Ideas we're realizing together
Insights on life, learning, and growth from Mindel Solutions—connecting real challenges with thoughtful ideas and a practical, lived approach to emotionally intelligent leadership.
We're working to realize these ideas in both senses of the word: deepening understanding and bringing them into practice. In our events and programs, they move from insight into experience—explored, tested, and brought to life through real conversations.
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A Future That Puts People First — SSH in the Solution Space
The Social Sciences and Humanities have knowledge critical for shaping a future that puts people first. But knowledge sitting in journals and conference rooms doesn't change anything. The missing piece is SSH researchers joining practitioners in the solution space — and a proven model showing exactly how.
The Millstone Strategy: How to Stand Out When Everyone Looks the Same
Employers are drowning in AI-polished applications that all say the right things. The edge doesn't come from a better resume — it comes from being what others are only appearing to be. Here's the creativity move that changes everything about how you show up.
Leadership is what you do under pressure
I started out thinking leadership was about knowing what to do. Read the books. Understand the models. Figure it out. But when pressure hit, I almost never did what I thought I had learned to do.
Do you protect results or people?
Some team meetings can be quite dramatic. The arena is packed. The lights are blinding. The crowd is roaring. When the stakes are high, do you protect people or results?
Free parking and other measures of human flourishing
“How many sheep does your skyscraper hold?” Sounds ridiculous — until you understand what human flourishing means to the person asking. Dismiss the question, and miss the need underneath it. How will this work for me? Will my needs be met? Can I belong here?
New hires enter at the middle
Power skills are the passport for entry at the middle. How do they impact your organization? When and how are they being learned today? What are we missing?
Why conscious leadership takes time — and why it's worth it
Some days your career can feel like a series of holes dug out and filled in.
Victory or Fulfillment?
In the opener to The Infinite Game, Simon Sinek positions Victory and Fulfillment as alternatives. Can you have both? Make your numbers AND become someone worth being?
Science as Improv?
When the stakes are high, the problems complex, and the goals audacious, the playful improvisational power of YES AND… enables a group to heap up a pile of ideas that keep getting more nuanced and inspired as things roll.