Great leadership is rarely taught, but it can be mastered. I break down complex topics and offer insights, resources, and challenges to help you strengthen your skills, build confidence, refine your mindset, and lead high-performing teams.
Intentional Leadership, Not Performative Gratitude
Intentional Leadership, not Performative GratitudeAs we wind down the year, I invite you to be brave. Begin your next meeting with a pause. Let the moment land. Then say, “Thank you.” Don’t rush past it. Thank them for their time. This will feel powerful. It’s easy to untether the tension—to speed up your speech, pivot to business, move on. What if you took thirty minutes to share gratitude. Take a moment to truly connect. Be the leader you admire. You have an opportunity at this moment. Will you use it? |
Weekly Wisdom
Great leadership is rarely taught, but it can be mastered. I break down complex topics and offer insights, resources, and challenges to help you strengthen your skills, build confidence, refine your mindset, and lead high-performing teams.
When we travel, we pack with intention.We consider the destination. The climate. The version of ourselves we want to show up as. A parka doesn’t belong in Hawaii. And yet… In our lives, we carry everything only adding more as time goes on. Old disappointments.Outdated rules.Protective patterns that once kept us safe.Beliefs formed in boardrooms we no longer sit in. We drag them into new seasons and wonder why they feel heavy. The experiences that shaped you matter. They built your resilience....
Me: “Mmmm, maybe we should transplant this lavender over to the larger garden…” Thirty minutes later… Me: “WHAT did you just do?”Husband: “I transplanted it like you said.”Me: “I didn’t say to transplant it. I was just thinking about transplanting." I walk away.He stands bewildered. The famous disconnect. We’ve all done it. What feels like casual ideation to you can land as instruction to someone else. Especially when there’s a power imbalance. (Yes, I am the boss!) A leader shares an...
For women to internalize and for men to recognize: As much as we try to deny it, most of us carry an unconscious tension around gender — who we believe we should be, how we expect to be treated, and the quiet stories we tell ourselves about why things did or didn’t happen. These stories can become mental quicksand. You can spend years dissecting every nuance of others’ behavior… or you can shift your focus to your inherent power. We cannot control others — nor should we exhaust ourselves...