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“In order to be successful in the outside world, a leader has to take an inner journey,” Sucheta Jain, co-founder at Farragut says. Leaders must know people, really understand them, and how can they do that if they don’t understand themselves?

When Farragut’s co-founder Shail Jain received feedback from his leadership coach and friend Vinay Kumar,[1] he got a shock. “Controlling, afraid of failure, rejection, and even success”, Shail wasn’t the leader he thought he was. Since that day in March 2018, Farragut has been on a leadership journey.

“The first time I was onboarded it was like someone dropped me in the water and forgot the life vest,” said Brendan Kenny, Support Team Lead at Farragut. “The second time, it was like we’re all sailing along, everything’s cool, and everybody’s making sure I’m okay.” What could be at the root of such a cultural change?

For more than a year, in my capacity as VP Local Gov Solutions at Farragut, I’ve been sharing information and advice through blogs that I hope prove useful to our customers and all property tax leaders interested in achieving full potential with digital transformation.

Are you doing too much manual work outside your CAMA software? Finding your CAMA software doesn’t work with intra- or inter-departmental systems? Dealing with CAMA software that limits or precludes your access to industry-leading appraisal tools?

When Farragut’s co-founder Shail Jain received feedback from his leadership coach and friend Vinay Kumar [1], he got a shock. “Controlling, afraid of failure, rejection, and even success”, Shail wasn’t the leader he thought he was. Since that day in March 2018, Farragut has been on a leadership journey.

Many years ago, I graduated from one university in India with a chemistry degree and another university in the U.S. with a computer science degree. Six years ago, I became a certified life coach. What happened in between? That story, a little of which I want to share now, reveals some of my own purposeful progress, some of my own work toward reaching my full potential.

Change happens. Change, in fact, is constant. Sometimes a person initiates the change; other times, change requires a response from an individual. One can, of course, refuse to change, but

I fell in love with jazz the first time I heard it. The way each musician exercises their craft while contributing to the group effort to produce a magnificent sound.

The Cowardly Lion. U.S. Navy Admiral David Glasgow Farragut. While there’s a good chance you’re familiar with the former, you may not have heard of the latter. But both figures