by Susan Andrews | Feb 22, 2024 | Making Change, News
Do you sometimes react defensively when faced with challenging feedback? If so: You are human. We invite you to join our breakout session titled “The Silver Lining: Learning from Challenging Feedback and Your Reactions to It” at this year’s Momentum...
by Susan Andrews | Dec 10, 2023 | Courageous Leadership, Dare to Lead
Enrollment is open for our February 2024 cohort! Click here to register. What is a leader? Brené Brown defines a leader as someone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who has the courage to develop that potential. What is a...
by Susan Andrews | Feb 13, 2022 | Courageous Leadership, News, Values
Join us at the 2022 Momentum Conference in Birmingham on March 16th and 17th. We will be facilitating a breakout session we know will resonate in these challenging times: “Calm in the Storm: Acting from Your Values When the Going Gets Tough.” Attendees...
by Susan Andrews | May 16, 2021 | Courageous Leadership, Dare to Lead
Enrollment is open for our Fall 2021 cohort! Click here to register. Do you want to become a more courageous leader – someone who can initiate difficult conversations, make the best decision even when it’s unpopular, and choose what is right over what is easy? Then...
by Julie McDonald | May 5, 2021 | Women We Admire
For the May segment of our Women We Admire series, we talked with JaWanda Jackson, owner of JaWanda’s Sweet Potato Pies. Each month, we interview and promote the work of a Woman of Color who exemplifies strong leadership. We enjoyed hearing JaWanda’s story and look...
by Julie McDonald | Apr 29, 2021 | Nonprofit Spotlight
REV Birmingham is this month’s nonprofit in the spotlight. Each month we honor an amazing nonprofit that provides much-needed services to our community. We are big fans of REV and love seeing the actions they are taking to revitalize Birmingham. We enjoyed...
by Julie McDonald | Apr 28, 2021 | Women We Admire
For the April segment of our Women We Admire series, we talked with Dekia Scott, Chief Investment Officer for Southern Company. Each month, we interview and promote the work of a Woman of Color who exemplifies strong leadership.
by Julie McDonald | Apr 11, 2021 | Building Trust, Dare to Lead
Trust has been the theme of our newsletters over the past two months and it has me thinking about trust within our own company. We have a “small-but-mighty” team at McDonald Graham, and as I have reflected about the trust we have developed inside our company, I...
by Julie McDonald | Apr 4, 2021 | Building Trust, Difficult Conversations
Dear Drs. Graham and McDonald: Your recent trust-building posts have been helpful. But I’m wondering if you would help me apply that advice to a problem with an employee we recently recruited from another firm. The problem with this “rising star” is that she does a...
by Lisa Graham | Mar 28, 2021 | Building Trust
I was recently impressed by the integrity of an independent contractor my husband and I engaged. She works out of her home, and we gladly agreed to meet her there. But the day before our first appointment she called to say someone who had recently tested positive for...
