As a leader, you know you want to inspire action rooted in your values – but it can be easy to get bogged down in tools and best practices. While each tool adds to the development of people and teams, understanding the threads that tie people and organizations together and working to uncover deep motives led us down a path of exploring values – specifically how our values shape, align and move us as individuals and teams.

How often do you talk about love in your work? It's historically been relegated to the realm of personal life, but we'd argue that love actually plays a central role in any great work and our great work together

Meaningful multilingual engagement is our baseline for work. After all, what’s the point in doing work in a community if it doesn’t speak to that community? But simple translation doesn’t go far enough –– we need the people we work with to truly understand the nuances of the conversation.

Could choosing a word shape your year? We think so. This year, our team chose Evolve, and we will be harnessing the power of a single word to be the arc over time toward a better, more advantageous version of ourselves.

The truth is, sometimes your work life requires more of you, and sometimes your home life requires more. If your goal is to make sure that everything is 50/50, all the time, you will constantly be trying to shift something, and that takes so much energy

How do you square that circle of having a number of first priorities? You pick two. We have started a “You Pick Two” policy at PointNorth, inspired by the simplicity and focus framing of the Panera Bread menu.