There's a conversation I have with almost every new executive coaching client, usually in the first or second session.  I ask them to describe a typical week. They describe a schedule that would exhau...

You've done everything right.

You've earned the promotions, built the expertise, proven yourself time and time again. By every external measure, you are an accomplished, capable leader.

So why does ...

There's a pattern I see in almost every executive I work with.

It's subtle. It's socially acceptable. In many corporate cultures, it's even rewarded.

But it's also quietly sabotaging their leadershi...

I'm going to say something that might sound controversial:

High performance and burnout are not the same thing.

I know. In most corporate cultures, they're treated as if they are.

We glorify the ex...

A client said something to me last month that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about.

We were three sessions into our work together when she paused mid-conversation and said: “I just realized I’v...

I want to ask you something, and I want you to really sit with it before you answer.

Think about the last time you stayed late finishing something you could have delegated. Or said yes to a request t...

Recently, while working our on my treadmill I had a powerful memory come up for me that caused a visceral reaction.  It actually made me heave a few times and was enough to stop me in my tracks enou...

"There is fiction in the space between
You and reality
You will do and say anything
To make your everyday life seem less mundane
There is fiction in the space between
You and me"  ~ Tracy Chapman

The...

The lake was calm that morning, the kind of stillness that makes you whisper even though there’s no one around to hear you.  I sat on the beach not far from my mother reading the latest Judy Blume n...

Lately my mornings have been filled with sorting.  I take 1 hour in the quiet morning light and I sift and sort through years of pictures that have come to rest in boxes.  Every picture to be scanne...

This morning, as the wind howls moving the icebergs on the lake I sit mesmerized by the details of the quilt top in front of me.  It is made up of all the funky fabrics from my childhood clothes.  T...

The interesting thing about my life is that I spent the first 50 years selling strength as my best feature.  You name it , I could do it.  I spent large portions of my time here on earth proving tha...