The way I grew up, was in an autocratic, highly disciplined environment. I expect many of you leaders have similar experiences and backgrounds. The positive is that I benefited as an entrepreneur and remain very disciplined in the way I run my business. However, my experience and the way I showed up did not translate to effective people leadership. This…
Call us crazy, but we believe that leadership can – and should – be fun. It doesn’t matter how intense your goals may be, why not have fun while crushing them? Team workshops or retreats are also the perfect antidote to the uncertainties that may be impacting your people, due to an ever-evolving business landscape. It’s more important than ever…
At various points, I have shared my beliefs around culture, and this is a biggie for me – I’m not talking about kum-ba-yah, I’m talking about getting real. For some of you, authenticity and vulnerability can feel scary, but there’s a knack to cultivating a cultural sweet spot. I, however, believe we should be more fearful of unintentionally fostering inauthentic…
I was once coaching a client who was stuck in a victim mindset, which wasn’t serving who they wanted to become as a leader. They were expending time, energy and lost sleep on collecting evidence that they were treated unfairly and everyone else was the problem. A mindset I had become too intimately familiar with in my earlier years. I…
On this episode of #TheTransformativeLeader with Amir Ghannad we talk about what it means to show up as a Leader and how taking care of your people should always, always come first. Because a Badass Team will drive incredible results for your organization! If only I had learned this lesson sooner, but it’s easy to forget that your tribe and…
“My belief is we need to change the metric. For me, it was prioritizing people over performance.” In this conversation with the amazing Larry of Readily Random with Larry Roberts, we talk about the results you’ll get depending on what type of leadership you buy into. For me, I was very top-down, an autocratic leader and one who didn’t play…