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 the "Our Leadership Edge" workshop with a saying often attributed to African wisdom: "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to…
read moreLast 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 moreThis 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 to do what they do best each day ✓ 3x more likely to report an excellent quality of life For those reasons, I use the…
read moreOver the past few months, I've been fortunate to coach 17 people at a financial services organization on their
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 moreA 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 that energized and authentic at work. I was at that show with a former colleague I hadn't seen in years—a fantastic teacher who used to…
read moreAt 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 concert, you know exactly what I mean. Balloons abound, glow sticks alight, and everyone is dancing. 🎈 last week's newsletter and Gallup's research that hope…
read moreThis 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 co-founder Laura Baginski address the crowd, I realized I was witnessing hope in action—and it made me think about what my clients really need from…
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.…
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