alaina love

Alaina Love

Alaina Love is CEO of Purpose Linked Consulting and co-author of “The Purpose Linked Organization: How Passionate Leaders Inspire Winning Teams and Great Results” (McGraw-Hill). She is a recovering HR executive, a global speaker and leadership expert, and passionate about everything having to do with, well … passion. Her passion archetypes are Builder, Transformer and Healer. When she’s not working with her Fortune 500 client base, Love is busy writing her next book (to be released in September 2025), "PERMISSION TO BE YOU: Discover Your Purpose and Passions to Bring Your Best Self to Everything — and Everyone," which explores the alignment of personality, purpose and passion, and the science of how it contributes to our well-being. Follow Love on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or her blog.

Articles by Alaina Love

LeadershipWorkforce

What to do when your top performer resigns

By Alaina Love 11/25/24

LeadershipStrategy

Honoring a leadership legacy

By Alaina Love 10/28/24

DevelopmentLeadership

Expanding the “inner rings” in your organization

By Alaina Love 09/23/24

DevelopmentLeadership

Why your company needs humble leaders

By Alaina Love 08/26/24

DevelopmentLeadership

Tips on developing the mental mastery for success

By Alaina Love 07/22/24

DevelopmentLeadership

Are you sacrificing passion to fit in at work?

By Alaina Love 06/24/24

CareersLeadership

Radical career transitions: The success factors leaders should know

By Alaina Love 04/22/24

LeadershipWorkforce

How to quickly evaluate the capabilities of a team

By Alaina Love 03/25/24

LeadershipManagement

The journey from colleague to boss

By Alaina Love 02/26/24

LeadershipManagement

Are you teaching your employees to resist change?

By Alaina Love 01/22/24

LeadershipManagement

Prepare your successor and step down with grace

By Alaina Love 11/27/23

LeadershipWorkforce

Want to retain top talent? Play the long game

By Alaina Love 09/25/23

DevelopmentLeadership

How not to lose your next CEO

By Alaina Love 08/28/23

DevelopmentLeadership

What to consider when your whole team needs development

By Alaina Love 07/24/23

LeadershipWorkforce

Leading a team through the loss of a co-worker

By Alaina Love 06/26/23

LeadershipManagement

Where to begin when the executive team is broken

By Alaina Love 05/22/23

LeadershipWorkforce

A leader’s role in creating workplace wellbeing

By Alaina Love 04/24/23

DEILeadership

What women need to know about success at work

By Alaina Love 03/27/23

InspirationLeadership

Building an imagination practice

By Alaina Love 02/27/23

InspirationLeadership

What are your leadership “Big 5”?

By Alaina Love 01/23/23

InspirationLeadership

Do you have the kind of power that really matters? 

By Alaina Love 11/28/22

LeadershipWorkforce

How to lead a new team to success

By Alaina Love 10/24/22

CommunicationLeadership

Presentation techniques for persuading the C-suite

By Alaina Love 09/26/22

LeadershipManagement

Why you don’t have a high-performing team

By Alaina Love 08/22/22

InspirationLeadership

Giving permission: The future of leadership begins within

By Alaina Love 07/25/22

CareersLeadership

How mentoring an experienced employee works

By Alaina Love 06/28/22

CommunicationLeadership

Important questions to ask to become a better leader

By Alaina Love 05/23/22

CareersLeadership

Why owning your value is essential for career and life

By Alaina Love 04/25/22

LeadershipManagement

What you need to know about leading and mentoring high achievers

By Alaina Love 03/28/22

LeadershipManagement

Connection: Today’s most essential leadership skill

By Alaina Love 02/28/22

CareersLeadership

What quitting your job won’t fix

By Alaina Love 01/24/22

Management

Overcoming impostor syndrome

By Alaina Love 11/22/21

Management

The secrets to making mentoring work

By Alaina Love 10/25/21

Management

Reversing the Great Resignation: Psychological factors that foster engagement

By Alaina Love 09/27/21

Management

Pandemic leadership: I didn’t sign up for this

By Alaina Love 08/23/21

Management

Leverage passion or pay? How to stem the talent exodus

By Alaina Love 07/26/21

Management

Why leadership trust is critical for innovation

By Alaina Love 06/27/21

Management

Leading in a digital void

By Alaina Love 05/24/21

Management

Building leadership trust in a post-verdict world

By Alaina Love 04/26/21

Management

What COVID-19 has taught us about the importance of purpose

By Alaina Love 03/20/21

Management

Women and power: Are you owning yours?

By Alaina Love 02/22/21

Management

The transition of leadership power

By Alaina Love 01/25/21

Management

The essential leadership attributes of 2020

By Alaina Love 12/14/20

Communication

The genesis of racism: One leader’s story

By Alaina Love 11/23/20

Strategy

Will your organization (finally) achieve inclusion and diversity?

