Dear CHRO: AI Just Changed Your Job Description
At the 2025 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, the agenda was clear: AI is here, it’s accelerating, and CIOs are being asked to lead the charge. But as I listened to session after session, a different question began to emerge for me: Where is HR in all of this? Because while CIOs may be in the […]
Conscious Family Business: A Blueprint for Legacy Preservation
Family businesses hold a unique position in the global economy, combining tradition, entrepreneurship, and emotional ties. However, preserving their legacy requires intentional strategies that address behavioral risks, values alignment, and intergenerational collaboration. With only 30% of family businesses surviving into the second generation, 12% to the third, and 3% to the fourth, according to the […]
How to Find Significance in Work
Finding Meaning in Challenging Times In our recent webinar, Leading with Purpose , Teryluz Andreu and Michelle Hollingshead addressed the challenges of finding significance in work, particularly during tough times. While motivational quotes like “Follow your passion” are easy to share, real life often requires enduring stress, change, and the need to provide for one’s […]
Building Conscious Kids
I have a dream, and its name is Conscious Kids! And I want us to dream together. With my colleagues at Axialent, I work with great business and people leaders around the world. Fundamentally, we help build conscious cultures and coach leaders to successfully run conscious businesses. I love what I do. I really do it out of passion, […]
Is your culture transformation journey stuck?
Many organizations have identified the need to drive culture change to adapt to evolving business needs and strategies and new ways of working and retaining talent. The need is clear, and the desire is there. So, what gets in the way of actual change happening?
The Pandemic I experienced as CEO
The first thing I perceived was fear — fear in our people, fear in our clients, fear in our families. And I understood that the first thing we had to do was to overcome fear…
Common Agile Myths Debunked
While many in the business world talk about Agile ways of working, how accurate is the information we think we know? Are you confusing Agile myths with reality?
The Next Normal of a New CEO
Embarking on a transformation journey at the helm of an organization is thrilling. However, journeys come to an end, and life -as well as business- goes on. That part of the story typically gets left out of the books because… who wants to hear about the ‘normal’? We revive that story here, in the final article of the series, The Next Normal of a New CEO.
The Art of Compassionate Leadership
In high achievement cultures where people are held accountable for delivering on time and their results, there is generally a misconception about what it takes to lead and inspire others. At Axialent, we find leaders who practice compassionate leadership, rather than an iron fist, are more likely to get the results they want.
Part 2 – The Next 100 Days of a New Leadership Team
In this second article of a 3 part series, we explain the focus of the next 100 days of the new leadership team in its safe descent back to base camp. Given the importance of the next steps and inspired by Fred Kofman’s Four D’s, which he described in his book “The Meaning Revolution”, we work to ensure that teams return from a powerful offsite in a masterful way.