Want to learn about how you can transform from being a good manager to being a great leader — and help others to do the same? Or have you already been on that journey? As a CEO coach, I’ve found that one of the biggest signs your company is on the right track is that your management…

What do you value? What do you stand for? What are you committed to? What is your purpose? What do you believe in? From childhood through adulthood, and all the way to our death beds, our attitude about these questions will probably change a lot. So will our appetites for answering them. Many of us…

The seed for today’s post is an email exchange I had in 2017 with a client who is near and dear to me. The subject was “letting go.” In a hurry to get my blog done today, I found it saved in an email folder called ‘blog post potential’. Funny enough, “letting go” is exactly…

I have a fantasy that is so hot it wakes me up at night. Tossing and turning, I obsess about the life that is just around the corner for me. Just one app or one hack away. Just one smidge of willpower more, and a bit of life design perfection, and I will be there!…

If you really knew me, you’d know I’m feeling a lot of creativity and challenger energy flowing through me these days. My work is learning to work with it and to let it flow — to be in partnership and consciously allow this power to guide me. What’s coming through clearly is massive desire to slice through…

Last week, I posted a video of me in conversation with Kickass client Terry Lee about why he calls his company a “team” and not a “family”. The majority of that video was about the hazards of using “family” to refer to our companies and why we’re so prone to use it in the first…

A lot of startup founders refer to their teams as “families”, especially in the early stages. They spend all of their time together, laugh together, cry together, and care for each other as human beings beyond their roles as colleagues. Just like a family, right? Not quite. I sat down to talk through the implications…

Can constraints make you more creative? This question is my obsession. The answer is yes–if you choose the right ones.   I recently spoke to the team at Logitech in Silicon Valley about how they can use constraints to help their teams be more creative and productive. For background, Logitech is a publicly traded company…

In our last post, Miriam Meima and I outlined the three unspoken challenges of women in tech — being seen, being heard, and being ourselves. We have had the opportunity to coach a number of today’s most successful women leaders. Through that work a fascinating paradox has emerged — that the path to being seen…

  It’s a fallacy to believe your success at work can be separated from your success as a human being. And truly successful leaders know this. They focus on being successful on a personal level first – and everything follows from that intention. So, that said, what does it mean to be successful in this…