Yesterday the Prime Minister of Canada (and sundry other dignitaries) paid a visit to a small town on the South Shore of Nova Scotia. The occasion? An announcement of a large federal investment in a … Read More
How to Keep Women Executives in their Roles
Connection. We collectively are starved for it (’cause guess what? Zoom isn’t enough…). And women executives – despite being surrounded by people much of the day most days – are more starved than most. Starved … Read More
How – and Why – to Stop People-pleasing at Work
“I’m the only one who can pick up the slack while we try to hire for that executive who left.” “There’s so much to do, but I’m just not the person who would ever allow … Read More
How do we care for the people AND drive for results?
There’s an ever-widening gap happening in the world of work, at least based on my small sample of conversations and observations – and it seems to be a gap no one is willing to solve. … Read More
NEW PROGRAM! Executive Women’s Mastermind Group!
You’re an accomplished leader with a passion not only for delivering at the highest level but doing so in a way that allows you and your teams to flourish and thrive, as business leaders AND as humans … Read More
Burnout, Break-up and Women Leaders Opting Out
Here it is again – confirmation that women leaders are unhappy, unhealthy and unable to reconcile the demands of their work roles with the demands of their lives. Is anyone but me tired of hearing … Read More
What is Quiet Quitting?
I’m not sure it’s hit Webster’s yet, although at the rate things are going I’m sure it will. So in the meantime, here’s my definition: Quiet quitting: A practice of doing what’s required at work, … Read More
Is “Leader” Who you Are or What you Do?
“When do we start the up-skilling?’ I was in front of a group of executive level leaders – a mastermind group that met monthly for the purpose of supporting the members to accelerate into C-level … Read More
Love Note to Leaders
I was going to write this post today anyways, and then Malcolm Gladwell came out and criticized the hard-working people desperately trying to figure out the new world of work. If you’re any kind of … Read More
How do you encourage innovation?
As a parent of two boys I learned a lot about how to encourage – yet put reasonable boundaries on – creativity and experimentation. No matter what form these activities took, we usually referred to … Read More