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How Your Self-Concept Affects Your Career Growth
Your self-concept quietly shapes how you show up at work, from how confidently you speak up to whether you pursue new opportunities. In this article, learn how your internal story can help or hinder your professional growth, and how to evolve it to reflect who you are today.
How to Lead Former Peers Without Losing Trust or Respect
Got promoted to lead your peers? This article shares practical, thoughtful strategies to help you navigate the shift with clarity, confidence, and integrity — and become the kind of leader your team can trust.
What Embodied Leadership Really Means and Why It Matters Now
True leadership goes beyond strategy and results. Embodied leadership invites us to lead from presence, alignment, and self-awareness. Learn what it is, why it matters, and how to begin.
Coaching Techniques That Actually Drive Behavior Change
Coaching isn’t just a leadership skill — it’s how great leaders grow talent, build trust, and create high-performing teams.
Stress Is Rising—Here’s How to Calm Your Body When Your Mind Can’t Keep Up
Feeling overwhelmed, even with a solid self-care routine? In this post, I explore how shifting from top-down (mind-focused) strategies to bottom-up (body-based) practices helped me reset my nervous system. Learn the difference between these two approaches and discover how to calm your body
How to Lead Through Uncertainty: A Psychological Perspective for Today’s Climate
In a time marked by economic shifts, political tension, and organizational change, uncertainty has become the new constant. For leaders, this presents a unique challenge: how to remain calm, focused, and supportive when the path forward is unclear. This article explores the psychological impact of uncertainty, and offers five practical strategies to help you lead with presence, clarity, and emotional steadiness — even when you don’t have all the answers.
From Doer to Leader: Elevating Your Focus as You Grow in Scope
The Common Crossroads of Senior Leadership One of the most common inflection points I see when coaching senior leaders—especially those who’ve grown through operational or subject matter expertise—is the moment they realize their old ways of adding value no longer...
5 Easy Mental Wellness Tips for Professionals to Practice
When you’ve got a fast-paced and demanding job, carving out time to focus on your own mental wellbeing can be a challenge. Whether you have lots of deadlines that you’re trying to hit, calls to make, or you’re simply trying to focus on your tasks so you can keep up...
Want to Boost Your Sense of Vitality? Here’s How to Start.
The Oxford dictionary defines vitality as, “energy and enthusiasm.” Derived from the Latin, vita, which means “life,” it’s a feeling of aliveness, both mentally and physically. The image that comes to mind when I think of vitality, is seeing my third-grader on the...
How to become a better leader by improving your strategic thinking skills
How much time do you spend on strategic thinking? If you’re like the majority of the professionals I come into contact with, the answer is, “not enough.” Although strategic thought is something that is essential to success, the truth is, that most people don’t spend...
How to Convince Someone that Emotional Intelligence is Important
By now, most professionals acknowledge the importance of EQ for workplace success. Research suggests that emotional intelligence is linked to more effective leadership, better relationships, enhanced ability to manage stress, and greater overall life satisfaction and...
The Importance of Resilience Training in Healthcare
Over the past year, we have seen more than ever, just how demanding it can be to work in healthcare. For those on the clinical side, the challenges of providing high quality care in a complex and high-pressure environment, juggling competing priorities, and coping...
Leadership Lesson From My 7 Year Old
My son loves him some Minecraft. He loves it so much, that he has gotten pretty adept at coding in it. Every day, I’ll see him researching different commands, and creating intricate codes within the game. It’s pretty cool to witness. After he has created some sort of...
What to do if your boss is a Micromanager
In my work as an executive coach, I have the opportunity to hear about a lot of different approaches to management - both from leaders and from the people who report to them. I hear about the approaches that people love (e.g. inspirational bosses, who take a genuine...
Are you living with a sense of purpose?
If you knew you had one year left to live, how would you show up differently? Time is fleeting. This isn’t morbid, it’s true. If there’s anything that the past year has taught us, it’s that we just don’t know what the future will bring. Life is precious. Our time is...
Is there a place for faith and spirituality at work?
Early on during the pandemic, my mornings were a rush of activity. The minute I woke up, I’d check my smartphone for emails and social media notifications. Then, I would tend to my family, drink my coffee, and check out a news website, all with the slightly...
5 Practical Tips that will Help you to Be More Assertive
Do you need to be more assertive? If you do, you’re in good company. I’ve worked with numerous clients who have struggled to advocate for themselves - particularly in the face of potential push back. I can personally relate to this particular developmental area,...
Are You Setting Professional Goals for the New Year? Read This!
If there’s one common theme that I generally hear from clients once December rolls around, it’s the desire to set goals and intentions for the upcoming year. This year in particular, I’ve found that the pull to want to turn the page to have a fresh start is greater...