read More
Executive Coaching is a Powerful Tool

Executive Coaching is a Powerful Tool

executive coaching Leadership Process
Executive coaching is a powerful tool to transform your leadership and your organization. Here are four reasons to consider executive coaching. 
Read More
Three Things Leaders Need to Know About ESG

Three Things Leaders Need to Know About ESG

ESG Leadership Strategy
An ESG strategy is a cornerstone to accelerating impact and financial growth goals. Here are 3 things leaders need to know about ESG.
Read More
Here’s Why Succession Planning Matters

Here’s Why Succession Planning Matters

Change communication executive coaching Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
Most organizations don't have a succession plan in place. Here are 5 reasons why succession planning matters.
Read More
Here’s why the Great Resignation requires Great Coaching

Here’s why the Great Resignation requires Great Coaching

Change executive coaching Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
“Being a leader is a privilege you have. Your job is about being able to help people realize their best potential. That’s what, in fact, is expected of you.” -Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
Read More
Sustainability Strategies Course

Sustainability Strategies Course

ESG Strategy
David Bennell’s LinkedIn Learning course, “Sustainability Strategies” has been highlighted as a way to improve sustainability skills.
Read More
New Regulations Place Sustainability and ESG at the Center of National and Global Business Competitiveness

New Regulations Place Sustainability and ESG at the Center of National and Global Business Competitiveness

ESG Strategy
Your strategy needs to consider current and future sustainability and ESG rules and regulations and market realities.
Read More
Thinking holistically about integrating ESG across the organization

Thinking holistically about integrating ESG across the organization

Change ESG Leadership Strategy
We partner with you and your team to help you develop and execute an ESG strategy that will deliver meaningful impact for the long-term. Here are examples of how we can help.
Read More
Brimstone Launches ESG Practice

Brimstone Launches ESG Practice

Change ESG Leadership Strategy
With the new ESG Practice, Brimstone offers a range of solutions that will enable organizations to build and execute an ESG strategy that will accelerate impact and financial growth goals.
Read More
How Actionable Strategy Helps Drive Results from Strategy Through Execution

How Actionable Strategy Helps Drive Results from Strategy Through Execution

Change communication Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
Actionable strategy gives organizations the framework and mindset necessary to accelerate momentum and drive results.
Read More
Three Ways to Energize Your Organization

Three Ways to Energize Your Organization

Alignment Change communication Leadership Strategy
An energized, engaged, committed, and insistent organization is remarkable, and possibly unstoppable. Here are three things you can do to energize your organization.
Read More
How Leaders Can Increase Employee Engagement and Energize Their Organization

How Leaders Can Increase Employee Engagement and Energize Their Organization

Change communication Leadership Process Strategy
Engaged employees perform better, experience less burnout, and stay in organizations longer. Here's how leaders can increase engagement and energize their organization.
Read More
If you think your top leaders know your strategic priorities, think again

If you think your top leaders know your strategic priorities, think again

Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy Uncategorized
Research shows most leadership teams are not aligned. Why does this matter? Organizational alignment is a catalyst for accelerated growth.
Read More
To be a great leader, do these two things

To be a great leader, do these two things

Change communication Leadership Strategy
Great leaders know that it’s important to learn to lead themselves before they lead others. They begin by understanding themselves.
Read More
How Business Acceleration Teams Can Help You Get Results – Fast

How Business Acceleration Teams Can Help You Get Results – Fast

Change Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
When faced with critical issues in their organization, a leader does not have the luxury of time. Business Acceleration Teams can drive results - quickly.
Read More
Most transformation initiatives fail. Here’s how to make yours successful.

Most transformation initiatives fail. Here’s how to make yours successful.

