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Tampa physician turns personal pain into a mission to heal

When you think of medicine, what comes to mind — cures, prescriptions, diagnoses? For one physician known only as “Ali,” medicine is something…...

Avoiding Leadership Traps

Leadership is fundamentally an ability to create synergy or an aligned mission; it’s developing stewardship where people feel strong enough to disagree, brave enough to fail, and supported enough to...

Forbes: Resilience: The Roots That Hold Us

Bend, Don’t Break: Dr. S. Irfan Ali on the Art of Resilience In his latest insightful piece for Forbes, S. Irfan Ali, MD,…...

Connection: The Power Of Relationships

Someone said to me not long ago, “Build relationships before you need them.” It sounds simple, almost too simple, but I’ve come to realize how often people forget this. They wait until something is...

Kindness: An Essential Ingredient Of Leadership

Is kindness truly an essential part of leadership? And if so, how does it shape not only who we are but also the trust and loyalty we inspire in others? In Fractured but Fearless, I explored this...

Lighting A Candle In A Dark Room: Leading With Purpose And Kindness

Before you’re a leader, you’re a human being. And the people you lead? They’re human too. We all stumble, question ourselves, and face moments of distraction or feeling overwhelmed. What matters most...

A Bucket List Reimagined: Through My Father’s Eyes

Recently, I lost my father. It’s hard to put into words how final and disorienting that kind of loss feels. Grief has a way of rearranging your inner landscape—of making you question the path you’re...

Following Your Passion

The words “passion” and “compassion,” unsurprisingly, share a similar Latin root, “pati,” meaning “suffer,” and “compati,” translating to “suffer with.” The word passion traveled the winding road from...