August 19, 2021

How to Set Your Team Up for Success

Discover three ways leaders can help their teams change their thinking and focus on finding success instead of what may be holding them back.


August 12, 2021

4 Steps to Leading Well When You're Managing Friends

It wasn't too long ago that during a coaching session a director level leader said to me “I can’t be friends with them, I have to be their boss.” It’s not a new sentiment. Many managers think they have to choose between having a supervisory role in a business and being friends or friendly with


July 28, 2021

Good leaders help people become more, not different.

Good leaders who want to change the future of a team or business in a sustainable way must help people become, rather than do.

July 27, 2021

Why Good Leadership Matters in the Great Resignation

Is the great resignation happening in 2021 affecting your business? How good leadership development programs help companies grow and prosper.

July 19, 2021

4 Ways Great Leaders Get the Most Out of Failure

Failure is not a teaching tool, but it is an important part of the learning process. You can be a leader who turns failure into future success by spending your time and energy on exploring, defining, and practicing that future success with others, and even with yourself.


June 29, 2021

3 Ways Leaders Can Overcome Imposter Syndrome

We all experience imposter syndrome from time to time. As a leader, here are three ways you can overcome self-doubt and thrive.

May 25, 2021

Behavior Change Takes Time for Leaders and Teams

I was working with a leader a while back and she wanted to create more collaborative meetings in her business.  Her definition of success for these meetings was that people came with creative ideas, shared them freely, and the business came up with better solutions and built a stronger team through the collaborative process. She did


May 21, 2021

What's standing in the way of your success? (Hint: It could be you.)

It often happens when I work with leaders that I find them stuck or trapped in a mindset that is completely in the way of achieving what they define as success for themselves.  As humans we are sometimes our worst enemy when it comes to throwing roadblocks in front of ourselves on our way to


May 6, 2021

Why leaders must build accountability on their teams

I was having a conversation with a coaching client recently and we started talking about the difference between progress and attendance. The difference between showing up and being present and doing what’s required of you vs. showing up and taking ownership for the impact you have that day. We all have days where we are just


April 26, 2021

Want change? Why your team isn't buying.

Leading meaningful change means creating ownership of an idea among the team. And the only way to create ownership is through involvement.


April 14, 2021

Is Your Team Better Because of You?

Seven questions we can all think about that help us focus on our responsibility as leaders to leave things better than we found them.

April 8, 2021

5 Ways to Be a Leader Your Team Wants to Follow Right Now

If people struggle to follow you, you will always struggle to lead, but you get to make choices that help others engage with you, connect to you and accomplish more because of you.

March 29, 2021

4 Steps to Leading Change in the Face of Uncertainty

Change is a fantastic opportunity to be at our best as a leader. Use these four steps to lead change in times of uncertainty and resistance.

March 24, 2021

The Leadership Gym Evolves to Meet Your Needs Now

Covid changed a lot of things.  I used to be on a plane every week, flying somewhere to work with amazing groups of leaders who wanted to have more impact, have more influence, and change the future for their business, their teams and themselves. That’s a pretty rewarding career and I loved it.  But this year


March 17, 2021

The Leader's Calendar Survival Guide

I was working with a senior leader recently and they were complaining a bit as they sized up their calendar for the coming week. When I asked them to describe how the week felt, words like overwhelming, heavy, and exhausting showed up.Taking Control of Your CalendarSometimes we think that as we move into leadership or


March 8, 2021

Motivation and Leadership, Part 3

Practicing our ability to motivate ourselves as leaders keeps us at our best and helps us master the process so that we can help others.

March 4, 2021

Motivation and Leadership, Part 2

We have to know that oppositional thinking is GOING to happen, and we must be ready for it. We do that by having a plan for it when it shows up.

February 23, 2021

Motivation and Leadership, Part 1

Leadership can be about motivation, helping others move toward a new goal, or learn and grow. But leaders need motivation too.

February 16, 2021

Feedback: A Leader's Responsibility

There is no more important thing a leader can do than consider, plan for, and practice effective conversations with others that they lead.


February 9, 2021

3 Reasons Leaders Must Have a Vision

I was talking to a friend of mine not too long ago and he was telling me about a vacation that he was planning.  He shared some of the details, and as he was describing the trip I learned more about the destination, the kind of experience it would be and candidly, I kind of


February 2, 2021

Are you escaping or recharging?

One of the words I hear more and more these days as I work with leaders and business owners is “stress”.  The challenges of leadership are always significant, but now many leaders are having to cope with leading remotely, struggling or dramatically changing business environments, and a team that is also increasingly stressed.  As leaders,