Toni Hernandez Brown North America

16/08/2018

Powerful lesson for managers, leaders, executives, founders, etc. If you lead people, then it’s a must-read.

Integrity is one of the greatest lessons I’ve learned in my work. I would argue it is one of the most important words in the English language.

A successful business man was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business. Instead of choosing one of his Directors or his children, he decided to do something different. He called all the young executives in his company together. He said, “It is time for me to...

03/01/2018

What does your day-to-day look like as a leader? Are you putting out fires? Managing people?
Or are you inspiring your team? Starting conversations that matter? Elevating your team through the core values that brought them to you?

04/12/2017

There is no better feeling than working with teams committed to staying true to their purpose. Today was a mindful marketing day in action.
Brilliant conversation with brilliant minds.

Oyl + Water is a champion for “never blending in”. They create beautiful meaningful content and experiences that elevate their clients’ brand and positions them as though leaders in their field.

16/11/2017

Cowford Realty & Design is transforming the way we do business not just in buying/selling homes but in making it your sanctuary. They’re in the business of “making people feel right at home”.

Any day spent with these game changers is a great day! And Beau got to hang out too!

08/11/2017

Be the kind of leader that when you speak people listen — because they want to not because they have to.

Read this and strengthen your gift of gab.

27/10/2017

Employees want to feel valued. They want to develop and grow personally and professionally. As leaders, we have a responsibility to create an environment that makes it difficult for your team to call it ‘work’.

What do you love most about where you work?

27/10/2017

Look around.

Does your space make your people fall in love with their work? Does it inspire them? Is breathable? Open and inspirational?

20/10/2017

Impactful leadership is a catalyst for greatness. Enjoy!

Robert Goffee and Gareth Jones, Europe's leading experts on organizational culture, leadership and change, discovered that inspirational leaders display the quality of selectively showing their weakness.

19/10/2017

I founded Toni Hernandez Brown North America with 5 intentional guiding principles; one being — Love your people hard. And they will love you back.

This afternoon, I found this sweet love note from a former employee, Hunter Daly. Unbeknownst to him, he inspired me to create The “Love Your People Hard” Campaign. Let the post-it be the new love note, especially in the workplace.

Create an environment where post-It’s are the norm. Leave a post it for a leader who inspires you.
Share it here if you want, and tell us why.

07/10/2017

Make an impact. Let that be your legacy.
“Because how you do one thing is how you do everything.”

06/10/2017

Body Pump Sweat Date with the fearless leaders at Cowford Realty & Design. Followed by a delicious post-sweat date at Community Loaves.

03/10/2017

Arianna Huffington addresses what has become — but shouldn't be — a cliché

26/09/2017

“What got us here won’t get us to the next level.” It’s all about self-reflection and disrupting the status quo. And it all starts down at the top.

Nice work Dara!

In just a few short sentences, Uber's new leader demonstrates the power of seeing the big picture.

12/09/2017

Grateful and honored to work with companies committed to building people-centric cultures in the workplace, developing leaders at work and life, and impacting the world through real meaningful human connection - with both, team and client.

Oyl + Water is a marketing boutique for beauty and lifestyle brands They exist to create beautiful, meaningful content and experiences that elevates clients’ brands and position them
as thought leaders in their field.

Toni Hernandez | Culture Engineer at Oyl + Water
http://oylandwater.com/about-us/about-toni-hernandez/

We create beautiful, meaningful content and experiences that elevate our

12/09/2017

Sweet and painful reminders of the important things in life.

05/09/2017

How will you show appreciation for your team today?

18/08/2017

Celebrating with Cowford Realty & Design's brilliant bosses — Grace Driscoll and Laney Smith — on business and personal milestones. Building a purposeful business and a life with mission and values at the core.

Cheers to making people feel right at home!

17/08/2017

Because we owe it to those who help us build our "Dream".

These powerful words pay huge dividends for your employees -- and for you.

15/08/2017

Bon Voyage Lunch celebration for Oyl + Water's brilliant and go-getter intern, Alyssa Starks. She's off to London and packing some cool lessons learned from this crew. She raised the bar and left this team better off.

"The breezes at dawn have so much to tell.
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across of the doorsill where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep! "
- Rumi

10/08/2017

A creative exchange with some of Arbus Magazine's brilliant contributors. A discussion on elevating Arbus's purpose, manifesting a powerful company manifesto, and taking it from good to great.

