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As team leaders navigate new challenges in the modern workplace, nuanced resources like leadership blogs can educate and inspire managers to carve their own path in this new way of work.

The landscape of remote and hybrid models, diversity and inclusion programming, and workplace culture satisfaction, are no longer nice-to-haves but must-haves in order to retain and support your people. Plus, with an increasing 52 percent burnt out employees, leaders should revitalize their old way of doing things with a fresh perspective.

To help leaders keep up with trends and expert thought leadership, we rounded up 20 leadership blogs to help any manager in their journey to becoming a stronger, better leader in this new era.

1. People Managing People

People Managing People are passionate about creating and encouraging the best practices in leadership and management, company culture, employee engagement, and talent and human resource management. To do that, they created a platform for business leaders and HR professionals where they can gain access to expert-led discussions in the form of articles, podcasts, and videos as well as learn about the latest in HR software and join a community of passionate HR professionals.

2. The Leader’s Digest

Leadership Coach Suzi McAlpine has been a leader and senior executive, a headhunter, and a practice leader for one of the largest HR consulting firms in the world. Her award-winning blog The Leader’s Digest is a must read for entrepreneurs, offering leadership insights and practical advice to coach people leaders no matter where they are in their own journey.

3. Tanveer Naseer’s Blog

Tanveer Naseer is an internationally-acclaimed speaker, leadership expert, and author. Named by Inc. Magazine as one of the Top 100 Leadership and Management Experts, his leadership corporate training and consulting firm Tanveer Naseer Leadership works with top executives and managers to help with leadership development and team-building.

His website’s blog provides leadership insights from the art of listening in a multicultural team to conflict management. He also hosts the long running Leadership Biz Cafe, where he dives into the nuts and bolts of leadership with renown experts.

4. BLACK ENTERPRISE

BLACK ENTERPRISE is a premier business and investing publication for African Americans. Since 1970, BLACK ENTERPRISE served as an essential business resource, providing top business owners and executives with leadership advice and wealth building education.

Along with digital and physical distribution, BLACK ENTERPRISE highlights Black entrepreneurs in various industries, news, and lifestyle through broadcast productions, podcasts, and events. All of their outlets centers around the idea of wealth creation, and helping African Americans become active participants in wealth building in the global economy.

5. Ask a Manager

As a former chief of staff of a successful non-profit, Alison Green managed the hiring, firing, and all the nuances of workplace culture in between. Now, Alison works as a consultant, helping teams with the same topics she covers in her leadership blog Ask a Manager: from giving advice on how to communicate with your higher ups, how to put your best foot forward in the hiring process, and how to excel as an employee or employer.

Some of her favorite blog posts offer leadership skills on dealing with a difficult intern, what to do with a new person in a leadership role, and what to do if you’re not great with criticism. Her goal is candid advice and information, and Alison is refreshingly up front about her biases and how she prefers to manage. The blog is perfect for a newbie manager or one wanting a fresh perspective.

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6. Lolly Daskal’s Blog

Founder and CEO of Lead From Within, Lolly Daskal is one of the top executive leadership coaches in the world. Through her work with Lead From Within, she brings cross-cultural expertise to over 14 countries, six languages, and hundreds of organizations.

She’s a best-selling author of two leadership books, was named on of the Top-50 Leadership and Management Experts by Inc.com, and is one of the 100 Great Leadership Speakers by Inc. magazine. This is all to say that she’s a trusted expert on leadership. Her blog covers topics from being an introverted manager to how to cope with change exhaustion.

If you’re looking for a blog to help with current workplace trends and topics and growing as a manager, Lolly’s blog is a great resource for effective, actionable advice.

7. Leadership Freak

Boasting over 500,000 followers and subscribers, Dan Rockwell has written the popular Leadership Freak blog since 2010. He’s a speaker, author, and leadership expert, who coaches leaders and consults with organizations. Through his programs he helps teams manage remotely and leaders manage “while the house is on fire.”

According to the Center for Management and Organization Effectiveness, Leadership Freak is one of the most shared blogs across the Internet.

Unlike other leadership blogs with stock image photos of people and teams, Leadership Freak uses handmade memes with puppies and sunsets, creating a collage-like, welcoming home page. With 300-words per post, Dan covers everything from Charlotte’s Web author E.B. White’s perspective on hope to advice for career growth. The takeaway? There’s inspiration and leadership lessons from everywhere.

8. The Harvard Business Review

While the Harvard Business Review (HBR) is only published six times a year through a subsidiary of Harvard University, the digital and podcast side of HBR continues to provide a business lens to current events and trends affecting enterprises.

Startup founders and business school students should subscribe to this business blog to stay up-to-date on industry changes, expert takes and interviews, and to glean practical advice on the flowing trends of the workplace. Learn the next business trend, how to swap industries, or best practices for managing a remote team.

9. Leadershipnow

Leadershipnow is a go-to resource for many leaders around the globe. The publication’s mission is to guide those on the leadership track to think and see differently, in order to develop deeper, more empowered decision-making skills. Their digital outpost, The Leading Blog, covers leadership thinking, advice, and principles to challenge and grow their audience’s perspective on what makes a strong leader.

Michael McKinney of Leadershipnow creates fresh and actionable leadership content over compelling, relevant issues affecting teams today. The blog focuses on leadership, management, and personal development, boasting more than 650,000 web sessions per month.

