How to Get Your Team to Do the Work They Keep Avoiding Without Micromanaging: A Sales Manager Case Study
If you've spent your career in a male-dominated industry, "not playing politics" often becomes code for staying quiet, staying small, and letting other people take credit for work you did.
I coach women who are done with that self-defeating loop. They want to lead in a way that's honest, that earns positive influence, and that doesn't cost them their integrity to get it. Here's a case study of what that looks like in action and words.
How Sarah-Neel and Grace Left the Rat Race, Claimed Their Voices, and Earned More
Here are the stories of how two of my clients built the connections and relationships that blew the door open to what came next. In the process, they became their own bosses, grew their self-advocacy skills, and made more money than the systems they left ever imagined for them.
Beyond Over-Functioning: The Ancient Secret to Grounded Executive Presence
The path back to Executive Presence is through shifting brain states.
From frantic to settled.
From narrow focus to open focus.
From high frequency beta waves associated with stress to synchronous alpha waves associated with alert creativity.
With this shift, you regain the capacity to see the big picture and connect the dots, even when a conversation gets heated among executives or a direct report complains about pay.
Proving Yourself is Pretty Poison for the High-Achiever
In a recent coaching session, a client—a Senior Director in healthcare—shared that she felt she needed to "prove herself" to secure her next promotion.
As a language nerd, I find idioms fun, but as a highly-sensitive soul, I also know firsthand the dangers of internalizing them wholesale.