Companies and leaders keep bringing me the same question lately: how do we get our people to take ownership? For as long as I can remember, this has been a challenge, but it has come up more frequently in recent years. It comes up in almost every executive conversation. There is a real struggle w...

If you’d told me I’d be speaking in front of tens of thousands of people over the years, I honestly would have laughed in your face. I was a painfully shy kid. Public speaking terrified me. I had zero training, no natural gifts, and genuinely believed some people were just born with the ability t...