Recent News and Blogs

Author: Sarah Charles, High Performance Coach A lot has been written about the relationship between Emotional Intelligence (measured as Emotional Quotient) and leadership capacity. However, for most, the question remains if EQ is a critical skill or just another politicized agenda cloaked in ‘education.’ Based on our experience at HigherEchelon Inc, we believe EQ...

Author  |  Rick Roper, SVP Human Capital Services   Both Apple and Amazon started in a garage. Facebook started on a college campus, and the youngest CEO in the world is 17 years old. While it is easy to attribute their success to products and technology, the reality is that all of this existed...

HigherEchelon is pleased to announce Roger Sam has joined HigherEchelon as Vice President of Federal Technology Programs. HigherEchelon, a growing service-disabled veteran-owned small business, specializes in providing human capital and technology services to the Federal government. Roger will apply his experience working with the Department of Veterans Affairs and other Federal agencies to grow...

[Read Time: 4 Min] “If you think you can do a thing or can’t do a thing, you are right." Henry Ford Mind over Matter May 6th, 1954 was a rainy and windy day at the University of Oxford. Warming up on the track was Roger Bannister, a medical student attempting to do something...

Organizations do not magically achieve excellence—it takes high performing leaders to drive organizational excellence. In doing so, leaders must enforce the standards and values that are in the best interest of the organization, and this caretaker approach is called stewardship. West Point’s honor code is a great example of how the academy fosters stewardship...