Change communication Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
74% of transformation initiatives fail. When organizations get people and alignment right, their transformation efforts are more likely to be successful.
Read More
Why new CEOs should use Strategy and Leadership Team Alignment

Why new CEOs should use Strategy and Leadership Team Alignment

Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy
Our process, Strategy Leadership Team Alignment, uses tactical planning and strategic thinking to align the leadership team around the organization's vision, and if necessary, their key strategic imperatives, critical issues, operational plans, and key leadership behaviors/values.
Read More
How to nurture your team to high-performance

How to nurture your team to high-performance

Change Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy
It is likely that your team (even if it is an established team) is in the forming stage. Here's how to nurture your team to high-performance.
Read More
KPIs and OKRs: Don’t let buzzwords get in the way of success

KPIs and OKRs: Don’t let buzzwords get in the way of success

Change communication Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
Don’t get bogged down in KPIs and OKRs. Instead, establish trust and gain alignment on a few key critical (and simple and measurable) goals. Here is where you will find success.
Read More
When it comes to strategy, aim for perfection, execute with precision

When it comes to strategy, aim for perfection, execute with precision

Change COVID-19 Leadership Strategy
Too often, I see leaders and their teams create strategies, and fail to execute them because they are focused on perfection, not precision.
Read More
Designing a hybrid workplace? Avoid this mistake.

Designing a hybrid workplace? Avoid this mistake.

Change communication Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
When designing a hybrid workplace, communication guidelines are critical to creating an effective and thriving workplace – skipping this step could lead to increased burnout and collaboration fatigue.
Read More
9 inspirational videos on leadership and change

9 inspirational videos on leadership and change

Change communication Leadership Strategy
The following 9 inspirational videos on leadership and change have been helpful for us and the leaders with whom we work.
Read More
8 New Leadership Books

8 New Leadership Books

Change communication Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
8 leadership books published in 2021 (and one in 2020). Each is timely, insightful, and one to consider adding to your reading list.
Read More
ZRG PARTNERS ACQUIRES BRIMSTONE

ZRG PARTNERS ACQUIRES BRIMSTONE

Change communication executive coaching Leadership Organizational Alignment Private Equity Process Strategy
ZRG Partners has announced its acquisition of Brimstone. ZRG’s acquisition of our organization is an exciting step forward for Brimstone.
Read More
Accelerate results in your first 90 days

Accelerate results in your first 90 days

Change communication COVID-19 executive coaching Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy
How a leader leads in their first 90 days can build a foundation for success or create a hole that will be difficult to climb out of.
Read More
The real reason people are quitting

The real reason people are quitting

Change COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
The real reason for “The Great Resignation” is that employees are fed up with not being listened to and not being valued.
Read More
Here’s why at least 7% of your organization should be involved in transformation initiatives

Here’s why at least 7% of your organization should be involved in transformation initiatives

Change Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy
How many people are needed to drive transformation? New research finds that 7% of the organization is the tipping point for better results.
Read More
Don’t Let Today’s New Hire Leave Tomorrow

Don’t Let Today’s New Hire Leave Tomorrow

Change COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
Vibrant companies are using this time of resignation and turnover to improve their talent, build stronger teams, and better results.
Read More
The Upside of the Great Resignation

The Upside of the Great Resignation

Change communication COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
The silver lining of the Great Resignation is an unprecedented opportunity to build a stronger organization – one poised to thrive
Read More
Beware of the meeting trap: how leaders should manage their time

Beware of the meeting trap: how leaders should manage their time

Change communication Leadership Process Strategy
Be intentional with your time. And beware of the meeting trap. Time is the scarcest..>
Read More
Just one Moment: Mindfulness for Busy Leaders

Just one Moment: Mindfulness for Busy Leaders

Change communication Leadership Strategy
Mindfulness can be an effective tool for leaders. Here's how leaders can bring mindfulness into their lives and into their work.
Read More
Report: The Future of the Best Place to Work

Report: The Future of the Best Place to Work

Change communication COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
The report outlines expectations for the future of work, and actions leaders can take to make their organization a “great place to work.”
Read More
How are organizations deciding where and how people work? CHROs share their strategies.

How are organizations deciding where and how people work? CHROs share their strategies.

Change COVID-19 Leadership Strategy
How are organizations deciding where and how people work? A group of CHROs share the strategies they have helped develop for their organizations.
Read More
Do you think culture and collaboration require an office? Think Again

Do you think culture and collaboration require an office? Think Again

Change communication COVID-19 Strategy
While there is the recognition that the great work-from-home experiment effective, there is also the belief that it hurt organizational culture and belonging and that it does not support collaboration and innovation. A growing body of research debunks these beliefs.
Read More
You really do need a vacation.

You really do need a vacation.

