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Imagine you just landed the job you always wanted. The perfect location, the perfect brand, and what seems like the perfect path to success. But there is one catch: it is day one, and you are now the leader of a 250-person team. You only know one person, and that is someone you met walking in from the parking lot. The smells are different, the energy is unfamiliar, and it all marks the beginning of a new adventure. You walk in with your head held high, full of optimism, ready

Well, it may be what opens doors at the end of the day, but the title does not define a leader. Being the "perfect leader" isn’t something you arrive at, it’s something you grow into through perspective shifts and lived experience. It is also ultimately not driven only by factors such as title. Yes, the corporate ladder is a real thing, but I think that finding a real "why" and working hard to grow others around you will come back tenfold down the line. Do you believe in karm

Let me ask you: how do you show up every day, not only for yourself, but for the people around you? While this is a question many of us consider, I think many of us think of the why before the how . In reality, the how is what shapes our why . Let me explain my reasoning on this… Is the glass half empty or half full? Are you buried, or are you planted? Is it an alarm clock you face every day, or is it an opportunity clock? Hopefully you have an open mind to see where I’m go

You see, I could have started this blog with something relating directly to this week’s discussion on transactional vs. transformational leadership, but instead, I give you this staircase. A staircase that seemingly doesn't end every time that I take it... This staircase represents something to me. It's the staircase from the parking lot that I so willingly choose to park in. Being that this is my last semester at San Diego State University, you would think I would know the b

As we dive into another week of leadership styles and theories, this week we are going take a closer look into a theory that almost mixes the theories from past blog posts all together... and it is contingency theory! I think that this theory is one that has the most potential of being applied in relevant everyday situations. In a nutshell, contingency theory is leading with the perspective that everybody is going to have a different maturity level and that you must adapt to

The bottle has been uncorked... You've made it to #3 of this multi part series and blog with my take and my perspective on leadership. This week we're going to talk about. Behavior Theory. As we learned about this theory, my brain kept going to the parallel of leadership and the life of a bottle of wine. Not just for the fun effects it may bring, but appreciating the time and effort that it took to get to the store shelf. You see, wine isn't just produced overnight and bot

If you read last week’s blog, you got a small glimpse into some aspects of my perspective on leadership and, in my eyes, what matters most in this life. This blog will continue to be a culmination of thoughts and my perspective on a set of weekly topics that, hopefully, can shed light on what makes us all better leaders in our own lives. This week, we are going to dive into the notion of trait theory: the idea that effective leaders share certain identifiable characteristics.

Being a human is a unique thing. After all, like Gary Vaynerchuk says, the likelihood of being born is less likely than the chances of being a tree and I find beauty and peace in knowing this. Being 25, living in San Diego and about to enter the 'real world' as a working professional is another unique thing. You see, my perspective on life may come across a little different than most as I have had many moments of grit and adversity to get to where I am today... Many things bo