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Ally Williams
SageRiver Welcomes Research Consultant 622 415 SageRiver Consulting LLC

SageRiver Welcomes Research Consultant

Alexandra (Ally) Williams joined SageRiver this summer as a research consultant. Her passion for mining data, evaluating industry trends and best practices and synthesizing findings into actionable insights make her a great fit for SageRiver’s clients. We sat down with Ally this month to talk about her professional journey and what a great day looks…

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Building Authentic, Whole-Life Leaders the ICAN Way 622 415 SageRiver Consulting LLC

Building Authentic, Whole-Life Leaders the ICAN Way

The Institute for Career Advancement Needs (ICAN) has been building authentic, whole-life leaders for more than 35 years. SageRiver sat down with Julie Burrell Lillig, director of strategic partnerships at ICAN, to learn about ICAN’s unique philosophy and approach to supporting leaders at each stage of the development journey. SageRiver (SR): How did ICAN get…

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Fostering a Healthy Team Ecosystem 2560 1707 SageRiver Consulting LLC

Fostering a Healthy Team Ecosystem

Structural changes in the U.S. workforce have created new challenges for team performance. With employee tenures dropping and contractors filling critical roles, how can leaders build cohesive teams and enduring performance? The answer lies in fostering a team ecosystem that persists even as individual members change.

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The Essential Skill Great Leaders Share 500 334 SageRiver Consulting LLC

The Essential Skill Great Leaders Share

It happens every time. He stood in front of the room, remembering the moment he uncovered a family secret. Everything he had known about himself and his place in the world was wrong. As he grappled with new truths, he was forced to decide what he truly believed about trust, family, identity and life purpose.…

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Testing, Testing, 1-2-3 622 415 SageRiver Consulting LLC

Testing, Testing, 1-2-3

By the time I met them, they were ready for change. They were locked into old patterns and conflicted about their direction. Work had become an exercise in frustration, and their stress levels were rising. This healthcare organization faced real challenges so their team dynamics mattered. Seismic shifts in the marketplace required them to redesign…

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What’s Agile Got to Do with It? 622 415 SageRiver Consulting LLC

What’s Agile Got to Do with It?

Struggling to swim in fast-moving waters, many organizations adapt by trying to “manage” or “lead” change. These efforts can create short-term value, but they miss a central truth—that change is coming faster and faster from all directions and can’t be fully anticipated or controlled. Organizations that try often expend enormous energy and resources trying to…

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Doing Work Where Your Deep Gladness and the World’s Deep Hunger Meet 622 415 SageRiver Consulting LLC

Doing Work Where Your Deep Gladness and the World’s Deep Hunger Meet

Traveling enriches our world view, sometimes in small but profound ways. My journal fell open where a crisply folded article pressed tightly between pages of “Peru July 2014.” Handwritten across the article’s headline, my mother notes ‘Ames Tribune 6/6/13’. The send-off package included the succinct columns of an article titled “We become what we do”. Yellowed and…

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How Great Leaders Inspire Action 551 399 SageRiver Consulting LLC

How Great Leaders Inspire Action

Spark action and inspire followership by crystalizing what you believe. People follow others for themselves, because they believe what you believe. Take a short-break and learn from Simon Sinek’s most watched Ted Talk:

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