Category: Leadership
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Triggers and Choices: Finding Our Way Through the Fixed Mindset Fog
There’s a moment that perhaps we all recognize: your stomach tightens, your face flushes, and suddenly, you’re in that old story again. Maybe it’s the story that says you’re not ready. Maybe it’s the one that says you should have known better. Or the one that says if you don’t prove your worth right now,…
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When the Weight Feels Heavy: A Love Letter to Nonprofit Leaders and Changemakers
Nonprofit leaders are a special breed. They’re the ones who run toward the fire, not away from it. They work long hours not for profit, but for purpose. They wake up thinking about how to heal communities, fight injustice, lift others up, and somehow still make payroll by Friday. It takes a rare kind of…
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The Center Holds: What It Takes to Lead Through Emotional Undercurrents
You don’t have to name it to feel it. The tension in a check-in that goes a little too quiet. The sideways energy in a team trying to push through. The inner pressure to stay upbeat when you’re not sure how much of your own uncertainty to show. We’re all living in a time of…
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Shaping a New Leadership Playbook for a Complex World
There’s a kind of leadership style that once felt like the gold standard. It was all about decisiveness, structure, and holding the reins firmly. In times of uncertainty, it gave people something to rally around: a confident voice, a clear chain of command, and the promise that someone, somewhere, had things under control. But the…
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Leading Like a Coach: A Mindset Worth Celebrating
Did you know that the art of coaching has its own celebratory week dedicated to it? That’s right, and this week is International Coaching Week, a time to celebrate the profound impact coaching has on individuals, teams, and organizations worldwide. As a leadership coach, I find this week especially meaningful because it highlights a powerful…
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When Disengagement Becomes the Norm, It’s Time to Rethink the System
Gallup’s latest State of the Global Workplace report offers a grim but unsurprising headline: employee engagement worldwide has declined for the second time since 2009, settling at just 21%. Less than a quarter of the people around the world are engaged in what they do for a living. For managers, the numbers are worse, especially…
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When Your Colleague Isn’t Human: Rethinking Leadership for the Age of AI Agents
It’s hard to ignore all the talk about AI these days. It’s in the news, in our tech, and, more recently, in our dinner conversations. Just last weekend, a friend—a nurse by profession, deeply rooted in earth-based spirituality and about as non-technical as you can get—told me with total sincerity that she believes AI may…
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Regeneration Starts Within: Coaching Leaders for Planet-Positive Impact
It’s Earth Day! While we really should be thinking about the health and welfare of our beautiful world all the time, this particular day is about taking a moment to celebrate our living planet and reflect on the ways we show up in relationship with it. Let’s go deeper, however, than reusable grocery bags and…
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Practicing DEIB When You’re Afraid to Get It Wrong
Let’s be honest: a lot of well-meaning leaders are scared to say the wrong thing. They care about creating inclusive, equitable, human-centered workplaces. They want to get diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) “right.” But that desire—while good-hearted—often gets tangled up in the fear of fumbling. So they freeze. Or delegate. Or retreat into polished…
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Unmasking Professionalism: Toward a More Courageous Way of Working
There’s a moment that happens, quietly and almost imperceptibly, at the start of the workday. Maybe it happens in the car, or in front of the bathroom mirror, or during the familiar click of a Zoom login. It’s the moment we put the mask on. Not a literal mask, but the one we’ve been trained…