Change COVID-19 Leadership Strategy
Why taking a vacation and truly unplugging is so important - to you and to your organization.
Read More
How to build a mentorship program that actually works

How to build a mentorship program that actually works

Change Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy
Building a mentorship program? Here's what to consider so your mentoring program will be more likely to transform lives, careers, and the organization.
Read More
More effort doesn’t always yield better results

More effort doesn’t always yield better results

Change communication Leadership
In leadership and in life, more effort doesn't always yield better results. And often, when you do less, you enjoy what you do more.
Read More
Few organizations have communicated their plan for hybrid work. This is anxiety producing.

Few organizations have communicated their plan for hybrid work. This is anxiety producing.

Change communication COVID-19 Leadership Strategy
Only 1 in 10 executives say they have communicated what hybrid work will look like for their organization. Employees are feeling anxious.
Read More
10 inspirational videos on leadership

10 inspirational videos on leadership

Change communication Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
10 inspirational videos on leadership. Insights and knowledge that will help leaders to learn, grow, and lead.
Read More
Stress and decreased engagement are just two reasons we need to stop scheduling back-to-back meetings

Stress and decreased engagement are just two reasons we need to stop scheduling back-to-back meetings

Change communication COVID-19 Leadership Strategy
Back-to-back meetings need to stop. A new study shows they are causing fatigue and stress, and negatively impacting engagement and focus. 
Read More
Survey: The Future of the Best Place to Work

Survey: The Future of the Best Place to Work

Change COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
We have partnered with Entromy, an organizational assessment platform, to conduct a survey to learn about new expectations for organizations and the work environment.
Read More
The next six months will define you as a leader

The next six months will define you as a leader

Change COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
Now is the time to tackle the nascent issues that were accelerated by crises, to take advantage of new opportunities and new ways of thinking and working, and to focus on aligning and strengthening your organization. What you choose to do over these next six months and over the next year will define you as a leader.
Read More
Meditation is What You Do When You Meditate

Meditation is What You Do When You Meditate

Change COVID-19 Leadership Process
Meditation builds our capability to slow down, stop, and look deeply into our habitual patterns of thinking and action.
Read More
The Upside of the Burnout Crisis

The Upside of the Burnout Crisis

Change COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy
There is a silver lining to the burnout crisis. Leaders who recognize burnout as an organizational problem, take action to create an organizational solution, and make systemic changes will build a stronger organization - one poised to thrive.
Read More
Lead with Courage

Lead with Courage

Change communication Leadership Strategy
You have to commit to living and leading with moral courage. Because morality isn’t optional. And courage isn’t someone else’s job.
Read More
A Quiet(er) Mind

A Quiet(er) Mind

COVID-19 Leadership Strategy
Mindfulness practice can produce a quieter mind, one that is not pushed and pulled so relentlessly by our involuntary attention.  Even a few minutes of meditation or mindfulness practice daily allows the mind to rest a bit, leaving us refreshed and able to lead with more energy, clarity, and focus. 
Read More
Build Trust to Lead

Build Trust to Lead

Change communication COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
You either love someone or you don’t. And you either trust someone or you don’t. Building and sustaining trust is crucial to effective leadership.
Read More
“Return to work” makes no sense. Here’s why.

“Return to work” makes no sense. Here’s why.

Change COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
It's critical to frame the future as a return to the office, not a return to work. People have been working – a lot.
Read More
The Power of Mindfulness: Remember, Recenter, Re-engage

The Power of Mindfulness: Remember, Recenter, Re-engage

Change Leadership
When we can remember to be in the present moment, we can more and more quickly and without judgment recenter ourselves and re-engage with more peace and clarity.
Read More
Social connection is a leadership priority. Here’s why.

Social connection is a leadership priority. Here’s why.

communication COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
Social connection impacts trust, productivity, engagement, and job satisfaction, and anchors teams in times of complexity. Whether your team is in-person, remote, or both, fostering social connection is critical.
Read More
A Partner in Change and Transformation

A Partner in Change and Transformation

Change communication COVID-19 executive coaching Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy
This past year has been full of challenges, opportunities, and transformation. The year has demonstrated our team's resilience and has enabled us to partner with clients in new ways.
Read More
Mindfulness in the midst of a busy day: becoming aware of first responses

Mindfulness in the midst of a busy day: becoming aware of first responses

Change Leadership Strategy
How can a busy leader incorporate mindfulness into their day? Why should a leader practice mindfulness? What is the value of mindfulness?
Read More
Mastering the Hybrid Workplace

