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Are You Telling Stories?

In your presentations at conferences? When you talk about your mission and vision as an organization? To lead your team? When marketing? To draw a…

3 More 360 Suggestions

Send out an email to each stakeholder selected for the 360 conversation, copy your coach Tell the stakeholder that you’re working with this coach and…

Confidence Forgives

Any number of minor faux pas. Fear enhances them. But confidence sometimes gets confused with arrogance or contemptuousness or grandiosity. It is none of those…

This Morning

I got up and headed straight for the woods.  The outdoors was calling, and although there was much to be done, much that was pulling,…

Your Coach

If what I’m seeing in Q1 is any indication, there is a pent-up demand for executive coaching.  If you’re looking, consider the following 9 criteria:…

Incorporating Intuition

I was talking with several clients recently about the topic of intuition in decision-making and possible opportunities to use it in conjunction with reason and…

My Favorite Question for 360 Conversations?

The last: “Is there anything else you’d like to add?” The Magnificent Leadership® Ascension program is designed specifically for bold leaders who want to create a lasting imprint of meaningful…

Archimedes Takes a Tub

You know the story, yes?  Mathematician and scientist Archimedes gets into the bathtub and comes out with the formula for volume. Earlier this month in…

Repetition is Reputation

What are you repeating? Come in from the cold for a brief application conversation to join 2021 Magnificent Leadership® Executive Forum.  It’s cozy in this vibrant, trusted learning…

Raising the Barre — Again

The first time I wrote about barre class and my favorite teacher, Maureen, was pre-pandemic.  Two months in, I’d begun to get the gist of…

Le Week-End

A bit fatigued?  Frayed around the edges? Know that you’re in good company.  Just about everyone I spoke with this week is talking about it. …

Rapt Attention

A few of the many nuggets from Glen Tullman’s chat at the Magnificent Leadership® Executive Forum last night: There is more innovation in business model…

Chapter 7

I once heard a presenter at a conference, a consultant, declare without reservation or hesitation, that they were smarter than their clients. My first thought…

Wish List

Below is an initial interview wish list for On Love and Relationships℠, my new podcast.  If you have suggestions for how to contact someone, please…

A Valentine

When this was posted in December of 2019, there would be one more visit.  And then a year – and counting – without return. More…

Sex is Another Planet

That was one of the observations that Ian Kerner, renowned sex and relationship specialist, shared during this afternoon’s taping of the inaugural episode of my…

Spring is Coming

Even if you’re sitting in a place looking out the window to snow and icicles, like many of my clients. I saw robins – lots…

What Clients are Reading

Fiction and Non. History. Biography. Business books, not so much. The pages I’m turning these days, some still months later: A Promised Land by Barak…

Connection During Disconnection

Many clients are telling me that despite the challenges of WFH, they’re feeling connected to their team in ways they hadn’t before. As we Zoom,…

Manolos for Meetings

Of the few newsletters that I subscribe to, two of them arrived this morning with similar messages about combating pandemic fatigue. Which was exactly what…

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