It's our eighth birthday! Since 2013 we've remained committed to facilitating discovery and shifting mindsets for leaders around the world. To celebrate, we asked leaders who have traveled on the journey with us "What is an insight that sticks with you from our time together?

As you grow your personal advisory board, a thoughtful plan is key. Before you reach out and ask for someone’s time, you need to ask yourself the following.

Episode 1 of our new series Collective Conversations focuses on answering that question with our special guest Lisa Riccobono-Coates, SVP and Retail Area Manager for Huntington National Bank, who leads nearly 500 people in corporate and retail settings.

Over the next three months, we’re going to take a look at how to build your personal advisory board, beginning with part one—taking stock.

The leadership lessons we learned in 2020 are powerful - we have permission to be bold, and the antidote to uncertainty is self-certainty - but we also need to give our brains a break from rigor and get into play and joy. Plus curiosity is a foundational value of ours.

Enter the TCA Team’s 2020 Favorites.

In this episode, Emily Drake and Tim Jahn discuss why Emily is a recovering perfectionist, how her family jumped in to support Emily when they saw how her job was negatively affecting her life, the inspiration her mom has been, and more.

When it comes to motivation, The Collective Academy is committed to curiosity (one of our values) and accessing “fuel” to keep us going when the motivation runs dry.

Two years ago, a client asked me if I could help her organization diversify their cadre of coaches for executives. I said yes, but then sat in stillness. I knew exactly one Black coach. And I knew exactly zero indigenous coaches or coaches of color.

This was a turning point for The Collective Academy.