Mastering the Hybrid Workplace

Change communication COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment
Success in the next normal requires mastery of the hybrid workplace. It requires leaders to manage technology, discussion, and information.
Read More
Managing Career Transitions

Managing Career Transitions

Change executive coaching Leadership Process
Managing your career needs to be done on an ongoing basis. Those who consistently manage their career are more likely to achieve their professional and career goals than those who don’t.
Read More
The Power of Mindfulness

The Power of Mindfulness

communication Leadership Strategy
Mindfulness is a tool that can help place attention where it is most needed and then keep it there as long as required to reflect, plan, decide and act.
Read More
Zen and The Art of Diversity and Inclusion: Lessons Learned from the Appalachian Trail

Zen and The Art of Diversity and Inclusion: Lessons Learned from the Appalachian Trail

Change executive coaching Leadership women in leadership
In my work with corporate leaders on diversity and inclusion, I often think back to my experience (and lessons learned) hiking the Appalachian Trail.
Read More
11 Trends Shaping the Future of Work

11 Trends Shaping the Future of Work

Change COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
2021 (and beyond) will not be a return to the status quo. These 11 trends are shaping the future of work.
Read More
31 books on leadership and change

31 books on leadership and change

Change Leadership
Recent publications and books that have stood the test of time - 31 essential reads on leadership and change for your library.
Read More
How to build resilience when you are feeling tapped out

How to build resilience when you are feeling tapped out

COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
Feeling tapped out? Here's how to build your personal resilience so you can help cultivate your team's resilience.
Read More
How the racial reckoning of 2020 has cracked open my heart and hobbled my ego

How the racial reckoning of 2020 has cracked open my heart and hobbled my ego

Change executive coaching Leadership
“If we wait for perfection, we will never break the silence. The cycle of racism will continue uninterrupted.”
Read More
Lead to the future: leadership imperatives for success

Lead to the future: leadership imperatives for success

Change communication COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
To lead to the future, place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people.
Read More
To Lead, You Need to Listen

To Lead, You Need to Listen

communication Leadership
Great leaders ask questions and listen - to everyone. Our rule of thumb is one part talking, four parts listening. When you listen, you learn.
Read More
Patagonia’s ‘Vote the A**holes Out’ Tags Are a Story in Organizational Alignment

Patagonia’s ‘Vote the A**holes Out’ Tags Are a Story in Organizational Alignment

Change Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy Uncategorized
How did a designer get the four-word phrase on the tags of Patagonia's Stand Up Shorts? Organizational alignment.
Read More
Be the Change; Change Begins With You

Be the Change; Change Begins With You

Change COVID-19 Leadership Strategy
Change and leadership are intrinsically intertwined. I can’t say this enough: If you’re not leading change, you’re not leading.
Read More
A strong coaching culture matters. Here’s why.

A strong coaching culture matters. Here’s why.

Change communication executive coaching Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy
Organizations with strong coaching cultures report revenue growth well above their industry peer group and significantly higher employee engagement.
Read More
How organizations can make remote work a success

How organizations can make remote work a success

Change COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy
Remote work and hybrid work are the future of work. To make your transformation successful, you need to be strategic.
Read More
How to attract talent when location is no longer a differentiator

How to attract talent when location is no longer a differentiator

Change communication COVID-19 Leadership Strategy
With the shift to remote work, employee experience and culture are crucial to attracting and retaining talent. Here's how to stand out.
Read More
Why mentoring is more critical than ever

Why mentoring is more critical than ever

Change communication COVID-19 executive coaching Leadership Organizational Alignment
During the pandemic, mentoring programs have been helping organizations continue to deepen their adaptive capabilities, even within organizations that have an established expectation of disruption. 
Read More
Developing Yourself As A Leader

Developing Yourself As A Leader

Change executive coaching Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
How can you develop yourself as a leader? Here are lessons learned from our work with extraordinary leaders.
Read More
FlexJobs CEO Sara Sutton on Flexibility and the Future of Work

FlexJobs CEO Sara Sutton on Flexibility and the Future of Work

Change COVID-19 Leadership Strategy women in leadership
FlexJobs CEO Sara Sutton shares her views and insights on the Future of Work and offers recommendations on implementing flexible schedules.
Read More
How organizations can help support working parents

