Media Library

Luckett Davidson, Positive Leadership

Work and life are full of transitions, good and bad, chosen and unchosen. Often, we get overwhelmed by the complexity of these transitions. A great way to make transitions smoother while retaining what is meaningful is with a metaphor. In this session, you will learn the metaphor of the Old Shore, the New Shore, and the Voyage in between and how you can use this metaphor to confront the instability, uncertainty, and emotions of transitions in productive ways.

Karen Newton, Positive Leadership

Imagine if your emotions could predict your organization’s success. Research supports the radical idea that since emotions inform our thoughts, decisions and actions, we can actually benefit from paying attention to them. Instead of emotions being a problem to eliminate, we can learn to view exhaustion, fear, anger and impatience as informants. With practice, you will gain a new appreciation for the full range of emotions and a new leadership tool for compassion and flexibility.

Henrietta Pepper, Creativity

Ikigai is a Japanese term that blends two words: “iki” meaning “to live,” and “gai” meaning “reason,” which translates to “a reason to live.”  It’s a concept that encourages people to discover what truly matters to them and to live a life filled with purpose and joy. Finding your ikigai involves a journey of self-reflection and exploration. 

Patty Payette & Karen Newton, Decisiveness

University of Louisville Center for Positive Leadership presents the Leading With Podcast. Karen Newton introduces the podcast with a mindfulness exercise so that listeners can focus in on the topic of Think Aloud Leadership. Patty Payette, an expert on decisiveness, discusses her personal experience with thinking aloud when leading. Patty also discusses the research surrounding Think Aloud Protocols (TAPs) and its many benefits to effective leadership.

Melissa Brock, Burnout, Curiosity

Learn how to support others in their struggles with burnout using this tool. Melissa Brock also discusses the different aspects of curiosity and curiosity’s role in combating burnout.

Ryan Quinn, Positive Leadership

Ryan Quinn, our Academic Director, explains what the Center for Positive Leadership does and how we define positive leadership.

Brigitte Burpo, Inclusivity

The "DIE" Model is a planning tool for organizational change related to equity and inclusion, which helps leaders navigate planning, implementation, and evaluation phases by mapping necessary structural and cultural shifts. It begins with a commitment proposition, identifies stakeholders and resources, organizes engagement strategies, and establishes measurable outcomes for assessment.

Emma Sterrett-Hong, Inclusivity

The active inclusivity development model identifies skills needed to enhance inclusivity, recognizing that everyone has room for improvement despite varying baseline abilities. These skills help overcome societal obstacles embedded in implicit structures, with different situations requiring different skill applications, all working together to reinforce inclusive practices.

Cherie Dawson-Edwards, Inclusivity, Justice

The scenarios in this video are examples of things people said that violated the experienced justice of people because of their race, gender, age, sexual orientation, or other group membership. The violations may or may not have been intentional. The scenarios provide us with an opportunity to understand and apply principles of restorative justice.

Ryan Quinn, Inclusivity

Ryan Quinn explains his Inclusive Events Workbook that is aimed to help users practice planning and executing inclusive experiences as part of a larger effort to build more inclusive organizations.  The workbook includes: 1) an explanation of why inclusive experiences matter;  2) consider experiences; 3) anticipate exclusion; 4) generate inclusion; 5) plan the experience; and 6) additional resources.

Ryan Quinn, Patience

Learn how patience takes different forms in different circumstances and adapt approaches to exhibiting patience so it is inspiring to each stakeholder or stakeholder group.

Ryan Quinn, Positive Leadership

Virtues are standards of moral excellence.

Ryan Quinn, Positive Leadership

When we say excellence, what we mean is excellence that deviates from norms or conventions.

Ryan Gottfredson, Positive Leadership

In The Elevated Leader, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author, Ryan Gottfredson, brings the latest research and discoveries from psychology and neuroscience to help you upgrade your internal operating system via a cutting-edge form of development called vertical development.

Howard Behar, Positive Leadership

Howard Behar, former president of Starbucks, receives a positive leadership award from Ryan Quinn, Academic Director of the Center for Positive Leadership.