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 familiar early June push: managing competing priorities while feeling stretched thin. "I'm looking forward to summer Fridays and some time off," she told me. "Once things calm down…
read moreLast 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 what her journey taught me about developing people, no matter their age or role. Alice was a child whom everyone worried about at my school.…
read moreRecently 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 for years. When people believe they are significant at work, they thrive. When they don't, we see the consequences: quiet quitting, disengagement, and high turnover.…
read moreAs 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 in a supermarket and found her safe, she vowed never to judge anyone again. Of course, that vow didn't last long. Soon after, the author…
read moreWhen 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, a natural evolution of the work I've been doing all along. Education as a State of Being ✨ Education isn't really a career; it's a…
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