Top Quotes:
“You don’t reach out to a coach because everything’s going well.” – Jerry Colonna
“When folks who are in positions of power aren’t willing to do their inner work, the consequence is that we create organizations unconsciously that are designed to make ourselves feel better about ourselves. And we spread toxicity throughout organizations.” – Jerry Colonna
“I don’t set out to ask people to cry, but I believe that we need to feel our feelings. And I believe that many of us, because we don’t feel our feelings, the predominant feeling that we are not feeling as sadness.” – Jerry Colonna
“When we have power and don’t examine these things. We will often outsource to somebody else within the organization all of the negative parts of ourselves that we don’t want to own.” – Jerry Colonna
“How do you unlock the specialness of an organization that’s good at the heart of what’s really going on within the organization?” – Jerry Colonna
“The mess in me honors the mess in you.” – Jerry Colonna
“One of the dangers of actually starting to unpack ourselves is that we start to use it as yet another source of self-loathing and self-criticism.” – Jerry Colonna
“We don’t do use discernment and insight to understand the way in which we are operating in the world only to beat ourselves up. That’s not the point.” – Jerry Colonna
“What if those who were in power set a tone and modeled something different? What if those who held leadership positions actually said, it’s not just my responsibility to produce profit, but to create humane working environments so that the best of us can thrive.” – Jerry Colonna
“Leading through fear can produce extraordinary results in short bursts, but at what cost? The best people will leave if that’s the sustained model.” – Jerry Colonna
“When those who have power don’t tell us what’s going on, we make shit up and it’s about us.” – Jerry Colonna
“Not every negative feeling in the workplace or your community or is in fact a reflection of how broken you are.” – Jerry Colonna
“What do those who are around me need to thrive?” – Jerry Colonna
