Bree Groff is a company culture, engagement, and leadership consultant, and serves as a senior adviser to the global consultancy SYPartners. She has guided executives at companies including Calvin Klein, Google, Hilton, Microsoft, and NBCUniversal.

What’s the big idea?

Bree remembers sitting in the waiting room at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center with her mom, hoping desperately that her mom’s oncologist could give her every last day possible—and then talking to a friend from work, telling her she “couldn’t wait for the week to be over.” The different attitudes toward the value of our days were striking. It became very clear: when we wish away the workweek, we wish away our lives. What would it take for us to look forward to Monday?

Below, Bree shares five key insights from her ne

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