Red Tree Leadership – Growth Starts in the Moment

Several years into my career, I was working in a massive Staples distribution center — a million-square-foot warehouse that pulsed with motion. I was an

This Leadership People First Story takes me back to my time at Staples. I met Louis when we were both running e-commerce operations. I managed

Christmas Eve, 2010 At 4:30 p.m., I was finally home with my family. That year, we’d invited everyone to stay at our house, and the

This is a leadership self-awareness story I’ll never forget. I was about 27 when I got invited to The Leadership Challenge — a big-deal development

My first role as a Director came unexpectedly for most — but exactly as I’d planned for myself. I was the West Coast Engineering Manager,

Have you ever been to a track meet? A lot is happening — sprinters running, people jumping, and still others throwing objects in the distance.

A few years into my first Director role, I thought I was unstoppable. I had taken one of the worst-performing operations in the network and

This Leadership Consistency Story begins in my small mountain community in Southern California — the kind of town where everyone waves, the post office closes

This Leadership Awareness Story comes from my first year at Kohl’s — a year I’ll never forget.I was responsible for a one-million-square-foot warehouse in Southern

In the early 2000s, after turning around a struggling warehouse, I was given the chance to open and run a brand-new, one-million-square-foot distribution center for

I got a call from Oakley one spring — they wanted help with some engineering and leadership consulting at one of their Southern California facilities.

A few years out of college, I was working as an industrial engineer in a massive 24/7 warehouse. My days blurred into nights — timing

This Leadership Humility Story began many years ago, when I was invited to speak to the company’s Loss Prevention team — a group of about