Grounded Insights

Explore how leaders build lasting confidence through character, capability, and connection. Discover the neuroscience of confidence, the power of confident humility, and how the CARE leadership mindset empowers teams to thrive.

Introduction “Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.” — Joe Paterno What’s your destiny? In challenging his players to believe in their destiny to do great things, Joe Paterno was tapping in their need for what Abraham Maslow called self-actualization.  According to Maslow, all of us are motivated to reach…

Grounded leadership inspires discretionary effort and enables peak performance. It is first personal (about the leader) and then public. It recognizes, accepts, and meets natural human neurological, physiological, psychological, and social responses and needs. It is particularly helpful in uncertain times. Uncertainty can be unsettling and impair performance As I write this, I’m sitting in…