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An Exclusive Interview With Kathy Dowling & Ebonie Bailey

Introduction Bob and Lyn Turknett, the co-founders of Turknett Leadership Group, have been donors to United Way of Greater Atlanta and members of the United Way Tocqueville Society for many years. They have also been passionate volunteers, serving on campaign cabinets and on the Tocqueville cabinet. Bob and Lyn live in DeKalb County, a county […]

November 26, 2025 View Article

Character-Based Cultures Are Built in the Community

By Tim Huff President & CEO, TLG A few weeks ago, during a Habitat for Humanity build, I watched something small, but powerful, unfold. It was an early and chilly morning. About a dozen of us volunteers gathered around a warming fire of scrap wood that someone made. Most of us had barely finished our […]

November 26, 2025 View Article

An Exclusive Interview With Rob Turknett

What skills or mindsets do you see as most essential for thriving in an AI-integrated workplace? Integrity is where I would begin, as it underpins our Leadership Character Model. Technology amplifies our ethical decisions, so starting with integrity is key. For our human organizations to thrive, it is critical that we use these new generative […]

October 22, 2025 View Article

The AI Real Threat Isn’t the Machine… It’s Losing Your Humanity

By Tim Huff President & CEO, TLG What was the first prompt you ever asked to your favorite AI Large Language Model? My first was to ChatGPT: “So… are you like the computer from War Games?” Another of my earliest prompts was to create a poem about my pet beagle, Scout, winning a basketball game. […]

October 21, 2025 View Article

An Exclusive Interview With Demi Gray

Why is navigating extended leave such a challenge for both employees and organizations? From my perspective, extended leave is one of those moments where personal needs and business needs really collide. On the employee side, there’s often stress about job security, uncertainty around the leave, concerns about pay continuity, and then also just the team’s […]

September 24, 2025 View Article

When Extended Leave Becomes a Leadership Test

By Tim Huff President & CEO, TLG Twenty years ago this year, in 2005, I stepped away from my job as a cube-dwelling IT Analyst at Walt Disney World for sixteen months. I wasn’t moving to another role, going back to school, or even taking a sabbatical. I was deploying to Afghanistan with the U.S. […]

September 24, 2025 View Article

An Exclusive Interview With Christine Mayfield

Dr. Christine Mayfield has over 20 years of consulting experience in multiple industries, including financial services, healthcare, retail, hospitality, transportation, and media.  Her areas of focus are leadership assessment and development, organizational surveys, and employee selection processes.  Why do you think succession planning often gets deprioritized, even in organizations that value long-term strategy? It often […]

August 19, 2025 View Article

Succession Planning: More Than a Spreadsheet Exercise

By Tim Huff President & CEO, TLG What happens when one of the most admired companies in the world stumbles at the most important leadership transition of all: naming its next CEO? The Walt Disney Company’s story is a tale that all CHROs should know. When Bob Iger stepped down as CEO in 2020, the […]