by Michelle Doerr | Sep 8, 2026 | Leadership
My book, What Passion Costs, explores passion extraction and what it takes to build a workplace people and the system both own, and I built it around a leadership habitats framework. Next week, I’ll be standing behind that framework at a booth at the Association...
by Michelle Doerr | Aug 11, 2026 | Leadership, Wellness
We can’t steward what we can’t see — leaders cannot protect their own capacity, sustain their teams, or lead a culture well until they’ve first built real leadership self-awareness. That belief came into clear focus during a recent leadership...
by Michelle Doerr | Jun 10, 2026 | Leadership, Outdoor, Wellness
How conservation leadership culture silences the experiences that sustain it Picture a campfire. Not as metaphor yet. Just the thing itself. Imagine a circle. Everyone is equally distant from the center, with no head of the table, no podium, and no raised platform....
by Michelle Doerr | May 19, 2026 | Leadership, Wellness
Why leadership capacity and human capacity are not the same thing Conservation organizations typically evaluate leadership capacity by measuring performance, adaptability, and output. But leadership capacity and regenerative capacity are not the same thing. In...
by Michelle Doerr | Apr 29, 2026 | Leadership
Why High-Performing Teams Still Have an Encouragement Deficit Most leaders believe they are motivating their team. They celebrate successes in team meetings, send the “great job” email, and recognize the employee of the month. However, people are tired, disconnected,...
by Michelle Doerr | Jun 17, 2025 | Leadership, Wellness
Let’s be real. Some days, it feels easier to push emotions down, check off the boxes, and pretend everything’s fine. That emotional silence was the norm in my family—and, as it turns out, also the unspoken rule in much of my conservation career. But it’s costing us...
