Celebrating a New Era of Accountability: Healthy Accountability Book Celebration 

This Friday, something special is happening. 

At the Good Leadership Breakfast, every guest will receive a free copy of the new book Healthy Accountability. Co-author Kevin Sensenig will be in the room, alongside a powerful breakfast speaker, Jude Bricker, CEO of Sun Country Airlines. The room will be full, because this moment has been two years in the making. And it’s time to celebrate! 

This book was written because something is missing in today’s leadership conversation. Accountability has long been perceived as punitive, reactive, and fear-based. This research confirmed that perception. As organizations wrestle with burnout, disengagement, and change fatigue, the same concern keeps surfacing from leaders across every industry: “Accountability feels broken.” 

Two years of research explored what it would take to shift accountability from fear to fuel; from something that weighs teams down, to something that lifts them up. The findings were clear: when leaders embrace healthy accountability, momentum returns. 

O x D = U²: A Formula for Culture Shift 

The book is being celebrated at the Breakfast for many reasons, including this formula: 

O x D = U² 

Opportunity times Dissatisfaction equals Urgency Squared. 

Nothing significant ever happens alone. When leading meaningful change, good ideas often struggle to take hold. What’s needed is a shared sense of urgency. Teammates need to align around the same opportunity and share the same frustration with the status quo. When opportunity and dissatisfaction collide, motivation explodes. That’s when culture shifts. 

For everyone attending the Good Leadership Breakfast: the opportunity (O) is in your hands. Take it back to your organization and connect it to your own dissatisfaction (D), the tensions, struggles, or cultural habits that need a reset. That’s how urgency takes hold. That’s how change begins. The formula is simple: O x D = U². And it starts with you. 

A Clear Path Forward 

This is what healthy accountability looks like. And the data tells the story: 

• 72% of Healthy Accountability Workshop participants said accountability in their organization feels reactive, punitive, and fear-based. 

• But 68% said the most powerful shift was rallying around shared commitments instead of calling people out. 

Healthy accountability is a new way forward for the modern workplace. Fear kills growth. But shared goals and healthy systems unlock it. 

If accountability feels stuck in any organization, don’t wait. Rally a working group. Use the Healthy Accountability book and the survey as a guide. Momentum doesn’t come from fixing problems alone. It comes when leaders model what’s possible, raise expectations, and invite others to own the journey together. 

Looking ahead to Friday’s Good Leadership Breakfast: here’s to the leaders who believe that Goodness Pays and who are ready to make healthy accountability the norm, not the exception.