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In this blog series, I pose questions to challenge old ways of thinking and provide stories to give you a broader view of your life and career. I share what informs and inspires me as a way to help elevate your perspective as you move toward the life you’ve imagined. 
3 Ways For Mentoring Employees More Effectively
Effective mentors help their employees find new ways to use their skills and talents. They give them the confidence to do more. But mentoring employees takes time, and it’s often hard to know where to start. With the daily distractions businesses face, mentoring often...
Need Help Creating a Business Strategy for the New Year?
Fall is the perfect time to start planning if you’re creating a business strategy for the new year. If you want your team to “hit the ground running” in January, they need an idea of where you want them to end up. And this is where a few lessons from growing up on a...
Help Your Team Defeat Imposter Syndrome
As a leader, it can be frustrating when a member of your team seems to be holding back. You know they have so much potential but getting them to see that and step into it seems impossible. Imposter Syndrome might be what’s holding them back. Merriam-Webster defines it...
Want Your Business to Thrive? Answer These 3 Questions.
“Find out what you do best; Then find out how you can pay most of your attention to doing it; Get someone to pay you for having paid most of your attention to mastering that one thing.” - Genius Turner Are you solving the right problems? Do you know what questions to...
Obstacle or Opportunity? Why Perspective is Everything in Leadership.
What happens when you face an obstacle? And how do you lead when your team hits a roadblock? You might think the role of a great leader is to create and execute a perfect plan. And while there’s some truth to that, life rarely plays along. Having a vision is a good...
Freedom, Courage and The Wall
"Those who won our independence . . . valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty." - Lois D. Brandeis What do you think of the 4th of July? I’m a history nerd and wars fascinate...
What Harry Potter’s Grindlylows Can Teach You About Leadership and Moving Past Uncertainty
"Don't believe everything you think." - Unknown If you are a fan of the Harry Potter series, you may remember the Grindlylows. They are mythical water creatures that like to trap their prey in the seaweed at the bottom of the ocean (Harry encounters them in Book 4,...
How Leaders and Business Owners Know When To Say Yes
“Even when a need exists and we are well qualified to meet it, we are not necessarily called to respond to it . . . To be doing what is good can be the biggest obstacle to doing something even better.”
-Suzanne Farnham
The Problem With Rushing Growth
I love that I live in a part of the world where the changing of the seasons is so striking. I love watching new plants come up in spring and seeing them progress – tiny buds blooming into daffodils, crocus, and tulips. The flowering redbuds and crab apple trees make...