Make sure you are moving towards something meaningful, not just running away from something bad, when you are seeking change. Lately a few of my clients have sought my help with deciding upon and designing…
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Dreaming about Consulting or Working from Home? Here’s Three Questions
Is consulting for you? Working from home, a good fit? I recently had a chat with a client who was considering going into consulting as she was looking for more flexibility, independence and rewarding work….
The Power of Storytelling for a New Perspective
What stories are you creating about your life and career? We are storytellers by nature. That is how we make sense of life. Of our successes and our failures. Of pain and joy. Love and…
Health, Leadership and Organizational Performance
We seldom speak about the importance of health and wellbeing of the leader for organizational performance and inspiring leadership. However, if your leadership team crumbles under stress or your manager “checks out” from exhaustion you…
Living and Leading with Purpose – Why I Coach
As we are celebrating International Coaching Week, I decided to share my path to coaching and why I coach… here is my story: It’s a sunny, humid and warm June afternoon in New York City…
Being a Change Whisperer
Most people experience times in their careers when they question their choices, wonder about opportunities lost, or roads not taken. Sometimes this is prompted by changes in one’s personal life; aging, becoming a parent, losing…
Challenges as a Young Manager Leading More Experienced Staff (1)
The blog of the week is written by our new collaborator, Mallika Sarkar. She shares her experiences and thoughts about something that is becoming increasingly common as the millennials are growing their careers and baby…
Assertiveness Skills for Global Careers
Asking for what we need and advocating for what we know or believe in can be challenging for many of us, especially if we are new in the office, just now embarking on our career…
Spring-Creating Opportunities for Something New
This spring has been busy. Spring usually is. The outdoor sports season starts for the children so nights and weekends are spent cheering at my daughter’s softball games and my son’s tennis and track &…
American Optimism, Finnish Sisu and Old Fashioned Grit
I grew up in a small town in western Finland. My family was a typical middle-class Finnish family, except that we come from the small Swedish-speaking minority. Both of my parents grew up on farms….