The best manager I ever had gave me this feedback in my performance review: “The theme of occasional unnecessary drama is one that came through in your feedback that resonates... You have an amazing resilience that I’ve seen in action. Using this to provide stability to situations will help you…

Do you often wish that you could have a seat at the leadership table and listen to or be a part of the important conversations? That you’re missing out on something crucial because you’re lacking that seat. It reminds me of the Hamilton song where Aaron Burr craves being in…

This is my 100th blog post since I started writing about my career transition from a design leader to running my own business as a leadership coach, speaker, teacher, and writer. Writing weekly started with helping me process my own journey and my learnings in this transition. It’s become a…

Like many of us, my family contracted covid over the past two weeks. My kids and their dad picked it up on the way home from a holiday flight to see their grandma. After two years of this, we’re all familiar with the isolation, the waiting for symptoms, and now…

Adam Grant’s brilliant NYTimes article uses the term languishing to describe what many of us have been feeling during the second pandemic year of 2021. While there were many beautiful connections last year, there were also many times when I felt joyless and aimless and it felt comforting to think…

This was a slower reading year for me. 55 books broken down by fiction (31), nonfiction leadership & parenting (12) and memoirs (11). Some interesting patterns that I saw from this year: I was over leadership books after overdosing on them in 2020. Instead, I followed my own pain-points and…

We’re approaching the end of 2021, the completion of another trip around the sun. I view these year markers as ways to celebrate different aspects of life whether it’s seasons, holidays, birthdays, or personally meaningful events. We can become so stuck both in the mindless monotony of our days and…

Do you identify as an intense, passionate leader with sky-high expectations? Are you afraid that being “too compassionate” or “too empathetic” will mean that your teams won’t hit their deadlines and milestones? On the other hand, are you worried that you might come across as a dictator and inadvertently be…

Like it or not, it’s about breaking through your resistance and establishing that f*cking gratitude practice Cats, and us humans too, are resistant to change. We cling to existing patterns and behaviors, hoping that things can stay the same. Even when we know that things are good for us — exercise, eating well, taking rest breaks— it’s really hard for us to do them. We often…