As an executive coach, while I am most often working with senior organizational leaders, I also have the privilege of coaching emerging leaders. These individuals have been identified as high-potentials who are being prepared for a first time leadership role or who...
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Five Ways to Achieve Results that Matter
“You can’t improve what you don’t measure and generally, whatever you measure…improves.” ~ HP Motto Your shareholders demand outstanding results, your customers expect an experience that sets your brand apart from your competitors, and your most valuable employees...
Why Systems Awareness Is Essential To Legacy Leadership
Like an ecosystem in nature, functional and departmental groupings in an organization are interconnected and interdependent, with the health of one group impacting all others in the system. Organizations are made up of a complex web of relationships, processes, and...
Creating Conditions for Teams to Thrive
Whether you own a business, manage a group of employees or lead a team of outside contractors that support your enterprise, it is more important than ever to create the conditions for your team to collectively achieve your vision of the future and generate...
Mastering Leadership – An Insider’s View | Sustainability
Several months back when Chrissanne offered to write a blog about her Mastering Leadership experience, I was thrilled! Now that it's turned into a 4-part blog series, I'm humbled by her generosity of time, her willingness to be vulnerable about her journey, and the...
Mastering Leadership: The Importance of Feedback
Leadership. It’s a topic that floats around in every organization. From the breakroom to the boardroom, leadership is a word that is frequently used but doesn’t always have concrete meaning, even to those whose very role in the organization is to lead. As we...
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How Designing Alliances Will Cultivate Cohesive Teams
Every leader has been involved in spearheading a strategic initiative that has gotten off track. When this has happened to you, were you able to identify the cause of the setback and quickly get your team back on track? Perhaps there was some misalignment about...
Leading with a Sense of Discovery and Purpose: A conversation with Ana E. Wood
My most recent leadership conversation was with Ana E. Wood, Waste & Recycling Director for Polk County Board of County Commissioners. Wood has responsibility for all field operations, including the environmental and social impact of waste management activities....
Women Are Already Empowered; Organizational Systems Need To Catch Up
The rise of women in leadership over the past decade would not have been possible without the gritty, strong-minded, trailblazing female luminaries that came before them. Disruptors like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton who fought for women’s right to vote,...