by Bill Treasurer | Nov 10, 2015 | Courageous Leadership
A lot of people ask me, “How did you get interested in the virtue of courage?” My answer? It actually started with a profound fear – the high dive! I was never a great athlete as a kid, but one day at the local pool I “accidentally” did a...
by Bill Treasurer | Oct 16, 2013 | Courageous Leadership
People often ask me how I define courage. My usual response is that what matters more is how you define courage. What does courage look like to you? Who are some courageous role models in your own life? When an organization brings me in to build workplace courage, one...
by Bill Treasurer | Sep 4, 2013 | Courageous Leadership
Fear is bad for business. It lowers morale, engagement, and ultimately performance. Despite the overwhelming evidence about fear’s debilitating impacts on performance, many leaders still resort to stoking people’s fears to get work done. Margaret Wheatley,...
by Bill Treasurer | Aug 21, 2013 | Personal Growth
Time sure does fly. It’s hard for me to believe that it’s been over ten years since my first book, Right Risk, was published. At the time, risk-taking was very much on my mind. I was restless and overly content in a six-figure job with Accenture, one of the world’s...
by Bill Treasurer | Aug 7, 2013 | Leadership Development
Many years before founding Giant Leap Consulting, I was a member of the U.S. High Diving Team. Every day I would climb to the top of a hundred-foot high-dive ladder (the equivalent of a ten-story building) and stand atop a one-foot-by-one-foot perch. Then, after a...
