Great leaders don't pretend to have all the answers. Instead, they create space for curiosity, improvement, and growth.If you're leading today, you know the pace is brutal. Between AI, global competition, and nonstop uncertainty, it feels like the rules change every...
Podcast Appearances
Patrick Farran: Proven Frameworks for Leadership
May 2025 | The Influential Nonprofit
Leading with Purpose: Transform Your Team and Results
May 2025 | Success, Secrets, and Stories
The Intentional Nonprofit Executive: Strategies for Sustainable Leadership
June 2025 | The Nonprofit Show
Leveraging the Power of Co-Creation with Dr. Patrick Farran
July 2025 | Productive Joy
Purpose, Agency, and the Real Work of Leadership with Dr. Patrick Farran
August 2025 | Leadership From The Heart
Work Matters S6E6: Patrick Farran – The Power of Co-Creation
August 2025 | The Work Matters Podcast
Inviting Input: A conversation about co-creating the workplace
November 2025 | Comfy Chairs
Leadership Development
Intention vs. Impact: The Hidden Cost to Your Relationships
We all want to be judged on our intention. Instead, we're judged on our impact.In a recent coaching conversation, my client Jessica shared her frustration about a deteriorating relationship with Maya, her direct report of nine years. "Something's up with Maya, and...
Leadership User Manuals: The Simple Tool That Transforms Team Dynamics
User manuals should evolve as you learn and grow. They're meant to facilitate understanding and communication, not create rigid rules or expectations.In my years of coaching senior leaders through transitions and transformations, I've noticed a common challenge: teams...
What We Mean By Trust—And How Leaders Can Grow It
Most of us think of trust as a single factor: you either have it or you don’t. But that way of thinking is too simplistic. In reality, we trust the people in our lives in different ways and for different purposes. “I’ll take a look at that tomorrow,” a former...
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Team Development
The Power of WE
As leaders, we create the WE for our teams, building a safe space, a sense of belonging and a group of peers with whom we will achieve great things. A few years ago, my oldest child shared that they were transitioning and would prefer to use a new name and new...
Undertaking an Active Listening Tour to Help Create a High-Performing Team
When your listening is authentic and active, it can have a powerful impact on performance. Can you recall a time in your life when you were asked for your opinion on a matter, and it was quite apparent that the person asking really didn’t have any interest in what you...
Remote Work Is Here To Stay. Three Keys To Building High-Performing Virtual Teams.
This article was originally published on Forbes.com and is cross-posted here with permission. The original article can be found here. Remote work is here to stay, so now is the time to get really good at it. Five in 10 remote workers say they don’t want to go back to...
3 Simple Ways to Build Trust in Virtual Teams
Trust is a two-way street. You may wonder what your team is doing all day, but your employees may question the same thing of you. Early tomorrow morning your team will present a big proposal to the company CEO. As the leader, you’ve overseen every bit of this...
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Organizational Strategy
Growing Your Business During Times Of Change
Whether an attempt to shift company culture, an effort to re-brand, or simply a change in processes, many company-wide change efforts are met with apathy or resistance. When employees are hesitant to accept new ways of working, feel uninvolved, or lack a sense of...
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Workplace Culture
Two-thirds of US Workers Say They’ve Experienced Incivility on the Job— Here’s How to Check Yourself
"A leader’s job is to remove the obstacles to productive work—that includes rooting out incivility and replacing it with a culture of generous and supportive communication." New research from SHRM revealed that two-thirds of the 1000 US workers surveyed have...
“What Have You Done For Me Lately?” Confessions From a Non-Profit Board Member
I recently found myself hesitating when a community organization I'm involved with asked for my support as a volunteer board member. I recently found myself hesitating when a community organization I'm involved with asked for my support as a volunteer board member....
What Your Team Needs More This Year Than Ever Before
"I’ve consulted in organizations around the world for nearly two decades now, but I’ve never seen the need for care or support be as pronounced as it is now." The CEO who appeared on my Zoom screen looked exhausted. We were supposed to be coordinating on an executive...
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Career Development
The Complete Guide to Job Search Networking
Whether you’re in transition or looking to leap into a larger role, the secret to finding the right opportunity lies less with an “optimized resume” and more with an expanded network. Whether you’re in transition or looking to leap into a larger role, the secret to...
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Personal Growth
Overcoming Life’s Performance Plateaus
Here are 10 steps to break through performance plateaus in each area of your life. Some 20 years ago, I fell prey to the boiling frog syndrome, finding myself in a significant state of imbalance between my work patterns and my personal health. After our second child,...
Work / Life Balance is an ill-conceived notion
The concept of work/life balance implies an either-or competition between the two. You are either working or you are living. If you think about it, that’s a pretty morbid way to consider our time at work. Work-Life Integration as Alternate Framework A healthier...
Staying Resilient: Practicing Gratitude and Learning to Pivot in Times of Crisis
March, 2020 This past Friday, I unexpectedly made a 9-hour round trip to pick-up my son, Jonah, from college at the University of Illinois. The original plan was for him to take the train and rendezvous with my parents in Chicago overnight, before taking a connecting...
10 lessons from life and work in the time of coronavirus
I’m not going to lie. This was a hard week. I’ve been working with several non-profits whose funding streams have been critically damaged. I’ve been advising start-up founders who are trying to figure out how to weather this storm. And I’ve been feeling the weight of...
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Communication Skills
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