Business

Retreats are becoming more and more common in a post-Covid world. I’m not talking about leadership retreats–I’m talking about when everyone is invited. Increasingly, all-staff retreats are seen as a perk alongside free espressos, in-house lunches, and gym memberships. As someone who often presents at and facilitates retreats, I’ve seen far too many instances of retreats going horribly wrong. When leaders care more about prioritizing forced “fun” and the optics of the retreat, rather than goin…

Every quarter, I try to record a short Ask Me Anything (AMA). Hosting these sessions serves several purposes. One, it gives me an opportunity to reflect and document my progress and what I've been working on. The second reason I host these sessions is that I am able to repurpose what I share for my LinkedIn posts. I have found it much easier to share my perspective by answering questions than trying to generate thought-provoking LinkedIn posts on the fly. Finally, the AMA also gets me to use new…

Every year since 2017, I have followed the same process to review my year and select the actions I want to focus on the following year.  This process has helped me grow, prioritize my mental, physical, and emotional health, and, most importantly, help me to exceed my income goals each year.  I also share this practice and my worksheets with my clients.

Each yearly vision (and accompanying habits/ routines) adds up and builds on each other.

You can read about my past Vision Day exercises here.

I'm not going to update this sh*t again! 

I was uncomfortable and felt like I had failed another test as a coach who had decided to leverage social media to grow her business.

I had tried several different opt-in options and felt like an online quiz would be the best because the leaders I supported had very little time, but it didn't seem like I was moving in the right direction. 

After taking a few months break from the quiz, I decided to give it another go.

I decided not to take the feedba…

Do you find yourself constantly being hard on yourself in business?

Are you easily frustrated, wishing you were further along?

You may find yourself measuring success in financial metrics, and if you don’t achieve a goal, you end up feeling guilty, ashamed, or worse - demoralized. 

Leaders, know that it’s perfectly okay to feel this way. You’re not the only business owner who struggles with issues of worthiness. 

While you know that the work you do is important and meaningful, it’s just a fac…

Have you ever wondered what the qualities of a good leader are? 

As a business owner or manager, you want to be known as a “great” leader, but what does it take to be an effective and impactful leader in your community?

Leadership has to do with how we engage and influence others. How you’re able to move people to action, vision, and purpose.

I’ve had this conversation with hundreds of leaders over the last few years, and this is a topic that keeps being brought up in discussions again and ag…

It’s easy to get pulled away from what truly matters when you’re running a business.

As a modern global leader, you may feel the need to stay true to your cultural heritage, no matter where you are in the world.

Perhaps you’d even like to weave your cultural traditions into your business.

So, how do you keep your values and mission alive during the hustle and bustle?

I sat down with Araba Ofori, an entrepreneur and writer based in Accra, Ghana, to talk about building a business in the diaspo…

As a leadership coach, I work every day with leaders and executives every day to help show up for both themselves and their teams to the best of their abilities. 

While I am endlessly consuming leadership content, I also draw heavily from my own experiences.

In fact, part of the reason I wanted to start up specifically as a leadership coach is due to the lack of leadership support I felt in my own career.

It’s our job as leaders to raise the standards for everyone around us.

We’re the captai…