Put Your People First

So you want to be collaborative and inclusive when making decisions. Great.

Step one of that process is to not be a Lone Wolf Leader.

Step two is to reach out to key stakeholders to get their input ...

Several decades ago, it was en vogue for a high-powered CEO or senior leader to cultivate a “lone-wolf leader” personality. The idea was that one hero would single-handedly advance their department or...

Values. Schmalues…

I get it. Honing in on core values might sound like an exercise in futility. Does any company actually care about an individual’s personal values, and whether they match up with th...

Are you losing your best people, or struggling to attract new hires fast enough?

The war for talent is fierce right now. Hybrid work, The Great Resignation, labor shortages, and skills gaps have orga...

Have you been wondering what an executive or leadership coach is? Maybe someone has gotten your curiosity sparked about the work they are doing with their coach. Or perhaps your management has suggest...

A few years ago, I worked with the twenty-six-year-old CEO of a design start-up. He didn't have a ton of experience yet, but he was a real go-getter. As soon as he was able, he hired all of his friend...

In October, I wrote about a young tech company struggling to create a cohesive and psychologically safe work culture while running two offices in different cities. Despite operating under the same lea...

During a recent coaching session, one of my clients mentioned that she'd been dealing with a colleague who was really mad at her. "We used to be friends," she told me, "and now that I'm in a new role,...

Our T.R.U.S.T model for building and repairing trust in the workplace ends with transparency, but it is by no means the least important principle. It bookends our model because all of the other letter...

It was the year 2001 and I had just been through a challenging divorce that forced me to rebuild my finances from zero. I was desperate to understand why it happened, and how to deal with my personal ...

Effective communication is difficult even in the best of times. Add on all of the changes to the workplace in the last few years, and it makes sense that your weekly team check-in has become a complic...

Is your team showing signs of work-from-home fatigue? I see this happen more and more as the pandemic wears on and we lose out on the natural conversations that pop up in hallways and break rooms when...