Dame Leadership Announces New Chapter for Evolution Conference
CAMP HILL, Pa. — Dame Leadership announced a new chapter for the Evolution Conference during Evolution26 on September 29, sharing that The High Center will assume leadership of the annual event beginning in 2027. The announcement was made by Dame Leadership Founder John Dame and President & CEO Ed Dame alongside Michael Mitchell, Executive Director […]
Read MoreTake the Time to Prepare: Why Great Meetings Don’t Happen by Accident
This message from Ed is a few years old, but the advice still holds true: great meetings do not happen by accident. Most meetings don’t fail because of bad ideas. They fail because no one took the time to prepare. It’s easy to walk into a meeting with a general sense of the topic […]
Read More2026 Leadership Evolution Project Class
Congratulations To This Year’s 2026 Leadership Evolution Project Class Dame Leadership is happy to announce this year’s Leadership Evolution Project Class: Amber Kovack Manager of Agency Support, Penn National Insurance Amber Kovack is the Manager of Agency Support at Penn National Insurance, where I lead agency lifecycle management and distribution strategy across a multi-state footprint […]
Read MoreDevelop Leaders Who Are Truly Present
Picture this: three people sitting together at a diner, having a conversation. Two of them are looking at their phones. The person talking is speaking into a void — present in the room, but largely alone in the exchange. It’s a scene that has become so common we barely notice it anymore. And that normalization […]
Read MoreAI Is Changing the Assessment Landscape — But Here’s What Still Matters Most
There’s a question leaders are increasingly asking us: “With AI in the mix, can we still trust what assessments tell us?” It’s a fair question — and an important one. AI is reshaping talent management faster than most organizations can keep up with. According to Hogan Assessments’ 2025 trend report, the pervasiveness of AI-driven tools […]
Read MorePress Release: Dame Leadership Grows Its Team
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 4, 2025 Dame Leadership Grows Its Team CAMP HILL, Pa – Dame Leadership is pleased to announce the addition of three new team members: Dave Cain as Leadership Consultant, Ashley Groft as Operations Manager, and Morgan Julius as Administrative Assistant. “These additions reflect our continued investment in people, leadership, and operational […]
How to Prioritize When Everything Feels Urgent
Stephen Covey observed that the key is not in spending time, but in investing it. Most leaders would agree with that statement immediately. And yet, for many of us, most weeks look a lot more like spending than investing. You know the feeling. Priorities come at you from every direction. You’re pulled from one urgent […]
Read MoreYour Culture Is Already Developing — The Question Is Whether You’re Leading It
Here is a truth that every leader eventually has to reckon with: your organization already has a culture. It existed before you articulated your values. It existed before you ran your first all-hands meeting or posted your mission statement on the wall. Culture isn’t something an organization creates — it’s something that emerges, continuously and […]
Read MoreHow to Have Real Conversations That Actually Change Things
You know a real conversation when you’ve had one. There’s a quality to it that’s hard to describe — a sense that something genuinely shifted, that perspectives were tested, that you left the exchange thinking differently than when you entered it. It’s rarer than it should be, and most leaders know it. At Dame Leadership, […]
Read MoreWhy Your Team Isn’t Communicating — And What to Do About It
You’ve built a team of capable, talented people. They show up, they work hard, and individually, many of them excel. But somewhere between the talent and the results, something breaks down. Projects stall. Misunderstandings surface. The same tensions keep re-emerging in different forms. And despite your best efforts to address it, the problem persists. In […]
Read More
