The Canary in the Coal Mine (Workplace): Listening to Early Warning Signs in Culture and Performance In the early days of mining, workers carried small canaries deep into the tunnels—not for company, but for survival. The canary’s fragile lungs were exquisitely sensitive to toxic gases like carbon monoxide. If the bird grew silent or fell […]
The Hidden Leadership ROI: Core Values Alignment for Strategic Decision Makers In high-stakes leadership, clarity of values is not a luxury-it’s a lever of trust, influence, and long-term value creation. Yet, too many executives operate from values they inherited, not intentionally defined. Left unchecked, this misalignment can quietly undermine decision quality, employee engagement, brand trust,
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The New ROI of People Strategy: Shifting from Activity Tracking to Business Impact For too long, organizations have measured the success of their people strategy with activity-based metrics such as: How many employees completed training? What percentage participated in the engagement survey? How many hires did we make this quarter? These numbers are easy to
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At Harris Whitesell Consulting, we’ve worked with hundreds of executives and leadership teams navigating market turbulence, rapid innovation, restructuring, and stakeholder pressure. One truth continues to emerge: Leaders who intentionally manage their well-being outperform those who don’t. Not because they grind harder. But because they lead with clarity, coherence, and sustainable energy—especially in high-stakes, high-stress environments. The
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In an era defined by rapid change, complex challenges, and constant innovation, organizations must go beyond instinct and tradition to optimize human potential. Organizational and people assessments—scientifically validated tools for measuring culture, climate, engagement, innovation, creativity, behavior, skills, motivations, and cognitive ability—have become essential for cultivating high-performing individuals and organizations. When used with intention and
“Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out.” ~ Jack Buck, Baseball Commentator, St. Louis Cardinals Resilience is key to an organization’s culture, climate, and employee engagement – resilience drives well-being, results, and success. Understanding the key components of resilience and how to build and enhance resilience is
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Harris Whitesell Consulting LLC has launched their new women’s leadership development program, Remarkable Women Leaders™. This offering is in addition to its comprehensive and inclusive leadership development programming that serves leaders worldwide. “We are often asked to design, develop, and facilitate leadership development for women leaders, corporate women’s employee resource groups, or for businesses who
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TOLERANCE FOR UNCERTAINTY AND AMBIGUITY – A CRITICAL SKILL SET FOR LEADERSHIP Tolerance is the willingness or ability to allow, endure, and accept a situation, circumstance, or happening. Uncertainty is the state or feeling of apprehensive, doubtful, risky, unpredictable, unreliable, or unsure. Ambiguity is the lack of clarity, consistency, understanding, and certainty. Tolerance for uncertainty
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Demonstrating Leadership Credibility: A Trusted Formula for Company Success (Written for Know Women by Lori Harris, Managing Partner, Harris Whitesell Consulting) How aware are you, as a leader, of the perceived credibility of your leadership with team, employees, partners, and customers? Are you willing to commit to radical responsibility? As a leader, do you spend
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Cognitive Communication: Communicating to Maximize Excellence and Business Results The ability to effectively communicate, and avoid miscommunications, is a key competency for leadership. We know from recent research and studies that productive communications can positively impact engagement, and the reality in the majority of organizations is that effective and productive communications do not happen often
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Executive Presence – An Essential Competency All leaders are capable of executive presence. Some have varying levels of it. Not all are consistently effective at it. Beyond vision and strategy, both key competencies for executives, there are various other key functional areas of tactical experience and technical knowledge of industry, business, and operational systems
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We are thrilled to invite you to a transformative event that Harris Whitesell Consulting, Managing Partners, Lori Harris and Lynn Whitesell, are a part of — The Beautiful, Balanced BOSS Summit: Harnessing Hormones, Productivity, and Presence for Peak Performance After 40. Hosted by my friend, Dr. Susan Lovelle, we’ve gathered an impressive lineup of experts
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