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The Three Stories Every Leader Should Tell engaged by design founder story leadership macro leadership purpose story storytelling value story Jul 30, 2025

In leadership, influence starts with connection—and there’s no better way to connect than through st...

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Coaching Without Authority in Complex Projects coaching first-year experience influence leadership Jul 14, 2025

In our latest episode, we reminded ourselves—and our listeners—that leadership isn’t about having a ...

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Why Your Team Might Be Hiding Chocolates burnout culture leadership macro leadership May 30, 2025

There’s an old I Love Lucy episode that still gets laughs today. (Note: The image above is an AI gen...

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Launching a Podcast with Purpose: Why We Created Engaged By Design higher education leadership podcast theory-to-practice May 12, 2025

Why Engaged By Design?

Vernon and I have both spent decades leading change in higher education — as...

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