Why do the Pros Need a Coach?

October 27, 2020 by leader 18 0 0

I was talking to one of my executive clients recently about a female leader on his team. After approaching her about working with a coach, she wasn’t quite sure how to take his recommendation. But to him, a successful executive who had...

Why Can’t I Focus?

July 24, 2020 by leader 232 0 0

According to the well-known motivational speaker, Tony Robbins, Your life is controlled by what you focus on. So, what if you can’t focus on anything these days? I imagine that life might feel a bit out of control. This is a big theme across many...

Is Your Mindset Holding You Back?

June 26, 2020 by leader 295 0 0

The wrong mindset might be the very thing holding you back from achieving your potential. I see this time and time again with my clients. It doesn’t matter what specific goals they set for themselves – career change, job shift, promotion, better...

Is this YOUR defining moment?

May 29, 2020 by leader 282 0 0

This global health crisis has caused many of us to pause and re-evaluate what we want in our lives and careers. Are you ready to take small steps toward change?

Who Is Leading Best?

May 19, 2020 by leader 245 0 0

Where I see leaders with fundamental awareness and #authentic appreciation for the emotional and physical toll that #socialdistancing and shelter-at-home is taking, is where I am see the greatest stories of connected and...

COVID-19: How Should You Lead?

March 21, 2020 by leader 323 0 0

The United States is in a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic. If your organization wasn’t already crisis planning, they certainly are now. For the past week, I have been watching the “message from our CEO” emails, the social posts...

Do What You LOVE!

February 11, 2020 by leader 487 1 0

I had a boss who used to say… If it was supposed to be fun, they wouldn’t call it work. ~Boss Now that certainly sets an interesting tone. If work can’t be fun then it is…unpleasant? boring? dreadful? Isn’t it better to figure out how to...

SMART Goals Aren’t So Smart!

January 20, 2020 by leader 399 0 0

New Decade, New Beginning I don’t know why but there is something different about starting this new year. There’s no doubt I’ve had a lot of change the last couple years – left my 25 year corporate career, started my own coaching practice, wrote...

Stop just writing the check and sit in the seat!

September 11, 2019 by leader 712 0 0

Last week I graduated from the Governing for Nonprofit Excellence (GNE) program at Harvard Business School. It was a privilege to represent CASA (Community Action Stops Abuse), the nonprofit organization where I sit on the board. I was 1 of 50...

Good to GREAT Leadership

March 28, 2019 by leader 1042 0 0

It has been a little over a year since I left my corporate job and started my own coaching and consulting business. Now outside the 4 walls of the same company I spent 25 years, I have a much broader perspective of what companies are going...

Strategies For Paving Your New Path

November 8, 2018 by leader 1786 0 0

I have been settling into a new office space and just this week met my neighbors. One is particularly friendly and went beyond the cordial hello’s asking a series of questions about my work, family, health. I found myself opening up and before...

Play with Possibility

October 12, 2018 by leader 1081 0 0

Do you have so many ideas you don’t know what to do with them all? Having ideas isn’t enough…you have to know what to do with them! To develop the potential of a new idea, you have to foster it, cultivate it, “play” with it. In that moment is...

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