Courageous Conversations and Relational Trust
Trust Is Built in the Hard Moments Avoided conversations rarely disappear. They simply show up later as tension, misalignment, or disengagement. Most leaders I work with don’t avoid difficult conversations because they lack clarity. In fact, they often know exactly...
10 Leadership Lessons I’ve Learned From Working Alongside Leaders This Year
A year of “Oh wow,” “Ah-ha,” and “You can’t make this stuff up.” If there’s one thing I can say about working with leaders over the past year, it’s this: We are all human, beautifully imperfect, wildly capable… and occasionally exhausted. Between executive coaching...
Resilient Teams Have Nothing to Do with “Toughening Up”
A client called me last month, frustrated about her team. “My team falls apart every time we hit a roadblock,” she said. “They just don’t have what it takes to push through.” Her assumption? That resilience meant grittier people who could...
The Remote Revolution: Building Belonging, Safety, and Resilience Across Distance
A CEO recently told me, “I feel like I’m leading ghosts.” His distributed team was productive, but something fundamental was missing—the casual conversations that sparked innovation, the subtle cues that signaled struggle, the shared moments that...