The Asbury Group

We are excited to introduce the Conscious Leadership 360° Personal Insight Plan (CL 360°) — a groundbreaking approach to leadership development, designed with our partners at Evók, that goes beyond performance evaluation and into who someone is being as a leader. Most 360° tools were built around a flawed premise: measure performance, flag what's broken, and hand leaders a report full of anxiety and no real path forward. People leave feeling judged — unsure what to do next and with no agency...

Written By Anika Apple Several years back, I volunteered to lead a project to redesign the corporate office where our business unit’s leadership team was based. It surprised most people that I offered to lead, given that my background was in HR and various general manager roles. Admittedly, I am no expert in interior design, project management, or any of the other disciplines that have natural synergy with office renovations. But there was one exception, the crucial element of culture, that...

Written by Pascale Bourne There is a quiet epidemic happening in organizations across the country. Leaders are withholding the very thing their people need most — honest, direct, meaningful feedback — because somewhere along the way, we confuse being nice with being kind. They are not the same thing. As Brené Brown reminds us in her work on vulnerability and leadership, clear is kind and unclear is unkind. Nice is performative. Nice prioritizes comfort over growth. Nice smiles in the meeting,...