10. Power to Fly’s Blog

Launched in 2015, Power to Fly is a women-led recruiting and retention platform focused on empowering underrepresented talent. Along with regular events, a weekly newsletter, video library, and mentors, Power Fly offers a blog resource directed towards women and intersectional leaders.

Blog categories include working from home, diversity and inclusion, and career advice. Posts provide a mix of media with text and video. Subjects can range from practical tips for hiring or managing. You’ll also see interviews from women and ally leaders in a range of industries.

11. Full Focus

Rebranded as Full Focus, Michael Hyatt and Company provides high-power coaching and corporate training for emerging leaders. The company’s blog seeks to support high-agility managers with growth and decision making.

The blog emphasizes ways leaders can commit to continuous growth and towards company success. Posts cover productivity, entrepreneurship, and professional development.

12. Kevin Eikenberry’s Blog

World renowned leadership expert and consultant Kevin Eikenberry has worked with Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and universities to help teams realize their true potential. By investing their time, energy, and focus through The Remarkable Leadership Learning System, Kevin leads teams through active participating in the resources for success.

As a two-time best selling author and coach, Eikenberry’s blog follows his philosophy in work and play— making both fun.Think posts about making work culture matter, interpersonal skills, and why we need to talk about procastination.

13. Red Shoe Movement

The Red Shoe Movement is the first women leadership development company powered by a community united to support women’s career success. They are focused on offering executive coaching and resources for multicultural women leaders.

From tackling imposter syndrome to defying stereotypes and gender bias, the Red Shoe Movement blog covers hard to tackle topics many working women face, along with accessible, informational posts on leadership from executives in the industry.

14. Skip Prichard’s Leadership Insights

Growth-oriented business leader, best selling author, and global keynote speaker, Skip Prichar' offers his industry expertise in his blog Leadership Insights. He’s the writer of the Wall Street Journal’s bestselling book, The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future, where he shares his expertise in change management and growth.

The Leadership Insights blog covers the importance of rest, navigating leadership transformations, and even accepting leadership. Posts embraces the idea of investing time and hard work, but also navigating it all in a meaningful way for future success (and not burnout).

15. Women on Business

The Women on Business blog is an award-winning online resource launched by Susan Gunelius, President & CEO of KeySplash Creative, Inc., a marketing and communications company that offers business and article writing.

The Women on Business blog covers topics to support and foster successful female entrepreneurship. Categories include leadership profiles, employee satisfaction, business partners, and more all to support women as they close the wage gap and make their mark.

16. Forbes

A leading publication in entrepreneurial and business success, Forbes provides a range of perspectives through their contributing writers, many of who are successful executives and thought leaders in their own industries .

The Forbes community covers everything from current workplace trends, world news, celebrity entrepreneurs, startup unicorns, and more. Leaders looking to get authentic and tangible takeaways from key names should follow and read.

17. Her Agenda

Her Agenda is an award winning digital media publication, covering the ambition, achievement, and magic of millennial women in business. Motivated to inspire and help career women in a world where women leaders are still overlooked in terms of promotions and raises, Her Agenda is a go-to resource for women leaders at any level.

Her Agenda’s platform seeks to inspire women at work and provide resources for upcoming scholarships, conferences, and job opportunities. Most interestingly, you can take a peek into the agenda of powerful women, join the Power Directory with other leaders throughout the country, and network through their events.

18. Risha Grant’s Blog

Along with being Founder & CEO of her consulting firm Risha Grant LLC, Risha Grant is a speaker, author, and world renowned inclusion and diversity expert whose passion, humor, and exuberance empowers students and attendees. Her diversity consulting and communications firm helps teams tackle unconscious bias, racism, classism, and inclusion for teams like Levis and Google.

Her company’s blog addresses all topics from inclusion to allyship, and is a great guide for leaders looking to consciously lead with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The blog itself is fun, edgy, and insightful, providing actionable advice and examples. It’s a prime resource for how organizations can create an inclusive, welcoming team which will in turn nurture successful leaders.

19. Zone of Genius

Launched by Ramon Ray, motivational speaker and expert on business growth, Zone of Genius aims to help leaders live fulfilled lives. Focused on personal development and embracing the “woo woo” means looking at your own past experiences and trauma to find the “zone” to live a better life.

Zone of Genius is a great leadership blog that focuses on helping the personal growth, whether that’s in mindset, family balance, money, and career. The goal is to develop a true relationship with life and not be overly transactional. And that is simply inspiring.

20. Inc.com

The U.S. Business magazine Inc might publish only six times a year, but Inc.com is a year-round resource for entrepreneurs and leaders looking for inspiration, a wide-range of business news, and spotlights on some of the best and brightest business leaders in the nation.

Known for its Inc 5000 list of privately owned, small business throughout the U.S., Inc.com captures the SaaS, startups, and local businesses making waves. It’s perfect for learning more about your industry and seeing real examples of business leaders breaking from the norm.

Closing Thoughts on Leadership Blogs

No matter where you are on your leadership journey, finding the right thought leader or leadership blog to inspire, motivate, and even challenge you, will support your growth as a new, modern leader.

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By Tim Reitsma

Tim has deep experience in HR, people & culture, leadership, business strategy and operations with a focus on building great teams who are excited about their craft and their organization. With over 15 years of leadership experience, Tim has always been guided by his core values: faith, family, curiosity, and fun. He is a coach, mentor, speaker, advisor, and an active volunteer in his community. Tim loves spending time outdoors with his wife and two kids as well as mountain biking in the north shore mountains.