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 just pulled up their Team Grid on the screen—a visual map of where their collective talents cluster. I love using this tool with leadership teams,…
read moreLast 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 work need to understand what I can offer. So each afternoon, I'd try to write something thoughtful. And then, each time I hit "post," the…
read moreOver the past few months, I've been fortunate to coach 17 people at a financial services organization on their
read moreI'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, and I'm excited to share it with you today. What if You Could Lead at Your Best Each Day? That's the question at the heart…
read moreThis 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 Tiny Little Joy you could build into your workday next week? Maybe it's an uninterrupted sip of morning coffee. Maybe it's eating the first few…
read more"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 it in my school leadership master's program, and it stuck with me because it captured something essential: culture is the lived experience, the informal expectations,…
read moreWhen 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 highlight of my week. We would choose a theme connected to the social-emotional curriculum, visit the early childhood classrooms, and—you guessed it—read a story and…
read moreRecently, 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 by the constant stream of emails, the pushback she experiences regularly, and the difficulty of bringing everyone along as the culture shifts under new leadership.…
read moreOver 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 days on a multi-generational family farm. Windham is one of those places where the mountains absorb the noise of daily life. I kept thinking about…
read moreLast 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 challenges with clarity rather than negative thinking. Several of you responded with curiosity about the Positive Intelligence app. What does it look like day-to-day? And how…
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