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Here’s a conversation I bet you don’t have in meetings: “What are we most afraid of right now, and how is that fear shaping your decisions?” Most executives would rather discuss quarterly projections during a root canal than acknowledge fear’s role in their leadership. But after two decades of coaching C-suite leaders and surviving my […]

“Fear runs more boardrooms than any strategic plan. The question isn’t whether you’ll feel fear, you will. The question is: what will you do when you feel it?” – Jacqueline Wales Here’s something most leadership development gets catastrophically wrong: we’ve spent decades teaching people to be emotionally intelligent while completely ignoring the emotion that shapes

Then all that is needed is a little daring…then two lives become one. – Paul Coelho. We each have two lives – the one we are living – and the one we dream we are capable of living. Which life we choose is determined by our ability to get comfortable being uncomfortable to embrace the

“Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival – to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.” – Stephen Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Feeling appreciated is a fundamental need. Each of us wants to know that what we do matters. We want

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.” — David Allen We all procrastinate in our own ways. There are thousands of ways to avoid doing what you must do. The interesting thing is procrastination is a really creative act.

“You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.” Tim Cook There is a lot of talk about redefining how we work. Is it remote, hybrid or simply a return to the office? Do we simply keep doing what we’ve always done, or do

“Ignore the glass ceiling and do the work. If you’re focusing on what you don’t have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited.” – Ava DuVernay The continuing scarcity of senior women leaders at the top creates a need for a new paradigm on how women show up in the workplace. We are

At some point in our lives we have all wished we had the courage…to do something different.” – Cindy Solomon, author My work with entrepreneurs, senior executives and employees in large and small companies has proven one thing. It doesn’t matter what role you play in life; the underlying behavioral patterns have a great deal

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” – Benjamin Franklin EXCUSES: We all have lots of them, don’t we. I’m too tired, too busy, it’s too difficult, It’s too risky, I don’t feel like it, I don’t have the energy, why bother,I won’t be able to do it right, I