By Alaina Love 10/26/20

Management

“WOOP” your team’s goals and find success

By Alaina Love 09/28/20

Management

Who speaks truth to your power?

By Alaina Love 08/29/20

Management

Leading like John Lewis: 4 pillars of leadership

By Alaina Love 07/27/20

Management

What does the TikTok uprising at your company look like?

By Alaina Love 06/22/20

Management

Leadership: The antidote to racial injustice

By Alaina Love 06/08/20

Management

Managing the aftermath: How diverse employees experience the pandemic

By Alaina Love 05/25/20

Management

COVID-19 lockdown: The psychological impact on your workforce

By Alaina Love 04/27/20

Management

Leading your team through crisis

By Alaina Love 03/23/20

Strategy

Maximizing your latest acquisition

By Alaina Love 02/24/20

Management

Leading like LeBron James

By Alaina Love 01/27/20

Management

Connecting purpose and passion for career success

By Alaina Love 12/20/19

Inspiration

Are you developing the right leaders fast enough?

By Alaina Love 11/25/19

Inspiration

How charismatic leaders teach by example

By Alaina Love 10/28/19

Management

Are you leading with power or force?

By Alaina Love 09/23/19

Management

Can purpose and profit coexist? The questions every CEO must answer

By Alaina Love 08/26/19

Management

How to succeed at developing the women on your team

By Alaina Love 07/22/19

Inspiration

The transformative power of story

By Alaina Love 06/23/19

Management

How to evaluate the quality of trust on your team

By Alaina Love 06/04/19

Management

Reflection can improve your team’s performance

By Alaina Love 04/22/19

Management

Harnessing diversity of thought for competitive advantage

By Alaina Love 03/25/19

Management

What’s your leadership word of the year?

By Alaina Love 02/25/19

Management

A CEO’s authentic leadership in action

By Alaina Love 01/28/19

Management

Your leadership year in review

By Alaina Love 12/24/18

Inspiration

How the leader in the cockpit builds a brand

By Alaina Love 11/26/18

Management

How to create a culture of inclusion

By Alaina Love 10/22/18

Management

What a mindfulness practice can teach you about leadership

By Alaina Love 09/21/18

Management

Are you ready to lead the purpose-driven generation?

By Alaina Love 08/27/18

Management

How leaders can foster a growth mindset

By Alaina Love 07/23/18

Management

How to bully your way to the top

By Alaina Love 06/25/18

Inspiration

What love can teach leaders about driving employee engagement

By Alaina Love 05/28/18

Management

When you work for a bully

By Alaina Love 04/23/18

Management

Why your whole team needs women to succeed

By Alaina Love 03/26/18

Careers

Sure signs that you’re building a passion-linked career

By Alaina Love 02/26/18

Management

How to avoid a government shutdown inside your company

By Alaina Love 01/22/18

Management

Unwrapping 5 gifts of leadership

By Alaina Love 12/22/17

Management

How to practice mindful working

By Alaina Love 11/20/17

Management

Shedding the armor: Why feminine leadership is good for your business

By Alaina Love 10/23/17

Inspiration

Communication is about people, not technology

By Alaina Love 09/25/17

Management

When ancestral legacy speaks truth to power

By Alaina Love 08/28/17

Management

The 2 best tools for building an engaged workforce

By Alaina Love 07/24/17

Management

Decisions that are costing you top talent

By Alaina Love 06/26/17

Management

6 key factors for managing young talent

By Alaina Love 05/22/17

Management

When company values and actions collide

By Alaina Love 04/24/17

Careers

Why you’ll end up in the wrong job

By Alaina Love 03/27/17

Management

The untapped secret for inspiring employee engagement

By Alaina Love 02/27/17

Strategy

Are you a disruptive or transformational leader?

By Alaina Love 01/23/17

Management

5 questions to help you lead better next year

By Alaina Love 12/26/16

Strategy

Passion-based service design: How to win and retain customers

By Alaina Love 11/27/16

Strategy

How passion fuels innovation

By Alaina Love 10/24/16

Communication

How leadership influence tactics could decide the presidency

By Alaina Love 09/26/16

Management

What’s the archetype of a next-decade leader?

By Alaina Love 08/22/16

Management

Critical conversations: 5 questions every next-decade leader should answer

By Alaina Love 07/25/16

Management

Saving Superman

By Alaina Love 06/27/16

Management

Preparing the next generation: A leadership manifesto

By Alaina Love 05/26/16

Leadership

What’s eating your lunch? A tale of strategy and culture

By Alaina Love 04/25/16