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Everyday SHEro – Lyn Turknett: Lover of Learning, Leadership, and People

By Susan Hitchcock Founder & Host Emerita of Women in Leadership It’s hard – make that impossible – not to be inspired and challenged to be a better person the more time you spend with Carolyn Turknett, or Lyn as we know her. She’s widely known and highly respected in Atlanta and beyond for co-founding […]

December 13, 2023 View Article

LeadHERship Lounge Podcast

Welcome to the LeadHERship Lounge, a restorative space for women who embrace leading and learning. Each episode is brought to you by the Turknett Leadership Group and hosted by Anne Quiello, an executive coach and leadership development consultant. Stay tuned for inspiring and informative interviews with experts in leadership, especially if you’re seeking to be […]

April 3, 2023 View Article

Leadership Development Then and Now – What Hasn’t Changed

By Lyn Turknett Co-founder and Co-chair, TLG About 25 years ago we had an experience that showed the shocking power of development opportunities. A super-talented, high-powered salesperson at a large telecom was about to leave. Her boss was frantic. Amazingly, it wasn’t a retention bonus that kept her, or a promise of a promotion. She […]

January 25, 2023 View Article

Leadership Character is for Everyone

By Lyn Turknett Co-founder and Co-chair, TLG Someone asked recently whether the Leadership Character Model came first or our book – Decent People, Decent Company – came first. The answer is that the model came first, and in thinking about the years in the early 1990’s when my husband and business partner, Bob Turknett, were […]

October 26, 2022 View Article

From the Experts: Leadership Character

Leadership Character is at the core of everything we do at Turknett Leadership Group. Guided by the Leadership Character Model, we help to develop leaders of character who are grounded in integrity and lead with a balance of respect and responsibility. We asked some of our experts what it means to be a leader […]

October 26, 2022 View Article

A Guide to Identifying High Potentials

By Lyn Turknett Co-founder and Co-chair, TLG Thinking about how we identify high potentials in organizations is a really big question. There are three things that come to my mind that organizations should likely be thinking about: 1. Should you be paying more attention to all your talent, not just those selected as high […]

September 26, 2022 View Article

How to Become an Enterprise Leader

By Lyn Turknett Co-founder and Co-chair, TLG Developing an Enterprise Leadership Mindset I remember distinctly a conversation with a leader who had just hired two new employees, and was startled by the difference in their attitudes. One seemed competent but waited to be told what to do, while the other was already thinking strategically about […]

August 17, 2022 View Article

Imagine If We Actually Planned to Reinvent

By Tino Mantella TLG President & CEO Most companies have resisted remote work for decades. The pandemic made us all realize that most people can effectively work from home. Most companies were pacing their process to move to the cloud and then boom, leveraging technology created efficiencies and necessities. Most leaders, before Covid hit, had […]

January 18, 2022 View Article

Harnessing Your Story

By the Turknett Team Every month we shine the spotlight on one of our expert consultants. We aim to highlight the diversity and variety of backgrounds that make up the best leadership development team in the Southeast. This month, we decided to get together with Richard Stone, our Chief Storyteller and Strategic Partner, to ask […]

January 18, 2022 View Article

Six Benefits of Coaching

By Vicki Abelson TLG Senior Consultant – Healthcare If you’ve never worked with a Coach before it can feel a little daunting. What do you expect? How does it work? What do you say? What are the benefits of coaching? The International Coaching Federation defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative […]

January 18, 2022 View Article