Businesses are coalescing into ecosystems and becoming more interconnected, dynamic and interdependent. This trend began well before the pandemic but has accelerated in the past year. The trend is ...

While it takes many forms, the Wurtele Center’s programming centers around our model of collaborative leadership. We define collaborative leadership as taking the initiative to work intentionally and ...

Across industries, leaders are rethinking success by prioritizing empathy, rest, and collaborative systems to sustain workplace culture amid uncertainty. Strategies range from reframing rest as a ...

In an ever more complex and information-overloaded world, teaming up to collaborate is key to learning, innovating and performing. We tend to misunderstand groups of people who report to one person as ...

We’re at the top of the new year, but we’re just months away from another national election. This one will be critical to many of the issues that are important to women, and Black women in particular.

There’s a well-known proverb: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” But going together isn’t always easy—it can be messy. It requires compromise, humility, and ...

Sometimes I think of what I do as supporting those with a collaborative consciousness to adopt an attitude of leadership, and those in leadership positions to regain both a commitment to and skills in ...

After years of working with CEOs and leading companies myself, I’ve observed four distinct leadership styles that shape organizations, families, and even governments. These approaches—authoritarianism ...

For any Smithie who wants to change something for the better! To make real change, you will have to work with other people to understand and address complex challenges, and the Collaborative ...