How organizations can help support working parents

Change COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy women in leadership
Working parents are not okay. Leaders need to take bold and innovative actions to keep parents in the workforce. 
Read More
Now is the time to acquire top talent

Now is the time to acquire top talent

Change COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
“Today, we’ve got the greatest opportunity that we are going to have for decades to snag a boatload — not a busload, but a boatload — of great people.”
Read More
We Need to Make Meetings Better

We Need to Make Meetings Better

Change communication COVID-19 Leadership Process
By changing how we approach meetings and how we run meetings, we can connect and communicate without furthering meeting fatigue.
Read More
27% of parents plan to leave the workforce. This is a big deal.

27% of parents plan to leave the workforce. This is a big deal.

Change communication COVID-19 Leadership Strategy women in leadership
Now is the opportunity for leaders to take actions that will transform the workplace and the organization to support working parents and create a culture that will accelerate, rather than reverse, gender equality.
Read More
Reinventing the water cooler – and why it matters

Reinventing the water cooler – and why it matters

Change communication COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
The "water cooler effect" helps create and foster social bonds, drive innovation, align on truths,..>
Read More
8 Ways Leaders Can Engage and Support Their Remote Teams – and be a more human leader

8 Ways Leaders Can Engage and Support Their Remote Teams – and be a more human leader

Change communication COVID-19 Leadership
How leaders can engage and support their remote teams for the long haul.
Read More
To energize and transform your organization, ask questions and seek input

To energize and transform your organization, ask questions and seek input

Change COVID-19 Leadership Strategy
“By leveraging this moment to explore, experiment, and learn, organizations and their community stakeholders have a unique opportunity to redefine the scope of their priorities and collective actions."
Read More
Energize your team and create unstoppable momentum

Energize your team and create unstoppable momentum

Change communication COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
To create an unstoppable, energized team and enterprise—you can’t just tell the rest of the organization what to do. Instead, leaders are clear with the organization about what success looks like, what change is necessary to achieve it, and why it needs to happen. They involve diverse teams from across the organization in a dialogue about what needs to be done, and how to achieve the goal. That’s how you generate the energy necessary to make a change.
Read More
Plan, then adjust

Plan, then adjust

Change COVID-19 Leadership Strategy
In a “normal” environment, agile strategy gives the organization a competitive edge. In an environment that forces agility, such as the one we are in, the strategy (and the organization) becomes more agile.
Read More
Strategies for Managing your time and boundaries

Strategies for Managing your time and boundaries

COVID-19 Leadership Strategy
Read More
The Core 4

The Core 4

Change communication COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy
Read More
Move quickly and react to opportunities: Agile strategy and the path to recovery

Move quickly and react to opportunities: Agile strategy and the path to recovery

Change COVID-19 Organizational Alignment Process Strategy
Read More
Agile Strategy: Stability and Opportunity During Disruption

Agile Strategy: Stability and Opportunity During Disruption

Change COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy
Read More
Accelerate to recovery with leadership team alignment

Accelerate to recovery with leadership team alignment

Change COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy
Read More
Put an end to the “Eternal Wednesday” and the “New Normal”

Put an end to the “Eternal Wednesday” and the “New Normal”

Change COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
Move from “handling the crisis” to “moving beyond the crisis.”  “I feel like I am..>
Read More
Protecting your business and your employees

Protecting your business and your employees

Change communication COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
Read More
Together, we denounce racism and injustice

Together, we denounce racism and injustice

Change Leadership
Read More
Flex time has increased, so has burnout

Flex time has increased, so has burnout

Change communication COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
Read More
“We are all BBC dad now” – and for the foreseeable future

“We are all BBC dad now” – and for the foreseeable future

Change COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy women in leadership
Read More
Navigating the COVID-19 Crisis

Navigating the COVID-19 Crisis

Change COVID-19 Leadership Strategy
Read More
Right Now, You Need to Lead 

Right Now, You Need to Lead 

Change communication COVID-19 Leadership Process Strategy
Read More
Be a Favorite Grown-Up: How to Lead During a Crisis

Be a Favorite Grown-Up: How to Lead During a Crisis

communication COVID-19 Leadership Organizational Alignment Strategy
Read More
Remote work is different today. Acknowledging this is important.

