Leadership Delegation: Why Urgency Doesn’t Transfer
The Part of Delegation Nobody Talks About Most delegation advice covers how to hand off a task: define the outcome, set the timeline, check in at the right intervals. What it rarely covers is this: urgency doesn’t automatically travel with the task. You can hand someone a deadline and your own sense that it matters […]
The Rescuer Role in Leadership: It’s Not What You Think
Two Kinds of Rescuing, and Only One of Them Looks Like Rescuing In our Reactive to Creative Leadership Lab, we talk a lot about the Rescuer role in leadership. Most leaders think they already know what that looks like: jumping in, taking over a project, doing the work someone else should be doing. I get […]
Dynamic Tension Leadership: It’s Not What You Think
Why This Matters Dynamic tension leadership starts with a gap. Not a flaw, not a failure, a gap. It’s the distance between where you are right now and where you actually want to be, and here’s the thing most leaders get wrong about it: they treat that gap as a problem to solve as fast […]
Leadership Mindset: What If You’re Wrong About You?
Why This Matters Nobody hands you a leadership mindset at birth like a personality trait. It works more like software: other people wrote most of it, and it runs mostly without your permission. Here’s the good news nobody leads with: you can rewrite it. Somewhere along the way, most leaders picked up a belief about […]
What’s Really Running Your Team’s Culture
Why This Matters Team culture building leadership isn’t something you do at an offsite or write on a values poster. It’s in the way people react to each other: what happens when someone makes a mistake, when someone speaks up, when someone pushes back. That’s how you learn the rules no one actually teaches you. […]
From Manager to Multiplier: The Shift That Changes Everything – Here’s How
Leadership delegation is the skill nobody teaches you when you get promoted, and it shows. You know the manager who can’t take a vacation without the team texting them every hour? Maybe that manager is you. I get it. I’ve spent years running a Family Office that oversees multiple businesses and a real estate portfolio, […]
Why Feedback Feels Like Criticism for Leaders
Why feedback feels like criticism for leaders isn’t a mystery once you understand what’s actually happening underneath it. I get it. I’ve sat across the table from someone delivering feedback I knew, intellectually, was meant to help me, and felt my whole body brace like I was under attack. The words were measured. The intent […]
The Leadership Blind Spot That Costs More Than Any Other
You already know self-awareness matters. That’s not the problem. Early in my career, I thought I was just being honest. Direct. Efficient. I said what I meant, I got to the point, and I didn’t waste time softening things that didn’t need to be softened. What I didn’t realize – what took me an embarrassingly […]
The Brain Break That High-Performing Leaders Actually Use
I bought “Peak Mind” by Dr. Amishi Jha because I thought I was going to learn something to teach Scott. That’s honestly how it started. I read her article in Harvard Business Review about attention training and her research with military personnel, and I thought: He needs this. What I didn’t realize was how valuable […]
Here’s the Thing About Neurofeedback – Your Body Knows Before You Do
My husband Scott was already working with Gabi, a neurofeedback practitioner, for his own reasons. At some point he told her what I was going through with adrenal fatigue. Her response was direct: she thought she could help. That’s how it started. Not with me deciding to try something new. With Scott advocating for me […]