Creating Courageous Company Cultures

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Purpose

Creating Employee Connection in a Disconnected World

To avoid disconnection turning into disengagement, resulting in lower productivity and higher churn, leaders need new ways to create employee connection—ways that inspire employees to push for more connection, not less.

Kelsey Schurer, Executive Editor, Round Table Companies

The Opportunity for Purpose to Redefine Your Identity

We define ourselves in many ways—by our professions, by our relationships, by our belief systems, and beyond. And then, once a decade, the way we see ourselves is broken into pieces.

Corey Blake, CEO Round Table Companies

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Your Purpose Is Your Story

Your purpose in this world is a version of your story. Discover your purpose, then discover the journey you took toward finding it.

Kelsey Schurer, Executive Editor, Round Table Companies

Core Values

Creating Employee Connection in a Disconnected World

Kelsey Schurer, Executive Editor, Round Table Companies

The Most Critical Factor in Making [or Breaking] Your Brand with Delivering Happiness

What is the single most important thing you can do for your brand? Build a strong company culture, of course!

Delivering Happiness

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Love-First Leadership: Creating Deeper Connections in the Workplace

Leaders who adopt a love-first leadership style experience more emotional engagement and connection with their teams and employees. Here, we offer five techniques to help you lead with love.

Kelsey Schurer, Executive Editor, Round Table Companies

Psychological Safety

High-Performance Teams Rely on Pressure and Psychological Safety

High-performance teams thrive amidst pressure that keeps them at their edge, while relying on psychological safety to go faster and further together.

Kelsey Schurer, Executive Editor, Round Table Companies and more

Setting Boundaries in the Workplace

In this podcast with Estie Rand, Corey not only shares his incredibly moving and relatable story, but he also explains the law of vulnerability, which takes people’s weakest points and helps reframe them as strengths and gifts.

Corey Blake, CEO Round Table Companies

How Even the Most Principled Leaders Lose Sight of Their Dialogue, and How Empathy Offers Hope

Empathy. It starts with truly listening and then grows from there.

Lori Darley, CEO & Founder, Conscious Leaders

Storytelling Academy

This Academy Is a Masterpiece

When we started this work on the Academy, I did not think I would be contributing to a masterpiece, or to hundreds and hundreds of them—all worthy of a portrait to be painted, a story to be shared.

Kelsey Schurer, Executive Editor, Round Table Companies

Long Before the Academy, I Heard its Call to Adventure . . .

Be the artist I seek. Corey Blake heard his call to adventure long before he accepted it. As founder and CEO of Round Table Companies, Corey tells us why he believes Round Table Storytelling Academy is his 250-year-contribution to the long arc of time.

Corey Blake, CEO Round Table Companies

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The Power of Listening: Mary’s Academy Testimonial

When Mary joined the Academy, she landed in a safe and supportive storytelling environment where participants listened intently.

Mary Rogers, Writer