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About the Author Gregg Cochlan is a leadership coach, strategic change architect, and performance management consultant. As founder and president of the consulting firm Thinc, and proud affiliate of The Pacific Institute, Gregg has helped industry leaders deal with the challenges of change since 1986. His experience and cutting edge thinking enables leaders to evaluate their organizations and successfully effect change. Gregg's extensive coaching and strategic planning experience with corporations in private and public sectors includes clients in such diverse arenas as grain handling, government, the pharmaceutical industry, telecommunication, and not-for-profit organizations. Over the years, many of his clients have evolved into Love Leaders, and report profoundly higher rates of employee involvement, accountability and goal achievement, along with extraordinary improvements to their bottom line. A native Canadian, Gregg and his wife Sandra live in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan with their three children: Katelyn, Avery and Brogen. |
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Excerpt from Chapter 2: A couple of years ago, one of my colleagues at The Pacific Institute was working with a group of young people who were caught up in the ongoing gang violence in Los Angeles. At one point, they took a break, and this colleague went for a walk with a participant, a 15-year-old girl. When the teenager paused to look at a red dress in a store window, my colleague thought she heard the girl say, "I'm going to get married in a red dress." Puzzled, she asked, "You mean girls don't want to get married in a white dress any more?" The girl looked at her with surprise and said, "I didn’Äôt say "married." I said ’Äòburied’Äô." As my colleague stood there stunned, the girl went on to tell her, ever so matter-of-factly, everything she had imagined for her funeral - who would be there, who would serve as pallbearers, what songs would be sung, what eulogy she wanted them to say, and what her friends would be doing. In her world, funerals of youths like herself were taking place every day. For her, this kind of outcome to her young life was normal. Clearly what we need now is a new normal! More information, excerpts and photos at www.loveleadership.com |
