Month: October 2023

To celebrate the launch of my book, titled You Have A Choice: Beyond Hard Work to Meaningful Impact, I will be hosting a LinkedIn Live Zoom event next Monday, Nov. 6th at 4pm Pacific (7pm Eastern) for anybody who wants to join. Think of it as a Reddit-style Ask Me Anything (AMA) for those interested in…

The only thing you control is your next action. You can’t change the past. It’s already happened, and nothing you do will change that. If you don’t like what happened, you can avoid responsibility by looking for somebody to blame, or make other excuses. You can spend hours beating yourself up and wishing you had…

Thanks to David Hatch, MSc, FIoL for excerpting this bit from our podcast discussion. It’s one of my favorite stories to tell, about doing the most important thing first. It sounds simple, but it’s hard to actually do unless you are conscious and intentional with your time.

I really enjoyed this conversation with David Hatch, MSc, FIoL on his Leading with Integrity podcast. The principles of leadership are simple, but not easy – I often find myself repeating platitudes as a coach, because even though they are trite, there’s a fundamental truth to them. To scale as a leader requires getting simpler,…

I enjoyed this podcast conversation with Paul Maniaci of the Columbia University Career Design Lab. We talked about my #burnout and subsequent redesign of my life to become an executive coach. We also discussed themes from my new book, You Have A Choice: Beyond Hard Work to Meaningful Impact. Please take a listen!

I am excited to announce that I have written a book, titled You Have A Choice: Beyond Hard Work to Meaningful Impact, which will be released to the world on November 6th. I received a preview copy from Amazon, and it was thrilling to hold in my hands a book that I had written. The book is designed…

3 questions for overworked overachievers to have more impact Building on Annahid Dashtgard’s post below, ask yourself 3 questions to decide what your role “should” be, because as an overachiever, it’s easy to let work expand to include anything you _can_ do. These questions can be especially valuable to women, who are often expected to…

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Tips for job seekers to stand out and get hired. I’ve shared the same advice with several job seekers recently, pulling together a number of my LinkedIn posts on job hunting. Rather than keep copy-pasting, I published those thoughts more broadly in a blog post so I can just point people there in the future….

I am looking forward to Jerry Colonna’s book on belonging – while I haven’t read it yet, he has been exploring the themes on the Reboot podcast through conversations with people like Annahid Dashtgard and Lisa Sharon Harper. I appreciate his leadership in stepping up as a person of privilege to engage with these social…