Your organization has core values — but how often do you actually use them? Most teams I work with have values posted somewhere, but they're not part of the day-to-day.…
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A Leadership Lesson from Geese
What One Senior Leadership Team Learned about Collective Strengths Recently, I traveled to work with a senior leadership team that oversees a subsidiary of a Fortune 500 company. I started…
read moreYou Can’t Read the Label from Inside the Bottle
Leadership isn't just about doing; it's about pausing to reflect. And that's where coaching really helps. We're so busy striving that we don't create enough space to step back. Coaching…
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It’s the Fresh Start Effect!
Given that so many New Year's resolutions fail (mine included), I wasn't sure it was worth the trouble this time around. But I came across several pieces about goal-setting in…
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The Hidden Power in Your Team
Last Wednesday morning, I was in a midtown conference room with a team of senior leaders of a Fortune 500 company. I was facilitating a CliftonStrengths leadership session, and I'd…
read moreThis Metaphor Will Change How You Lead (Above / Below the Line)
Are you above the line or below the line? It's a deceptively simple metaphor, but it will change the way you see yourself and others. At any point in time,…
read moreHow to Interrupt Limiting Beliefs
When my colleague Alex and I talked about limiting beliefs, he said something that stuck with me: "It's like living your life with the handbrake on." We all have those…
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From Competition to Contribution
Last week, I gave myself a challenge: post on LinkedIn every weekday. As uncomfortable as it feels, I know that showing up online matters. People who aren't familiar with my…
read moreWhy Focusing on Your Strengths is Essential for Leaders
This is why I’m a strengths-based executive leadership coach. Gallup’s research shows that people who focus on their strengths are: ✓ 6x more engaged at work ✓ 6x more likely…
read moreAre You on Autopilot?
My colleague Alex describes something so many leaders experience: "It's like spinning a wheel. You wake up, you work, you go to bed, you wake up, you work—doing things on…
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What Financial Services and Schools Have in Common
Over the past few months, I've been fortunate to coach 17 people at a financial services organization on their
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How We Can Work Together
I've been working on something for a while now, tweaking and refining until it captures what I want to say. It's a visual guide to how we might work together,…
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Small Moments, Sustainable Leadership
This week, I facilitated a professional development workshop on building resilience and cultivating a positive mindset. Near the end of our time together, one participant shared. Try This Today What's one…
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What Your Brain is Picking Up at Work
"Culture is the way we do things around here." I love this quote from organizational consultants Deal and Kennedy. It's so simple, and yet so true. I remember first hearing…
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Small Acts of Courage
When I was a lower school division head, a dear colleague and I used to teach a class called “Stories and Songs” to the youngest grade levels. It was a…
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Tuning Back In: A Reintroduction
Recently, I was working with a director at an international non-profit who's navigating the challenge of leading an organization that's grown from 80 to 320 people. She was feeling overwhelmed…
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What Energy Do We Bring as Leaders?
A few weeks ago, I wrote about watching 13,000 Phish fans experience pure joy at Forest Hills Stadium and wondering how we could create similar conditions for people to feel…
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The Science of Small Joys
At Tuesday night's sold-out Phish concert at Forest Hills Stadium (my first Phish concert in almost 20 years!), 13,000 people experienced pure, unguarded joy. If you've been to a Phish…
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What People Need Most from Leaders
This past Friday evening, The New York Times described it, "caters to women who have things to do in the morning — and need dancing more than ever." Watching Earlybirds…
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When Good Advice Isn’t Enough
Over the July 4th long weekend, my family and I spent time in Windham, NY, for our early summer tradition of transforming our children into 'junior farmers' for a few…
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How to Lead from Your Best Self Daily
Last week, I shared more about how the Positive Intelligence Program works: the seven-week program that help accomplished leaders make better decisions under pressure, strengthen their relationships, and respond to…
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Why Summer Won’t Reset Your Stress (And What Actually Will)
Yesterday was the first day of summer ☀️, and it made me think about a recent conversation I had with a client who's been in her role for decades. She described the…
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This Changed How I Think About Leadership
Last Wednesday evening, I shared a story in my "Raising Confident Tweens" webinar that resonated with participants, many of whom are leaders themselves. It's about a third-grader named Alice, and…
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The Missing Piece in How We Develop People
Recently on LinkedIn, I shared a post about Zach Mercurio's recent Harvard Business Review article, The Power of Mattering at Work. The article confirmed what many of us have observed…
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Stop Being So Judgy
As I read this week's New York Times Well newsletter, “How to Stop Being So Judgy,” I recognized exactly what the author was describing. After a mother lost her 3-year-old daughter…
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My Journey from School Leader to Executive Leadership Coach
When I talk about my transition from educational leader to executive coach, I don't think of it as a pivot or career change. Instead, I see it as an expansion,…
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