Lauren Breden

Cultivating Awareness and Connection at Work During Seasonal Shifts

As the holiday season approaches, the workplace often feels like a whirlwind of deadlines, demands, and year-end reviews. In the midst of this hustle, Fall offers us a natural reminder to pause, reflect, and recalibrate. The season’s changing energy encourages us to slow down, conserve our focus, and align our efforts with what truly matters—both individually and as a team.

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How to Manage Highly Creative Employees

Allowing the creative juices to flow within guidelines, deadlines and the demands of modern business is a constant test for the skilled manager when dealing with “creative types.” However, if you know how to nurture their creativity to help them grow, your company will reap many benefits. Here are some tips to encourage that growth.

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Behind the Curtain: The Cost of a Perfect Performance

I’ve spent my whole life performing. Performing for audiences. Performing for teachers. Performing for colleagues. Performing for leaders. And yet, I wouldn’t consider myself a natural performer.  I’m not energized by being in the spotlight — in fact, it drains me.  But, because my family is strangely drawn to suffering, at the age of 7

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