Coaching & Strategy for Rebel Founders
For the month of July, I was back in the USA – Santa Fe to be exact. One particular daybreak found me at 10,500 feet in sweatshirt and jeans, the brisk mountain air so welcome after Egypt’s desert heat. I smelled rich loamy earth and the color green; witnessed silent sunbeams as they came to [...]
I recently read an article about a man who got his arm stuck in a toilet while he was fishing for a dropped cell phone. He was stuck there for hours, but it could be worse. There’s the French grandmother who got trapped in her own bathroom for over three weeks. Or the 18 people [...]
When computers get bogged down and stop performing well, “defragging” is often the first step. It’s the process of sorting through all the fragments of files and programs that have been spread across the hard drive and grouping them back together in a way that the computer can easily access them. Imagine if you had [...]
When your drive runs low. When you're just not feelin' it. When it feels forced instead of flowing. When you just want to walk away. It's ok. It's not (always) a sign that you're doing the wrong thing. I absolutely love what I do. And I've been working really hard, trying to get some movement [...]
We’re drowning in advice about personal transformation; books, articles, speeches, and blogs chock-full of how-to’s and sage advice. In my earlier years, I ate it all up. I thought I needed to transform myself into who I wanted to be. Today, after a couple decades of what others might call a mid-life personal transformation — changing my [...]
I'm having a hard time writing about this topic. must admit, the last presidential debate was pretty horrifying. We all watched the leader of the US of A, ranting and interrupting and bullying in a tragic example of authenticity. According to Vanity Fair, "Trump doesn’t accept the consensus that the debate was a disaster because, [...]
It’s the job of leaders to model authenticity at work, but what does that really mean? And how does one go about doing it? One way might be to explore the three types of masks we tend to wear: Identity, Viewpoints and Emotions.... "
Much is being written today about empathy and soft skills being essential leadership traits. Researchers from DDI identified empathy as a critical driver for overall performance, yet found that only 4 out of every 10 leaders are any good at it. Chances are, the memorable leaders throughout your career revealed their hearts, not just their smarts. Empathy [...]
My biggest problem is that I look too normal. If you didn’t know me -- heck, even if you do -- my appearance would lead you to a pile of incorrect assumptions: that this tall, slender, blue-eyed blonde has always been popular, probably a cheerleader in high school, successful in career and in love, and [...]