Strategic Grit: The Power of Experimentation + Discipline

2020 was tough and the global consensus was that it would be a welcome thing to move on to 2021. But when the calendar turned to 2021, things were still tough. Wait, what?!? Okay, as it turns [...]

  Lots of reading lately. 📚 These are fantastic! What do you recommend for 2021?  

Did your expectations for 2020 crash and burn? Don’t throw the smoking heap of unrealized goals and planning out! There are treasures buried there, including lots of learning and new insights. [...]

The high school fall football season just wrapped up in Iowa, and my son’s team made it to the semi-finals, losing to the team that ended up winning the state championship. The team and [...]

Strategic Grit with Jennifer and Holly Are you ready to not just plan but DO? In our introductory blog post we promised a springboard for clarifying the future you want to create and bringing it [...]

Hello! We’re Jennifer Horn-Frasier and Holly Adams, two consultants from the Midwest who use strategy and grit to help individuals, teams, and organizations create a clear vision of the success [...]

3 Ways to Prevent Uploading Responsibility You’ve probably heard the saying “Don’t bring me a problem without a solution.” And managers I know tell me that employees who are too quick to escalate [...]

Football is a relatively new experience for my son, who, at the high school level, chose to participate in the sport for the first time last year. Because I’m still learning too, I know he’s a [...]

Although released in 2018, I thought a book billed as the “antidote to chaos” would be prefect for my Summer 2020 reading list. The author, Jordan B. Peterson, wrote the book to expand on his [...]

Self-Awareness A pivotal moment in my self-awareness journey came several years ago during a heated discussion with a coworker. At the time, I was a Human Resources Manager attempting to point [...]