Leadership Embodied: How to Mobilize for Wisdom Now
So you think your body is just the container to get your mind from place to place? Wrong! Or you imagine great leaders come only from great schools? Wrong again. Or perhaps, you imagine they are just born that way? Sorry, wrong again! Or partially wrong…yes some leaders come naturally with an innate ability to […]
Women Leaders: It’s Time to End the Suffering
The reason many brilliant women struggle to fully inhabit their leadership has little to do with where they work. Or men! Even juggling family and career isn’t the main culprit. So what is? Most often, what holds women back is a question they run over and over in their heads like a mantra: “Who am I to […]
Women: Don’t “Just” Yourself
Women are amazing – brilliant, creative, compassionate, kind. Yet often, when they step into positions of leadership, one of the hazards they face AND rarely notice are their speech habits – the ones that undermine them. Women’s unique way of communicating tends to be collaborative, consensus-building and inviting – much needed attributes in conscious leadership. […]
Mobilize for Wisdom: Mindful Women Leaders Step Up
When smart women leaders decide to become more skillful, they look to mindfulness practices for support…and its a very good thing! Cultivating mindfulness allows you to “attune” to what is happening – not just “see” it. That means noticing the tiny details – a muscle tightening in someone’s jaw, the temperature of the room rising […]
In Defense of Hard Work
I’ve lived, learned and worked on the planet for a long time. One beautiful occurrence I note each day is the synthesis of lots of learning and lots of experience. And as a woman, mother, grandmother, friend, aunt, teacher, executive coach, reader, writer, entrepreneur, world traveler, neighbor – and more – those experiences come from […]
The Curse of the To-Do List
The “to-do” list has become…..ubiquitous! (I love using that word.) Wherever your eyes fall, people are referring to them. Making them, checking items off on them. There are new programs to bring the “to-do” list into electronic formats, mobile apps – anything to make the modest list into a 21st century technology., complete with colors, beeps […]
Leaders: Think Before You Speak
Before you speak, do you clarify your intent? Whether the speaking is in written or verbal form, do you make conscious what you desire from the communication? Perhaps it is connection you seek. Or attention. Perhaps you have a specific request, say for a solution to a problem or a suggestion or idea, or perhaps […]
Embrace Failure and Find Your Power
Often coaches (and consultants) ask, “What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?” I understand they ask that particular question to motivate, to support bigger visions. The trouble with the question is it demonstrates a disturbing underlying assumption. The assumption is that failure is bad for us! It isn’t! Instead, if we look at failure as a teacher, […]
The Holiday Project
We yearn… for recognition, connection, meaning. And the holidays make that yearning acute. And the yearning is heightened by the cultural messages that seem to intensify at this time of year – as though our very human needs are impacted by the calendar! I find many of the folks I work with more anxious, more […]
Take a Stand
I have been riven with grief, rage and fear these past 20 days. Today, inspired by a leadership blog post, I am sharing a conviction.What occurred in Israel on Oct. 7th can go by no other name than terrorism – regardless of your political position on the Palestinians!It must be called out as the evil […]
