Executive Development Group Blog
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Articles from the field
Overcoming our natural aversion to change
Writer Michael Toebe asked Randy about resistance to learning. Read the article "Answers Behind the Resistance to Learning" here. This is an especially timely subject, as we all face increasing uncertainty, that is evolving with every news cycle.Toebe does a nice...
Learning your way through a tempest
It’s better to continue to sail through a violent storm than to turn back. If you head back, you’ll lose any progress you made getting through the storm. Depending on the direction the storm is moving you’ll be racing to outrun it. The storm could easily catch you...
Remembering our friend, mentor, and colleague Bob Dorn
As an innovative and compassionate clinical psychologist, Dr. Robert C. Dorn was a pioneer in developing our current protocols for feedback in executive coaching. Bob was also a good friend and mentor of the Executive Development Group partners, in his role as a...
HEC and TRIUM EMBA programs earn top rankings from Financial Times
The "Chateau" Building at HEC Paris. Photo by DXR. Congratulations are in order to our friends and colleagues in Paris. This is because the HEC executive MBA (EMBA) program is ranked number one by Financial Times in the publication’s annual survey of business...
Executive Development Group partner Randy White to chair APA Council Leadership Team
Greensboro, NC—Dr. Randall P. White, a consulting psychologist, executive coach, professor, and author, has been elected to Chair the Council Leadership Team of the American Psychological Association. He will serve as Chair-elect for one year before assuming the Chair...
Architects of Change – topically edgy, ultimately inspiring
I’m recommending a new book, Architects of Change: Designing Strategies for a Turbulent Business Environment, by Dr. Jeremy Ghez. But first, some disclosure is in order. For decades now I’ve been studying the effects of ambiguity and uncertainty on leadership....
Post #MeToo, are men ready to adjust?
Earlier this year, LeanIn.org published a survey—Working Relationships in the #MeToo Era—and the results made big news with coverage in major media.The most notable finding from our perspective is that in light of the #MeToo movement, men now report being less...
Lily Kelly-Radford leads HEC Paris Master Class on corporate integrity
Corporate integrity was the subject. And "Little Lies Cost Big Money" was the title. Both were integral to a HEC Paris Master Class in Doha, led by Lily Kelly-Radford. Corporate lies are not just a moral quandary, but a financial problem—in millions of dollars—when...
Women Helping Women seminar in Doha reveals progress in gender parity, along with many of the same old obstacles
In 1987, the idea of some 200 women, in mostly STEM careers, many with advanced degrees, gathering in Doha, Qatar to discuss women in leadership seemed impossible.
Facilitating “Women Helping Women” seminar in Doha
Women employees from Qatar Petroleum (QP), Qatargas (QG), and ExxonMobil Qatar Limited (EMQL) took part in the event and made it a successful endeavor in inspiring other female professionals to join the women leadership consortium.