Everyone is a master. Yet we have a choice about which energy we master. We can work to master Abundance (Abundance = overflowing health, harmony and prosperity), or we will default to the scarcity mastery (scarcity = disease, conflict and financial worry) which we have inherited. Everything in the Universe is made of energy and all energy […]
A few years ago on a family vacation, we sat in the choir stalls at Westminster Abbey — the 700-year-old English church — and listened to choir voices echo and then fade into the abbey’s ancient spaces. My normally fidgety son was glued to his seat, in complete awe. The summer before, we all stood […]
What lessons can the space shuttle Challenger and Columbia disasters teach us that we can apply in business? According to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, NASA never fixed the underlying institutional problems that led to the 1986 Challenger tragedy. As a result, many of them played a role in Columbia’s doomed flight in February […]
Meetings have become the bane of business. How many of you have gone to a meeting and left asking yourself: “What was the point of that? Why was I invited? Will any actions take place as a result of this meeting?” Sometimes just getting people to meetings is a trick in itself. One company I […]
In what people are calling a tumultuous year of change it seems appropriate to re-examine how we succeed and how we fail at change. Harvard business professor and author John Kotter states business leaders are more successful if they connect change to a positive emotion, and more likely to fail if they associate it only with negative feelings, […]
When training your brain to work at its full potential, you should think of your brain as a gatekeeper for change. Give it what it wants, and it will help you evolve and grow into an effective leader. Don’t give it what it wants, and it might make you feel apathetic, dull, fearful of the […]
My passion is helping leaders find their purpose. It is helping them to identify what it is that provides the motivation to move their teams from good to great. When working with leaders who wish to inspire action within their organization, I like to share Simon Sinek’s TED talk titled “How Great Leaders Inspire Action.” This […]
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We deal on a daily basis with executives and teams who want to focus on personal and career development, increase their leadership skills, and transform their career. I frequently find myself thinking of examples in my own life that align with those of my clients. For example, yesterday I was on the paddleboard and noticed […]
I seldom pause a television show to rewind back to a line delivered by a character just so I can write it down, but tonight I did. The eldest daughter in Madame Secretary commented on college students protesting the Peruvian government. The line that got me to reach for the rewind button on the remote […]