How Daily Intention Setting Can Enhance Your Leadership Performance

November 16, 2020

Leadership is not about rank, title or role. It is a way of being. Your thinking and behavior affects you and your team. Being purposeful and setting intentions can help you increase confidence, achieve better performance, move you closer to your goals, and spur your team to do the same.

Do You Understand Your Business?

September 28, 2020

Agile leaders with top-notch skills and qualities can be great assets to an organization but the value they bring can be compromised if they don't truly understand the organization at its most fundamental level. Are you willing to assess your knowledge level?

Tapping into Your Leadership “Why” is Essential to Your Success

September 14, 2020

There are many elements to being a grounded, self-aware leader. Understanding your “why” will help you become a much more powerful and effective leader who can take your team and your organization to new levels of success.

Change Your Thinking and Bolster Your Leadership Effectiveness

August 3, 2020

In today’s challenging times, it’s critically important that leaders step up to the challenge and take responsibility for their own mindset and actions that flow from it. When we get mired down with negative thoughts, not only can it impact our own work but the work of the teams we lead, and this can permeate throughout the organization.

The Future of Leadership: Why Grounded, Mindful Leaders Will Thrive

May 13, 2020

Mindfulness is incredibly important to integrate into your daily practice as a leader. You may not fully understand the benefits or need help to fine-tune how you lead from this place. In my own journey, being mindful has truly transformed my world, both in my personal and professional lives. What can you do to be more mindful? Read on for key insights.

Introducing the Eight Pillars of Grounded Leadership

January 27, 2020

I see many leaders who have the raw skills and talents to be truly grounded in their leadership. They just need help putting perspective on what’s required of leaders in the contemporary landscape. I developed the framework of the Eight Pillars of Grounded Leadership to help leaders with this process. Today I’d like to share them with you.

Why Do You Lead?

January 20, 2020

If you are reading this, I think it’s safe to say you want a higher purpose for your leadership. You want to be authentic, and you recognize the difference between superficial benefits and real purpose. But that might not make it easier for you to discover your true leadership “why.”

Leaders: Don’t Confuse Your Role with Your Identity

October 21, 2019

The reality is that “leader” is just a title. It does not magically confer special abilities or skills upon you. The title of “leader” describes a role. What is truly important is what you do once you have been given your role. Certainly, your identity should inform the actions you take as a leader. Your identity comes from years of demonstrating certain actions and characteristics while honing your values and worldview. These aspects of yourself are integral to who you are, and they should absolutely influence your actions. Unfortunately, sometimes it is all too easy for leaders to reverse the order of things.

Don’t Believe These 5 Leadership Misconceptions

October 7, 2019

Although we find ourselves in the midst of the so-called “information age,” I believe we simultaneously exist in the “misinformation age.” Misconceptions, myths, misunderstandings and wrong assumptions are just as prominent today as facts in the general discourse. What is most insidious is that misinformation is often dressed up to seem plausible or factual when it could not be further from reality. And when it comes to leadership, misconceptions and myths can infect the minds of impressionable people, giving them a vision of leadership that is not conducive to engagement, enthusiasm or the continued development of future leaders.