Your Leadership Legacy Isn’t Your Resume: It’s Your Dash Originally posted for Forbes Coaches Council Newsletter | August 2026 Most leaders spend their careers planning for the next promotion, quarter or strategic initiative. Few spend enough time planning for the most certain thing: their death. This isn’t a morbid exercise. It’s a clarifying leadership practice. I’ve studied […]

The Secret Organizational Cultural Glue: Relationships Originally posted for Forbes Coaches Council Newsletter | July 2026 Many leaders are asking the same question: How do we leverage artificial intelligence?   An important question, but perhaps not the most important one.   A question we should all be asking is: As AI becomes more intelligent, how […]

The Secret Organizational Cultural Glue: Relationships The power of a relationship review Originally posted for The Mind Tools Newsletter | May 2024. Many people rate time with their bosses as the worst time of their day. Consider what that means: interacting with their leader is less enjoyable than waking up to an early alarm, dealing with […]

Article Originally posted by Educate and Explore for Olympia Trust – written by Catherine R Bell Most people rate time with their bosses as the worst time of their day. Consider what that means: interacting with their manager is less enjoyable than waking up to an early alarm, dealing with a rush-hour commute, or taking […]

Originally written by Catherine R. Bell in May 2023 for Educate and Explore powered by Olympia Trust Company. I recently met with an incredible leader in a sweet local coffee shop. Wow, she was doing incredible things. Her organization is growing 50% year over year, she is fulfilled, her operating plans exceptional, her team strong, […]

Broken? Fix it! Article originally appeared in Women of Influence by Catherine Bell Catherine Bell is the founder of BluEra, an executive search and team transformation company. She’s also the best-selling author of The Awakened Company, a thought-provoking read that explores how treating businesses as communities can transform them for the better. She shares how the idea was born, […]

“Catherine sees the key to creating the kind of workplace we all would choose for ourselves as being a company culture that makes team self-awareness a primary objective for the work being done. In fact, she recommends selecting people to be hired by vetting candidates for self-awareness ahead of even job skills.” What Would It […]