Remote work is different today. Acknowledging this is important.

Change communication COVID-19 Leadership
A transition to remote work typically includes preparing by preparing a home office space, acquiring the necessary technology, lining up childcare, and mapping out a schedule. The COVID-19 pandemic eliminated preparation.
Read More
Resources for Leading During Crisis and Uncertainty

Resources for Leading During Crisis and Uncertainty

Change communication COVID-19 Leadership Strategy
Read More
Leading in Uncertain Times

Leading in Uncertain Times

Change communication COVID-19 Leadership Strategy
In uncertain times, fostering an environment of certainty is critical. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the..>
Read More
Dave Barash: A Celebration of Life

Dave Barash: A Celebration of Life

Leadership
Dave insisted on living a purposeful, love-filled and joyous life. It is with great sadness..>
Read More
High-Impact Change Tactics

High-Impact Change Tactics

Change Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy
Read More
Why leaders need to commit to change

Why leaders need to commit to change

Change Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy
Leadership begins with a personal commitment to change. People can accomplish amazing things when they..>
Read More
Sustaining Organizational Alignment

Sustaining Organizational Alignment

Change Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy
Read More
Key Drivers for Transformational Change

Key Drivers for Transformational Change

Change communication Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy
Key drivers great leaders harness to drive transformational change and realize extraordinary results. Leaders must..>
Read More
Using Speed as a Competitive Advantage

Using Speed as a Competitive Advantage

Change Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy
Speed can be not only a business’s biggest differentiator but also its biggest advantage. Effective..>
Read More
How to Build Organizational Alignment

How to Build Organizational Alignment

Change Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy
Read More
The First 90 Days

The First 90 Days

Change Leadership Process Strategy
The first 90 days in a new leadership role are critical. Here are proven strategies to help you succeed in your new role.
Read More
Accelerating Your Personal Leadership Development: Focus on the Process, Not Just the Outcome

Accelerating Your Personal Leadership Development: Focus on the Process, Not Just the Outcome

communication Leadership Process Strategy
By understanding "how" you develop, you get in control of your narrative, your philosophy, and..>
Read More
Reflections: Quotes to Guide, Inspire, and Challenge

Reflections: Quotes to Guide, Inspire, and Challenge

Change communication Insights Leadership Process Strategy
Read More
Time is the most precious resource available to a leader. Here’s how to maximize it’s effectiveness.

Time is the most precious resource available to a leader. Here’s how to maximize it’s effectiveness.

Change communication Leadership Process Strategy
 Time is the most precious resource available to a leader. How you spend your time..>
Read More
The Rock as the Teacher

The Rock as the Teacher

Change communication Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy
Diving into the real work of change will quickly reveal what will be required of..>
Read More
Organizational Alignment Drives Performance and Profitability

Organizational Alignment Drives Performance and Profitability

Change communication Leadership Organizational Alignment Process Strategy
Organizational alignment is a catalyst for speed and the cornerstone for growth. Most business leaders..>
Read More
The Art of Feedback

The Art of Feedback

Change communication Insights Leadership Strategy
Read More
Rules of Engagement: Establishing Ground Rules to Build High Performing Teams

Rules of Engagement: Establishing Ground Rules to Build High Performing Teams

communication Leadership Process Strategy
Effectively using ground rules is an essential underpinning of high performing teams. High performing teams..>
Read More

Bad Company/Good Company

Change Leadership Strategy
A straightforward guide to transforming a company struggling with a culture of failure and underachievement...>
Read More
How to Build A Team Of Owners

How to Build A Team Of Owners

communication Leadership Strategy
By getting your team in the game with you, you end up with a far..>
Read More
Simplicity is the key to driving results

Simplicity is the key to driving results

communication Leadership Strategy
As a leader, your job is ultimately to drive results. To do this, you must..>
Read More
Leadership Starts With You

Leadership Starts With You

Change communication Leadership Strategy
You can achieve much more than you think you can.  So can your team and..>
Read More
Helping Leaders Excel at Change

Helping Leaders Excel at Change

Change executive coaching Leadership Process Strategy
Change is a constant theme for every leader, and a complex and often messy undertaking..>
Read More
Driving Business Results

Driving Business Results

Change Leadership Process Strategy
At Brimstone, our mission is to drive valuable results through enduring change that transforms organizations,..>
Read More
Executive Coaching Can Develop Leaders and Boost Your Bottom Line

Executive Coaching Can Develop Leaders and Boost Your Bottom Line

Change executive coaching Leadership Strategy
What Effective Executive Coaching Looks Like Our coaching engagements are structured to have a direct..>
Read More
Supporting Private Equity-Backed Management Teams: When is it Time to Intervene?

