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Listening for the Future That Wants to Emerge
Spontaneity only works because of the thoughtfulness underneath it. You are not choosing between control and surrender. You are building the discernment to do both at once.
The Leadership Blind Spot You Don't Know You Have
How your personality shapes what you can (and can't) wee as a leader
Reading Between the Lines: What Your Team's Communication Is Actually Telling You
When you receive an email or report from a direct report it's tempting to treat it as objective reality. But it's not. It's more like a painting than a photograph.
Thinking in Layers: A Leadership Framework for Navigating Complexity
When your team is struggling, the problem is rarely who you think it is. Here's how thinking in layers (individual, team, organizational, environmental) helps leaders find the real leverage point.
Why "Lower Your Standards" Is the Wrong Advice for High Achievers
The advice to embrace good enough may only work if perfectionism is the problem. But many high-achieving women aren't running on fear, they're running on something else entirely.
The 7 Inherited Stories That Keep Leaders Small (And How to Rewrite Them)
I used to think my leadership challenges stemmed from personal shortcomings. That I wasn’t assertive enough. That I needed to work harder, know more, fix myself before stepping fully into my voice…
When Hope Feels Out of Reach
Here’s what I’m learning: We don’t build a better future by waiting until we feel hopeful. We build hope by experimenting as if the future we want is still possible.
Complicated vs. Complex Problems: A Leader’s Guide to Smarter Decision-Making
Many of the hardest problems—miscommunication, burnout, team dysfunction—aren’t problems you fix. They’re challenges you navigate.
Don’t reach for technical solutions when facing adaptive challenges
You know that optimistic feeling when you start a new self-help book or find a new tech solution you hope will solve all of your problems? 🌈 That.
Even Mark Zuckerberg stresses over team "drama"
Is tension on your team keeping you up at night? You aren’t the only one! Even the most experienced managers struggle with the discomfort of team “drama.”
Jacinda Ardern: "It takes strength to be an empathetic leader."
The former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern proved that the future of leadership is kindness. She showed that empathic leaders can also be strong and bold
How the best managers tap into their team’s potential
If you are an overworked and frustrated manager, this video training will help you get to the next phase of growth for your team.
The 'Achilles Heel' of each Enneagram type
One of the skills conscious leaders develop is the awareness of when they are operating on automatic and when those automatic patterns are no longer serving them. Without this discernment, you tend to think you are playing to your strengths and that other people are the problem.
Working with leadership paradigms
Bringing your awareness to your implicit belief systems can help you be a more effective manager. Learn the 9 styles of leadership and how you can work with them to uplevel at work.
Do specific goals really work?
Goal setting is all about getting clear on the destination so everyone is on the same page and working toward the same end point. Here’s how to balance specificity with flexibility.