Jackie Robinson Day: Leadership Lessons from Breaking Barriers
Every April 15, Jackie Robinson Day invites us to remember more than a moment in sports history. It invites us to reflect on leadership and what it means to step forward when the path is blocked, the risks are high, and the cost is personal. Jackie Robinson’s legacy endures not simply because he broke baseball’s…
Excited to Lead the Global Voices Panel at ILA 2025
By Brian Redmond, PhD with the help of Microsoft Co-Pilot As we gear up for the International Leadership Association’s 2025 Global Conference in Prague, Czehia (October 15-18) under the theme “Leading Together,” I’m thrilled to share a sneak peek into a session that’s close to my heart: Global Voices: Amplifying ILA Leadership Voices from Around…
The Great Eight Leadership Competencies
By: Brian Redmond, PhD Bartram’s Great Eight Leadership Competencies. Dave Bartram is a leadership researcher who popularized the idea of leadership competencies. His research was based on the behaviors of leaders in the real world and his model and data is the basis for many of the current big consulting companies’ proprietary competency models.…
Red-nosed Reindeer and Terrible Leadership
By: Brian Redmond, PhD I had a humorous conversation the other night and I figured that this time of year could use a little extra levity, so I’m sharing an expanded version of the conversation here (i.e. geek analysis). The story of Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer (May, 1939 as shared via Pupovac, 2013) is an example of terrible…
Self-awareness is Leadership
By: Brian Redmond, PhD Recently I gave a talk at a leadership conference (a different one than I mentioned before) and I thought I would share the ideas here as well. The talk was about self-awareness in leadership. But before we get into the idea of self-awareness, let’s first talk about leadership. Leadership What people…
AI Series #2: Generative AI fact checking Part 2 and a bit more analysis
By Brian Redmond, PhD and Bing AI This is the second entry in a series of posts about generative AI and what it means for your writing. This entry and the previous one in the series focus primarily on fact checking AI. That is why it I had it write blog entries about me. That…
AI Series #1: Generative AI and Fact Checking Part 1
By Brian Redmond, PhD and Bing AI I’m going to write a series on AI. And the first few are going to focus on what it looks like with regards to accuracy and its implications for the writing you do and why you can’t just let it write for you without fact-checking. To do so…
Sample Leadership Philosophy and its Practice
By: Brian Redmond, PhD I am water. Water is calm. But it is also powerful. Water goes with the flow. But it also shapes the landscape. Water is adaptive and influential. That is the summary of a leadership philosophy. Mine. Like any good leadership philosophy it is easy to recall. That’s why I used the…
Adaptive and Creative Leadership
By: Brian Redmond, PhD Recently I was discussing the idea of adaptiveness for leaders with some colleagues. This was intriguing to me for a variety of reasons. What first came to mind was one of the current theories of leadership, adaptive leadership. That theory of leadership boils down to changing strategies as the situation demands…
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