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An Exclusive Interview With Randall H. Lucius, PhD

I’m a licensed psychologist, with a specialty in industrial and organizational psychology. I’ve been practicing for about 30 years now. Currently, I serve as the Assistant Vice President for Learning and Development at Emory University. I lead a department of 16 people, which is divided into four distinct teams: Learning and Development, Workplace Culture and […]

May 14, 2025 View Article

An Exclusive Interview With TLG Consultant, Dr Cherry Collier

How do you help leaders distinguish between useful information and distracting noise? So when you’re thinking about useful information, I like to call that the signal—and everything else is the noise. And when you start to think about the signal, I see it like a dial. Like, way back when, you used to tune your […]

April 22, 2025 View Article

You Can’t Lead Clearly with 47 Tabs Open

By Tim Huff President & CEO, TLG I needed to buy a bag of ice. I was standing in the checkout line at my usual Saturday afternoon grocery store, juggling a mental to-do list and reminding myself: Don’t forget to ask the cashier for a bag of ice. Simple enough. But while I waited, I […]

April 17, 2025 View Article

An Exclusive Interview With TLG Advisor, Susan Hitchcock

Why is investing in the next generation of leaders important? I can think of nothing more important. In my lifetime, I’ve never felt the need for investing in our future (locally, nationally and globally) more than I do now. Everything’s changing either for the good or for the not so good and we need the […]

March 26, 2025 View Article

An Exclusive Interview With TLG Co-Founder, Lyn Turknett

Why is investing in the next generation of leaders important? Well, it seems to go without saying that investing in the next generation is important in all aspects of an organization or business. The organizations we work with are particularly interested in identifying young leaders they believe will be successful and investing in them. Otherwise, […]

March 26, 2025 View Article

Investing in the Next Generation of Leaders: What Works for Millennials and Gen Z

By Tim Huff President & CEO, TLG “I don’t want a boss—I want a coach.” That statement, shared by a high potential junior leader in her late 20s during a leadership development session, stopped the room. Her colleagues, Millennials and Gen Zers, nodded in agreement. It wasn’t a rebellion against hierarchy or authority, but it […]

March 26, 2025 View Article

Leading Through Resistance: Five Strategies to Navigate Change

By Tim Huff President & CEO, TLG Wow. 2025 is bringing a huge amount of change! Major policy shifts at the national level, economic uncertainly, organizational structure changes… the list goes on! While change is inevitable in any organization and a natural part of life, how we acknowledge and address change in our organizations can […]

February 26, 2025 View Article

An Exclusive Interview With TLG Consultant, Barb Reilly

Human beings naturally resist change. When I used to teach graduate students, I would tell them, “Take out your syllabus. There’s going to be a change.” Then, I would just watch their reactions. After a moment, I would stop and say, “We’re not going to talk about the change right now. We’re going to talk […]

February 15, 2025 View Article

An Exclusive Interview With TLG Consultant, Rick Stone

Can you tell us about the role storytelling plays in leadership and organizational development? Well, I think that leaders, whether they recognize it or not, are leading through storytelling. And if we really understand what an organization is, an organization is fundamentally a shared story. Everyone has agreed to the narrative and to the premise […]

January 22, 2025 View Article

Thriving in the Unknown: Mastering the Art of Uncertainty

By Tim Huff President & CEO, TLG I love the Indiana Jones series! Those movies are part of a small list of productions that I turn on anytime I see one being aired (Harry Potter is another). Remember that scene in The Last Crusade when Indiana Jones was at the last obstacle before discovering the […]

January 22, 2025 View Article