People-Forward Perspectives

ThriveAxis®, a leadership development consultancy based in Vancouver, Washington, was named a finalist in all three categories it entered at the 2026 Stevie Awards for Women in Business: Company of th...

What would your people change about how you lead?

This is a question I often ask the leaders I work with.

Not what they'd change about their jobs, their pay, or their projects. But about how you lea...

More than twenty years ago, as a graduate student, I argued that some of the leading theories of identity development shared one flaw. This summer, I made almost the same argument about leadership the...

Over the last six years or so, I've watched a steady trend of leaders finding less and less time to really lean into coaching and developing their people. It started as a rallying cry of middle manage...

For years, this firm carried my name. Carol Parker Walsh Consulting Group said exactly what it was when I started it: a practice built around me, my expertise, my reputation, my relationships. That na...

A few months ago, I decided to retire from my monthly second-Tuesday segments on AM Northwest. The timing felt right. After 29 years at the station, host Helen Raptis announced her own retirement, and...

Watch my AM Northwest segment on this topic at the end of the article for a quick summary.

There is a moment that my clients describe to me almost word-for-word.

It shows up in a meeting that ran to...

Watch my AM Northwest segment on this topic at the end of the article for a quick summary.

Most people enter leadership the same way. They were exceptional at their jobs, and someone rewarded them fo...