I spent last week working with 73 smart women: the 2013 Class of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale.  These women from around the world gathered to hear from experts on what it takes to get elected to office. I had the opportunity to work with each woman, one-on-one, to help her grow her executive...Read More

Organizations talk frequently about the importance of their employees working together.  The reality is that working together doesn’t always work well — working with others isn’t easy and teamwork isn’t natural for some people.  But being able to build strong, effective, working relationships with team members is often the determining factor for both an individual,...Read More

This month I’ve talked with many of my clients about the year-end reviews they’re doing for their direct reports, as well as the year-end reviews they’re getting from their bosses.  Hopefully, December isn’t the only time of the year they’re giving and getting feedback, but for many organizations, year-end reviews still mark the ‘official’ feedback...Read More

Happy Halloween!  It’s not often you get to tie executive coaching to one of the most important days of the year for kids. On Halloween, we think of ghosts, goblins, and gremlins. In coaching we sometimes face some scary things too, including our own gremlins — those negative thoughts we have inside our head that...Read More