Building Trust Through Leadership: The Power of Conviction Over Perfection
You can’t ask employees to commit emotionally to:• a strategy leaders won’t defend• values leaders won’t model• priorities leaders constantly change• or a culture leaders won’t invest in People connect to conviction. Not perfection. Not certainty. Conviction. Employees can feel when leaders are testing reactions instead of leading, delaying difficult decisions, or communicating in circles […]
Stop giving away your power.
There are absolutely unfair systems in this world. There is discrimination, bias,trauma, inequity. Real barriers that impact real people every single day. We should acknowledge that honestly. But I worry about something else happening right now too. I worry that we are teaching people to see themselves only through the lens of powerlessness. Because once […]
The Power of Exit Conversations: How Honest Dialogues with Leaders Shape Confidence and Career Growth
This week, I found myself reflecting on the exit conversations I had with top executives of the companies I was leaving throughout my career. First, I was realizing my privilege of having that access to those leaders and I think what struck me was that as difficult as those conversations were, they helped build my […]