(Re) Introducing Prouty
Name: Adrienne Jordan | 4 Years at Prouty Areas of Focus: Strategic Planning, Leadership Development, Women’s Leadership, Nonprofit, Education, Growing Organizations Memorable Client Experience: Working with organizations making significant positive impact in people’s lives, our community and the world. Favorite Prouty Memory: Anytime we are all together! Interests Outside of Work: Spending time with friends/family, […]
Prioritizing Well-Being
Burnout. Stress. Anxiety. Mental health. The Great Re-evaluation. The Great Resignation. Employee shortage. Turnover. These terms are all too familiar among organizations today. Literature reviews and research demonstrate that high employee well-being can predict greater customer satisfaction, more productivity, greater profitability, and may influence stock prices. Employee satisfaction can predict revenue, sales, and profits. Happy […]
How prouty i•will transformed this participant’s perspective on life and leadership
Over and over at The Prouty Project, we come back to this Oliver Wendell Holmes quote: “A mind stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” prouty i•will has done that over the course of the pandemic, in humble and grand ways, which brings us to today. As we move […]
A Life’s Work—Learning from Mike Felmlee
Mike Felmlee and I have had the opportunity to work (and play) together since 1980, as “young pups” at PwC, both in Minneapolis and New York City. As some of you have heard, Mike is beginning his retirement process, with the goal of transitioning his client relationships over the next three to five years. Mike […]
18 Financial Tips for a 22-Year-Old College Grad
18 Financial Tips for a 22-Year-Old College Grad: 1. Live below your means. If you make $40K a year, live on $34K (including taxes) and save the rest. If you’re making $4M a year, live on $3.4M (including taxes) and save the rest. 2. Do you really want / need that […]
Cultural Competence
How Conscious is Your Global Team? THE MOST EFFECTIVE leaders fall into two camps: Unconscious Competents and Conscious Competents. Unconscious Competents learn to adapt to ambiguous circumstances, read the invisible communication, and ask for or deliver information in a way that is non-threatening. Their style seems to elicit critical information that others could not […]
Building a Winning Team
Building a Global Winning Team Peter specializes in engaging business leaders and teams in transformational experiences which enhance their skills, systems, and processes for working better together. He is a multi-faceted experiential designer and facilitator who has delivered over 25 years of education-based adventure and innovative training to executives and management teams around the […]
Ten Things We Do to Create a Sustainable Work Life Balance
Kristin Jonason and I recently had 9 hours of “windshield time” driving to/from Norway, Iowa, to meet with a new client. One of the topics we were batting around as we drove down the “Avenue of the Saints” (the route from St. Paul, Minnesota, to St. Louis, Missouri), was sustainable work-life balance. Kristin […]
Harnessing the Wisdom of Harnish
*Article also appears in The 2021 Q4 Prouty Pulse. We had the chance to spend four hours with Verne Harnish, Author of Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0) and Scaling Up Compensation, while asking him 15 wide-ranging questions. Enjoy the excerpts from our very lively conversation! The most memorable quote from your mom […]
Chess Moves
Using Global Leadership Development to Facilitate More Effective Business Strategies When companies “go global,” they often make the mistake of implanting one system or policy into another culture or country. When they do, there’s a huge gap between mindsets that directly affects whether or not the global initiative will ever be successful. For example […]