Lisa Arie

I was recently asked why it's important to teach our children leadership and innovation. My response: You don't have to. Every person is wired with the instincts to lead and innovate. All you have to do is hone and develop these natural instincts.

Our best recourse to having great leaders...

It is critical to the careers and business success of high achievers to be able to connect to and understand how to use their sense of vulnerability. You are at risk until you engage this critical sense.

Here's why:

1. In spite of popular opinion vulnerability is not a...

Education complete. Degrees earned. Executive position secured.

The boxes are checked, and we're off to the races. So what's that strange disquiet rumbling inside?

Recently I had the pleasure of taking part in a presentation for the National Association of Women MBAs. My work is experiential so the...

Stories are mental constructs we create to uphold the status quo. In rapidly changing environments, we cling to any semblance of normal, which can be akin to clinging to flotsam on a raging river.

Our ability to move beyond what we know, to let go of the flotsam, to...

I live in a remote area of Colorado called the Great Sage Plains. Today I looked out over those plains and watched a storm rolling over the mountain range in the distance.

One part of the mountains was in dazzling sunlight. The other was being eaten up by the billowing...

A little while ago I was asked about Plan Bs.

At the time, I happened to be driving a tractor, a pastime that lends itself to contemplation. There's something about the slow, repetitive motion that helps me think. So I chugged along and thought a bit before I gave my...

Living in the present is the best way to navigate, meet and experience life. This means not living in the past (yesterday), not projecting into the future, not having a hidden agenda and not attaching yourself to any story you or someone else has created.

Our personal stories grow...

You're overwhelmed and the reason is obvious.

There's too much information, too many choices, too much sensory stimulation and there's the ever-encroaching next crisis. There's no time to catch your breath because chaos seems to be everywhere. Chaos has become the norm and you're on automatic pilot in the way...

You have something great and want to make it greater.

Maintaining the current approach hides our ability to foresee what's coming next, costing us the ability to discern from what in our current environment may be holding us back. The status quo is where we feel safe. So how...

Have you ever had a horse sit on your head? I have -- not intentionally, of course.

It was one of those moments that sort of creeps up on you when you are so focused on the task at hand that you don't realize that you have a huge 1200-pound...

Isn't it a shock when we get in an accident? It's an emotional shock. Intellectually we know an accident is possible. We carry insurance just for that reason, right? Chaos happens when we react to chaos intellectually but are behaving like chaos won't happen. That's when chaos becomes chaos. That's...