Happy New Year! If you’re like me, you spent the last six weeks reconnecting with old friends, spending time with family, and eating way too much despite your best intentions. I always try to stop and enjoy that time as a way to...
With the year (and decade) coming to a close, new beginnings in 2020 may inevitably be on your mind. We all want to show up in 2020 with a sense of change for the better, a sense of empowerment, and a sense of bigger and better things to...
If you’re like most people these days, you’re finding that the end of the year can become overwhelming pretty fast. There are holidays, tight deadlines, and personal responsibilities all with their own expectations. Throw in...
It all comes down to creating a communication style that projects confidence. The overwhelming majority of the work I do with my clients centers around helping them find their voice in difficult situations. This is about creating a powerful...
As 2019 wraps up and we head into the new year, many of us will begin taking stock of what we’ve accomplished in the past year, and even the past few years. As such, I’d like to focus the last few blog posts on how to step into...
Ah, feedback. A word that can send a shudder up the spine, cause sweaty palms, create anxiety, or send even the most emotionally intelligent person into a frenzy. And that applies to the person giving feedback, as well as the person receiving it. So...
As Steven Spielberg once said, “The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.” This is the value of mentorship. This, above anything else,...
So, you have your sights set on the big prize — the head honcho, the top dog, the big enchilada … the c-suite. Great! Let’s talk more about that. Whether you find that your progress has stalled, or that the possibility of a...
I love to procrastinate and then believe I’m being productive when I’ve waited until the last minute to get stuff done. It’s Friday, and I absolutely do not feel like writing a new blog post at this very moment. So what do I do?...
If you’ve ever hit a point in your career where you felt you were undervalued, you’re not alone. Throughout our professional journey, there will be points when we realize that we’ve taken on more than we should, agreed to...