Oprah Winfrey – Go Deep and Move Forward
Oprah Winfrey was born into poverty to an unmarried teen mother in rural Mississippi. Sexually abused in childhood, she ran away from home at age 13 to live with her father in Nashville, Tennessee. In those early days, Oprah loved to read and found early success as a top honor student. She began college but…
How to Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
You can face discomfort and anxiety by changing your relationship to change. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. Many of us prefer the easy road. We possess a natural inclination to stick with…
Where is the Leadership in Controlling Healthcare Costs? Utah!
Key Lesson: Sometimes leadership requires asking simple — yet radical — questions to which there may be no easy answers. It’s been a tough week for anyone trying to understand the economics of healthcare in America. Martin Shkreli, a hedge fund manager turned pharma entrepreneur, bought the rights to the critical drug Daraprim, and then…
Middle Management Saves the Day
Key Lesson: When experiments fail, be quick to acknowledge the facts and move on. Like any good CEO, Ryan Carson is interested in creating an environment where workers are happy, engaged and productive. And like many CEOs, he experimented a bit when he founded Treehouse Island, an online coding school based in Portland, Oregon. At…
Lisa Dyson: Asking and Answering Big Questions at Kiverdi
Key Lesson: Great leaders are always asking questions — of themselves and others. When Lisa Dyson was in high school, she wanted to learn the programming language C, but her school didn’t offer any classes. She asked her math teacher to teach her. He did. Today, Dyson holds a PhD in physics from MIT and is the…
Dwyane Wade and the Pursuit of Knowledge
Key Lesson: Even when you’re at the top of your game, there’s always more to learn. As a Miami Heat shooting guard, Dwyane Wade is one the NBA’s most admired players — both on and off the court. In addition to playing at the very top of his game, he’s also a dedicated family man. His memoir about…
Housing First: A Simple Solution to a Complex Problem
Key Lesson: Always be open to the possibility that the most complex problems can be solved by the simplest solutions. Sam Tsemberis started working with the homeless community in New York City in the early nineties. As a psychologist, his job was to identify and treat — sometimes against their will — people suffering from mental…
The Adaptable Amy Purdy
Key Lesson: Limitations are often things we place on ourselves — and sometimes you just have to blow through them. In many ways, Amy Purdy exemplifies what we at Healthy Companies call Grounded Leadership. Her generous spirit, her emotional and physical resilience, her drive to succeed and her dedication to personal mastery are among the…
