As a coach for high-achieving professionals, I've noticed that many of them have unique strengths that have helped them achieve success. However, with each strength, there's also a "dark side" as identified by renowned performance coach, Rich Litvin, that can...

My daughter came home from school this week having chosen two leaders of their class. They didn’t vote. They used the Quaker method—consensus. Since then, I’ve been thinking a lot about how consensus works. While I am not an advocate for consensus in the workplace,...

Feedback. That nasty little word that means you’re going to hear something you don’t really want to hear, in order to be “better." Really, it’s a blessing, but boy can it sting when you receive it. Last month, I received a piece of feedback that took me a few days to...

If I could just get my team to… is the start of many of my client conversations.  The sentence normally ends with things like, get along, talk to each other or work together.  Interestingly, it’s rarely “deliver”, or “work faster” – it’s always the dynamics of the...

I was sitting in a CEO peer group the other day and the discussion turned to the amount of sleep everyone in the room had gotten the night before. I was amazed. No one on the group had gotten a full night of sleep. The reasons all centered around too much to do and...

I can’t help it. I’m a New Year’s nerd. The new year is a whole new world of opportunity! It’s like a breath of pepperminty fresh air as you look down a mountain of fresh powder before you get to cut your own path through the snow. Eat better, workout more, and lose...

I will never tell you I’m happy I had a brain tumor. I often miss the old me that wasn’t limited by balance, hearing and vision issues. But I will not allow myself to be the person who never [fill in the blank] after brain surgery. I am constantly stretching my own...

In 2013, after giving my life-blood for over 2 years to a cause I deeply believed in, it was “suggested” that I resign for the sake of my family. No kidding. This was the exact comment. Apparently, there was to be a newspaper article the next day, front page, above...