Last week, I was finishing up a training module in the Josh Bersin Academy’s program on Design Thinking for HR.  The topic was focused on testing your ideas and using the feedback framework of…

During a networking discussion earlier this week, I discussed my positioning as a Leadership Endurance Coach and why I put my work under this umbrella.  There was an immediate recognition that leadership is like the endurance sport, and the conversation turned to what it takes to keep going and going… like the energizer bunny.  

We talked about the trade-offs and decisions merging work and family responsibilities…

We’re several days into the year, so I’m curious about how energized you’re feeling for 2025.  

I’m excited for the year ahead and what it might bring, though I have feelings of trepidation based on the number of unknowns facing our world…

As a refresher, here’s what I shared on January 2nd about my choice of three words to anchor my year.

“For 2024, my three words are:  Want, Fun, and Simple.  Here’s how I see these three words guiding me as I make decisions…

Earlier this month, I facilitated an off-site retreat with one of my non-profit clients.  This organization has had quite the year with many successes but also a high level of pressure.  As we designed the session, we wanted to make sure there was time to celebrate the successes.

I feel like I rarely get sick, and I credit that to living a pretty healthy lifestyle. I prioritize sleep, exercise regularly (not enough strength work), drink water (not enough), take supplements, and try to eat pretty well (but I love french fries, pizza, wine and cheeseburgers a lot too.)  But, sometimes, living a healthy lifestyle isn’t enough, and our body forces us to slow down because we often don’t do it ourselves.

A few days before Thanksgiving, I sent a group text to gather expectations from my family about what would make Thanksgiving Day a great experience for them.  I’m sure there were a few eye rolls when the text came in, but everyone went along with it and shared what they wanted most from our day together…

Many of us celebrated the US Thanksgiving on Thursday, and I’m sure we all experienced many emotions influenced by our relationships and the circumstances we find ourselves in.

I hosted one of the monthly Leadership Endurance Round Tables earlier this week. The focus of our discussion was on Leadership Endurance: Preparing for the holidays and the year-end sprint.  We got into a great discussion about how we see the “race” we’re running and why we’re doing it which led to setting an intention for the next six weeks or so:

In a client meeting earlier this week, we were talking about priorities and which meetings made sense to defer based on more pressing deadlines.  One of the leaders shared an interesting perspective when we identified a specific meeting to skip…they said, “unless you’re procrastinating on purpose,” and shared that they sometimes do this themselves.