Authentic leadership is at the root of cultures of great innovation, engagement, outstanding client experiences, and growth.

Authenticity is our natural state of being. The authentic self is a state of being where we are centered, creative, adaptive, and inspired.

Our suppressing who we are to fit in is exhausting. It kills flow and creativity. It also prevents genuine connection with others.

Being true to ourselves is about having courage to define our own version of what it is to live a successful life.

Confused? Confusion is good. It’s an excellent place to learn something new from.

Practice holding labels lightly as leaders so you have greater range in your behaviors and are more adaptable and effective in a greater range of situations.

Authenticity is a choice we make about who we want to be that inspires our greater aliveness.

The struggle to live up to an “ideal image” of who we should be in order to feel safe misdirects and depletes our energy.

To return to our authenticity, we have to let go of all that we are not. We recognize and let go of the judgments, fears, and “shoulds” that keep us stuck.

Authentic leadership is leading adaptively from your core, choosing who you’re most inspired to be to serve the greatest good in this moment.

Authentic leadership is a whole body experience. Our bodies have a lot more to teach us about ourselves than our thoughts.

A wise person does not fear failure but gains experience and wisdom.

It's fine, but don't ask me to strip again or I'm going to wonder what your intentions really are.

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

Some kind of way, we have to say enough is enough.

When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen.

We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.

In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.

John McCain and I, and our camps, are working together to get John McCain elected.