07/08/2017

Simon Sinek is one of my personal inspirations. He is the author of some of my favorite leadership books, including my current read "Leaders Eat Last".

I spent part of this weekend preparing content for culture trainings that I will deliver this week. I couldn't help but think that leaders are our modern day classroom teachers - you have the ability to impact not just the wσrkplace, but the єvєrч dαч-place. Speaking of education purveyors - I attribute my success to my 7th grade English teacher, Mr. Mark Flannery and Sophomore Physics Professor Dr. Meziani. Whether they know it or not - they shaped how I think, behave and see the world. They both had a gift - they made me feel like I was the only one in that classroom. They made me feel like I mattered.
Funny thing is, today - grammar, punctuation, and spelling is my jam and it irks me when a semicolon is misused. At a stop light, I want to calculate the tension (T1, T2, T3) of the ropes. I know, weird. My point is: these two special people impacted my life — forever.

Leadership is no different. Leadership is about valuing people. It is about being a catalyst for greatness and changing the trajectory of someone's life because they had an opportunity to learn from you. Remember - good or bad, you're someone'ѕ dinner time conversation. мαкє ιт α gσσ∂ σиє!

"How leaders choose to treat their people impacts everything—for better or for worse. Great leaders sacrifice their own comfort – even their own survival – for the good of those in their care. This principle has been true since the earliest tribes of hunters and gatherers. It’s not a management theory; it’s biology."

Love you people hard,

Toni Hernandez

26/07/2017

When you value people, it shows — from face-to-face interactions to evaluations. Going from good to great doesn't happen by chance.



Excerpt from Brené Brown's New York Bestseller Daring Greatly.

24/07/2017

Hire only the best.
Hire for purpose.
Hire for passion.

23/07/2017

Cafe De Monde • Hello Beauty Full • Doglover | Leadership and Culture training with the bosses of Cowford Realty & Design | Laney Smith & Grace Driscoll

Inspired by this company's Purpose Statement: Cowford Realty & Design exist to make people feel right at home.

14/07/2017

Check out Arbus Magazine's Marcom July / August 2017 Issue. Toni Hernandez writes an Open Letter to Business Owners: Start With Why.

Remember why you started. Let your Purpose Statement unapologetically state your WHY. Create a culture that elevates it. Hire people only who align with it.

http://arbus.com/start-with-why/

Start with Why. Let it live on the landing page of your website, at the beginning of an interview process, on the front cover of the employee handbook, in staff meeting content and training sessions, in client proposals. Most importantly, let it come alive in the workplace culture. Your “Why” is why...

27/06/2017

Great leaders have the ability to change the trajectory of our lives. There is a ripple effect, oftentimes, unbeknownst to you. Make no mistake, you have the ability to impact generations.

Great leaders are change agents. They become great not because of their power but because they empower others.

They listen. They coach. They are transparent. They practice straight-talk. They earn your trust.

In turn, your people practice listening, lead with candor, recognize that transparency is a key ingredient in trajectory-changing leadership. And as a result of YOU, they are better mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, mates and friends.

YOU are someone's dinner time conversation.

19/06/2017

I once read "if you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room." The key to success is to hire smarter than you. Then be smart enough to get out of their way and let them do their job.

Be clear with the intention and the expectation.

Love your people hard,
Toni Hernandez

15/06/2017

Dear Leaders of businesses and organizations:

One of my favorite qualities of great leadership is intentional listening. So much so, that I promised to model after those who inspired me. I haven't nailed it AND I'm grateful for the awareness when I'm not practicing it. My first mentor would say: if you have awareness, then you can shift any behavior.

Over the years of leading teams, I learned this to be true. I've also learned that as I develop my teams, they develop me. Professionally and personally, I grew the most when my team generously shared feedback — I admit, some, hard to swallow. Also, the most innovative ideas came from them.

So listen with intention and without interruption.

Love your people hard,

Toni Hernandez

14/06/2017

Invest in your people. Leave them better than when you met them. Be that kind of leader.

12/06/2017

Our fearless leader, Toni Hernandez, featured in March/April issue of Arbus Magazine. She shares why visionaries are her favorite kind of people, core values are important, and leadership training is critical to the health and wealth of the organization.

http://arbus.com/9096-2/

Toni Hernandez-Brown is a people developer, risk-taker, culture change agent, and lover of a sweaty workout. She is most passionate about visionaries, human connection, and companies who invest deeply in the development of their people. She is also the founder of Leading Ladies 904.