My husband is a better cook than I am. And—despite the delicious salad dressings and smoked meats he's known for—sometimes it stings that he's a better cook than me. All this time, I thought I was supposed to do the cooking. Why? Because I'm a...
What most leaders overlook in their internal communication strategies Leaders need to be able to communicate new changes across their organizations. Yet communication is consistently more complicated and also more intuitive than many believe. Last...
Meet Janice. Janice is a lucky woman. She has a family who loves her (and she loves them, too). She works a nice job that pays a nice salary, so she can live in a nice house in a nice neighborhood and take relatively frequent, relatively nice...
Introducing Cassie, a leader who understands the value of a learning mentality. “I have a challenging conversation tomorrow with a colleague,” she said with a big smile. “But I’m so excited about it. I have a plan. Even if it goes off the rails, it...
I'm tired of leaders who are bad for people soaking up all the press. Recently the news has been full of stories about them. I like to call them “the bad ones.” And here’s a whole list of them: The bad ones To start, you’ve got Dan Price, the CEO...
I cut my teeth on group work as a trainer and educator in the wilderness. One of my favorite things was taking teams—often groups of C-suite leaders or high-level managers—river rafting. I did it because it put these leaders in stressful...
Truth-Bomb: With 34% of global knowledge workers going back to the office FT, work-related stress and anxiety hit their worst level since the summer of 2020. In addition, these same workers say that are 2.6X more likely to look for a new job this...
I’ve been in business for 21 years. I’ve done it all of that time, nearly entirely on my own. I’ve only (really) let other people help me in the last 4-5 years. Why? I felt it was my job to be the...
Listen to the show: Show Notes We see the news and feel the trauma of what is happening in the world right now, from violent mass shootings to climate change, and then we go to work. How are leaders supposed to navigate the impact our ever-changing...
Women are often asked to be more like men at work. Yet when they change their styles, they’re labeled “evil,” “aggressive,” or “mean.” Contradictorily, many people say that the most urgently needed leadership skills are traditionally feminine qualities. How can we reconcile these contradictions in a gendered world?