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Trying times call for our best selves

By: Gretchen M. Spreitzer

Topic(s): Positive Meaning & Purpose


For more than ten years, I have been working with students of all ages (from high school and college students to senior executives) to help them identify and leverage their best selves. The Reflected Best Self Exercise is a process that involves asking others for stories of times when the students were their very best […]

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