Posts by Shannon Cassidy

“Every day I wake up, I don’t feel the need to explain why I or the community I identify with exists.” “I choose chronic self conviction over chronic self-doubt.” Tiffany Tavarez serves as Senior Vice President, Technology Diversity, Community and Sustainability (TDCS) at Wells Fargo.  This global team focuses on people strategy, cultural transformation, and…

“When a firm gets large enough to start splitting into departments, moving parts of the work upstairs, downstairs, around the globe. We start replicating job descriptions, engagement drops, outcomes suffer. That’s where the fixing work dynamic we’re discussing really shows up.” “The triple win is that you get a higher level of productivity, you get…

“We can open the doors…but if that individual does not find the passion to go through and take on the challenges, they don’t go through. They stay in the same spot.” “I remember studying, afraid to fail because I knew if I failed, I was going back to South Providence, to the streets, which meant…

“Use this framework like a compass to guide specific conversations with specific people to get to a better place.” “Often when we talk about culture, we talk about it in a way that allows culture to be like a superhighway for bias.” Kim Scott is the author of Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without…

“My biggest piece of advice to lead more generously, is to find your own passion and your own area of expertise and give in that regard.” – Benita Fitzgerald Mosley   Benita Fitzgerald Mosley is an Olympic gold medalist and an established international leader in the nonprofit, sports, and business sectors. Benita currently serves as…

“The way to be most impactful at work requires us to use skills that many of us were, including myself, were not taught growing up…Many of us were not taught to understand how we’re feeling. And how we’re feeling impacts our behavior and how our judgments and biases impact our behavio.” – Tonya Ladipo  …

“It does help you biologically for those reasons because cortisol and oxytocin can’t coexist in our bodies. Which means the more stressed we are, the less likely we are to be generous, but the reverse is true. If we are feeling really authentically generous toward others, toward ourselves, then the cortisol doesn’t have a chance…

“The genius of Tenacity is really about driving projects and tasks towards completion. You know, getting things across the finish line and ensuring that you are meeting the standards that were set and achieving the results that you set out to achieve.” – Julie Dobbins   Tenacity Crave: Clarity Tenacity Crushed by: Ambiguity    The…

“When you have Enablement on a team, people don’t feel alone. They don’t feel forgotten.” – Julie Dobbins “The genius of Enablement is really about being able to anticipate needs, coming alongside, whether it’s the team or the plan, the project, to really get things off the ground, to get things moving and to help…

“The genius of Galvanizing…love to rally people to get on board. They are creating energy around an idea or a plan. They are bringing momentum and direction for the team, and they really are keeping everybody moving and looking in the same direction.” – Julie Dobbins   Galvanizing Crave: Reaction Galvanizing Crushed by: Apathy  …