Supporting Private Equity-Backed Management Teams: When is it Time to Intervene?

Change Leadership Private Equity Strategy
Private equity is increasingly bringing in third parties to help bend the time curve, deliver..>
Read More
Incivility and the Bottom Line: Don’t Be a Jerk

Incivility and the Bottom Line: Don’t Be a Jerk

communication Leadership
With examples like Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, and Elon Musk dominating headlines, it is easy..>
Read More
Communicating for Success, or the Gray Hyundai Incident

Communicating for Success, or the Gray Hyundai Incident

communication Leadership
The importance of effective communication. Last week I went to an event that required creative..>
Read More
Supporting PE-backed management teams

Supporting PE-backed management teams

Change
Supporting leadership with highly structured processes that help keep the organization aligned and focused on its priorities This is how PE firms can de-risk their investments and bend the time-curve in their favor.
Read More
Delegate? Not Necessarily

Delegate? Not Necessarily

Change communication Consulting Decision-making Leadership
A quick dive in to a summary of our eight-step process for change management that drives leaders and organizations to different and better outcomes. But that success depends upon agile leadership.
Read More
Looking forward… and back to our roots

Looking forward… and back to our roots

Innovation
Each year, the Brimstone team sets a goal of reaching our namesake island, five acres of uninhabited beach, rock, and field 15 miles from the mainland on the edge of the open Atlantic. The parallels are unmistakable.
Read More
How Fit Is Your Team?

How Fit Is Your Team?

Alignment Teams

By Todd Ragaza

For as long as people have pursued shared goals, teams have been part of the equation. In school, we work together and play together on teams. In sports, teams provide a sense of identity for the players and fans. And in the workplace, teams are the essential building blocks for getting work done. Instinctively, we all know what good teamwork feels like. But in spite of (or maybe because of) our experience observing and being part of teams, we often overlook the basics of how we practice teamwork.

Read More
The Tension of Opposites

The Tension of Opposites

Alignment Change Leadership Process Teams
Imagine being a CEO tasked with developing a breakthrough strategy that positions your organization for future growth. No matter how brilliant your ideas, you can’t drive change on your own.
Read More
Reigniting Leadership

Reigniting Leadership

Change Leadership Process Strategy

Most companies eventually face the moment when they need to look at their business with fresh eyes. Are the qualities that made them great the same ones that will drive future success? What do they need to do differently in a changing world?

Read More
Playing Together

Playing Together

Leadership women in leadership

By Dyan Dyer

Conversations around the gender gap are prevalent, sparked by books like Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In that points out some of the barriers that hold women back. Recent research studies illustrate how greater gender diversity in companies’ management correlates to better financial performance and stock market valuation. There is a host of evidence that shows how women have grown more empowered over the last several decades—culturally, educationally, and economically.

Read More
Thinking Your Way Through Stress

Thinking Your Way Through Stress

Change Consulting Leadership Process
Helping people grow as leaders is core to the work I’ve been doing over the past three decades and the most impactful area of development lies in helping people understand their behaviors, especially the ones that emerge in stressful situations.
Read More
Frontline Leadership

Frontline Leadership

Leadership
Businesses are continually tested. Each challenge can pull leaders in multiple directions. But, in my experience, one of the most important places for a leader to focus is on the teams of people on the front lines of the business.
Read More
Can I give you some feedback?

Can I give you some feedback?

Change communication Consulting Culture Leadership

By Jenny Gumm

For most of us, the word "feedback" conjures up memories of performance reviews. In truth, this is just a small part of the feedback we give and receive daily. Feedback is what we say to each other, and a lot more: our facial expressions, how we position ourselves around a table, different kinds of laughter, the hours at which emails travel, or the stories repeated in an organization. Consciously and unconsciously, feedback is all around us.

Read More
SEARCH
CONTACT BRIMSTONE

We're looking forward to hearing from you!