Discerning Insights About Leadership

Our President & CEO Daniel Cellucci's weekly email, the DIAL: Discerning Insights About Leadership.

Foster Familiarity

Discerning Insights About Leadership

Have you ever had a conversation with someone you just met, and it feels like you’ve known them forever? Recently, I had the chance to finally visit a longtime friend of the organization I had never met. I wasn’t looking for a gif...

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Discerning Insights About Leadership

I never have a problem admitting when I am wrong. It helps that I rarely believe I am wrong. Recently, I felt like I was wronged by a vendor, and I knew - I just knew - the facts would prove me right. So, I did whatever a seemingl...

Seek and Find

Discerning Insights About Leadership

An unusually long week of travel out west happened to come during an even longer season of spiritual desolation. It was nothing serious; rather, it was a lingering sense of distance from the Lord. Over dinner with some of our long...

Not So Fast, Food

Discerning Insights About Leadership

On a recent flight, a rare on-time departure was quickly trumped by the ever-frustrating inability to disembark the plane due to some undisclosed issue. Forty-seven minutes after pulling into our gate, I tried to zig and zag aroun...

Omnia Omnibus

Discerning Insights About Leadership

Over a decade ago, I traveled practically every week to South Florida for a work project. So, during my recent trip to Miami, I decided to go to Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of St. Mary where I was instantly re-immersed into what ...

The Meaning of Cade

Discerning Insights About Leadership

It’s been a while since the extended Cellucci family welcomed a new baby. So, as we awaited the birth of my younger brother’s first child, we began the wagering to see what this new addition to our clan would be called. A few week...

The Easy Narrative

Discerning Insights About Leadership

We’ve been blessed to welcome a lot of new team members to Catholic Leadership Institute over the last few years. I was recently sitting in a meeting in which we were discussing some aspects of our ministry. A new colleague asked ...

When She Speaks

Discerning Insights About Leadership

The entirety of my professional career has been spent in the non-profit world - specifically in the Church - so I’m very aware that my perspective is limited. However, I’ve observed that most of us struggle to speak well. Whether ...

The Brotherly Shove

Discerning Insights About Leadership

I have never been, nor will I ever be, a crowd person. You will never see me at Times Square on New Year’s Eve. It takes a miracle to get me to Disney World. Yet somehow, I found myself amongst the hundreds of thousands of pilgrim...

White Smoke Waiting

Discerning Insights About Leadership

Once a year, we gather our entire team and Board of Directors for a time of prayer, formation, and fellowship. With close to 80 people now, it’s no small logistical feat and requires months of planning to make sure it’s the best u...

The Trips We Can’t Plan

Discerning Insights About Leadership

Ever since the Vatican announced Blessed Carlo Acutis’ April canonization, I’ve been planning our trip to Rome. With four kids who have unsophisticated palettes and endurance issues, I was determined to make the trip both meaningf...

Talent Show

Discerning Insights About Leadership

For weeks, our dinnertime conversation was dominated by my eldest’s monologues about her upcoming high school talent show. Annie and her friends were planning the event as a primary fundraiser for their annual mission drive. This ...

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