Brian Schroller
Soundtrack

One of my best friends from college, Scot, used to talk about how he wished he had a soundtrack for his life that would play as he meandered through.  Before digital music, that was a bit of an impossibility, but now, you could almost cobble together some version of that if you liked…

Soundtrack
Brian Schroller
Quitting

We are working with a company on the back end of cleaning up an incredible mess.  Unknown to them, two key employees seem to have “quiet quit” many months before they actually left.  Like a college student going through the motions for an entire semester, fooling everyone but themselves, the report card at the end of the term was a sobering reality to those who didn’t know…

Quitting
Brian Schroller
Cairn

I met with a leader of a large company before their annual offsite. We were scripting the event, and I wanted to help him create an introductory statement of where he felt they were and how he thought they were doing. He struggled mightily to say much good…

Cairn
Brian Schroller
Embody

Sometimes when we work with a senior leader with a struggling area of their business, they are forced to make a leadership change. They level all their efforts on getting a proper replacement. But rather than hastily making the new hire, we often ask them to embody the role of the exiting leader for a season as a first step…

Embody
Brian Schroller
Personified

While filmmakers Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz visited a friend at a camp for people with developmental challenges, they encountered a man with Down's Syndrome named Zack. They talk about being completely overwhelmed by his love and confidence in his identity…

Personified

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Process

Process

Who wouldn’t be anxious?  After twenty years of launching and then fathering a not-for-profit to significant maturity and impact, it was time to find a replacement.  It takes incredible maturity and humility to step aside from all that you’ve created… to believe that ultimate success and long term viability of the enterprise requires another at the helm.  Many founders or entrepreneurs never find the temerity of spirit to reach this point.  Of the few that do, most find it difficult to actually let go.