My career to date has turned out to be the ideal qualitative research for my author adventure. I am relieved that academic super-phenoms Brené Brown, Simon Senek, and Adam Grant have picked up the megaphone and are shouting out about the organizational causes and effects I care so deeply about. In a way, they have relieved me of the burden of trying to do what they’re doing on a scale and in a way that is not my path. My voice comes from a place they haven’t been, where they could never go. It is the place where people try to use the good works of others (such as theirs), their tools and techniques, with all earnestness, but fail to break through the status quo.

It is a scary place that thinks having an entire organization read a book about doing things differently and taking risks will achieve those changes. When new behavior still does not materialize, even when the detrimental effects of the status quo are openly acknowledged, a new kind of fear sets in and a hopelessness starts to grow. This is what I’ve seen and what I know. I bet you’ve lived through some of this too. This is where organizational cultures are forged into unmalleable and oppressive forces. We can’t have this. It is squashing innovation and improvement because it is thwarting our personal growth…and dignity.

My transformation adventure is taking me into the hidden truths about what I want to do with my life in this point in time…honestly. It just so happens that my authenticity and quest for a life of integrity involve you!

The bedrock of integrity is honesty…with others but first with ourselves. Let me paint a picture of what organizational disfunction looks like, feels like, and how each of us can wade through it with integrity. Follow my adventures!