Insights and Strategies for Empowered Leadership
Not the ones with the most impressive titles. Not the ones with the most polished answers. The ones who were willing to say: this is what it actually cost. I have been in a lot of rooms with a lot of leaders. Boardrooms and conference halls. Nonprofit galas and community meetings. Green rooms before keynotes and parking lots after hard conversations. I have sat across from executives commanding multimillion-dollar budgets and emerging leaders still finding their voice. And across all of those rooms, I have noticed something consistent. The leaders whose words I still carry were never the most polished. They weren’t the ones with the most impressive answers or the tightest talking points. They were the ones who told the truth. Not recklessly.Not as performance. But with…
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What the work actually looks like. What to ask before you start. And how to know if it is working. We have covered a lot of ground in this series. In Part 1, we clarified the difference between a coach,…
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For a long time, I misunderstood what an authentic professional brand actually was. I thought keeping my personal story separate from my work was the professional thing to do. It turned out to be the most limiting thing I ever…
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Lessons on leadership, belonging, and the value of lived experience in executive coaching and strategic consulting. In the the first article in this series, I talked about the difference between a coach, a consultant, and a trusted advisor, and how…
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The leaders who move people are not the ones with the most polished presentations. They are the ones willing to tell the truth. I almost did not write my book. Not because I did not have a story. I had…
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What’s the difference between a leadership coach, a business consultant, and a trusted advisor you ask? Well, I have a conversation fairly regularly that goes something like this. A leader reaches out. She is smart, accomplished, navigating something real. A…
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A myth-busting perspective for leaders who have outgrown traditional definitions of growth Let me tell you what I hear most often when I introduce myself as a healing-centered executive coach. There is usually a pause. Sometimes a polite nod. Occasionally…
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Last Thursday was one of those days I will never forget. In the morning, I had the honor of taking the stage at the TechSHEroes event to deliver my keynote, Joy in Life’s Journey. Sitting in the audience was someone…
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Over the past six months, I had the opportunity to deliver two keynote presentations for the same organization. The first focused on building inclusive workplaces. The second focused on resilience during challenging times. On the surface, those topics might seem…
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I haven’t written an article for myself in a while. But today feels like the right day to begin writing my life story honestly.Partially because I’m procrastinating.Partially because I’m thinking. A lot. I leave tomorrow for a writing retreat. My…
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