Category: Leadership Coaching

As featured in Forbes Your CFO resigns. A merger proceeds. A key leader is let go. You lose a major deal. Your direct report handles an important task poorly. A water pipe bursts in your home. Authorities warn of a pandemic virus. Your children make decisions you wish they didn’t. Your spouse uses a certain […]

I have been a home-office entrepreneur for over 19 years. Some years I did exceptionally well (annual income in the top 5%). Other years, there was little to no work (ie. 2008-2009). I remember countless days of staring at my laptop, wondering how I would pay my bills, let alone create the life I dreamt […]

This article first appeared in The CEO Magazine 2019 When stress builds it becomes harder to relax and enjoy your downtime. It’s time to take back control of your thought processes so you can raise your mental game. A number of clients have recently shared that last year turned out to one of the hardest. […]

This past November I gave a keynote to 40 CEOs of some of the largest credit unions in the United States. The #1 and #2 “Best Places to work” in the entire nation were among them. The event was a part of my US firm Syntrina Leadership and it was held at the beautiful, world-class […]

In order for you to be here, reading this post, a million and one things needed to go well in 2019. Reflect on all that was great this year. Write a paragraph so you can capture it fully within your mind. Here is my year as an example … Chicago, Palm Springs, SF, LA, Amelia […]

Leadership is nothing if not an inherently creative act. As a leader, you create a feeling when you walk into a room, a reality for others by the words you choose to speak, and specific outcomes and results by the actions you take. In our rush from one conversation or meeting to another, we rarely […]

Here is a link to our article Leadership Impact: Let’s Get Real. As many of you know, aside from running my own private coaching practice, I am also the co-founder of an executive coaching and senior leadership team development firm called Syntrina Leadership. I am so honored to have our thought leadership in the incredible […]

We are now almost a quarter of the way through the year. What were the goals and dreams you had for yourself this year? Who did you want to become? What did you want to do and achieve? As the first quarter comes to a close, how are you doing? Are you advancing towards the […]

If you are like most people, your answer is probably yes, but as leaders we are not used to admitting this. Perhaps there are certain people and events that intimidate even you. And with those people and at those events, a part of you wonders … Do I know enough? Do I deserve to be […]

In order to inspire, we must be inspired! In order to engage others, we, ourselves, must be engaged. In order to lead others well, we must first manage, motivate, and lead ourselves with our own compelling vision, goals and dreams. • What three things did you hope to do, accomplish and advance in 2018? • […]

As published in Forbes. The human mind wanders. A lot. Almost a decade ago the Harvard Gazette reported that 47% of the time we are thinking about anything and everything other than what we are actually doing! In 2014, TIME reported that the average attention span, thanks to advances in technology, topped out a whopping […]

As published in Forbes We all want to be successful, to win the approval of others and to be chosen for those limited, top, coveted positions. We work hard to become educated, accomplished and known as the best. Unfortunately, the older we get, and the more we move up the organizational ladder, the more elusive […]