Leader Burnout Is Costing You Your Best People
You wake up. You open your calendar. It's full before you've had coffee.
By the end of the day, the meetings happened, the inbox got a little smaller, and the three things that actually mattered to your role as a leader never got touched. Tomorrow lo...
The most dangerous cage is the one you walk into willingly, because eventually you stop noticing the door is open.
You build the cage slowly, with good decisions. The stable role, the predictable paycheck, the job or life that you can run with your eyes closed. The comfort of the same people, ...
You keep seeing the result you want: the bigger role, the stronger team, the number you know you are capable of hitting. So why does it keep staying just out of reach?
Start with your habits, the ones that no longer support the goal. Many people start looking at adding new habits and often it’s t...
Companies and leaders keep bringing me the same question lately: how do we get our people to take ownership? For as long as I can remember, this has been a challenge, but it has come up more frequently in recent years.
It comes up in almost every executive conversation. There is a real struggle w...
There was a time, about 12 years ago, when I was completely burned out. I mean absolutely fried. I was working nonstop, trying to help everyone, push through the exhaustion and keep a smile on my face. I said no to no one. My job was closing deals, training with high energy, meetings nonstop. The...
I've spent many, many years coaching and training professionals on their presence, their voice, and their ability to influence others. And I've noticed something that costs organizations millions in lost ideas, stalled innovation, and fractured trust.
High performers stay silent in meetings.
Not ...
Everyone is talking about how to communicate better: tone of voice, body language, storytelling frameworks, executive presence. Courses get built around it. Workshops get designed for it. People wanting to influence without authority. And while those things have their place, they are all working ...
If you’d told me I’d be speaking in front of tens of thousands of people over the years, I honestly would have laughed in your face.
I was a painfully shy kid. Public speaking terrified me. I had zero training, no natural gifts, and genuinely believed some people were just born with the ability t...
I wasn't always the person that was engaged and trusting.
Many years ago, I was involved with a team that was starting to not operate in the most efficient way. Engagement was low. People were going around me to my manager instead of coming directly to me. People were doing this with others. Th...
You hit every goal. You earned every award. And yet something still feels off.
I know that feeling intimately.
For years, I was a consistent President's Club earner. Exceeding quota. Bringing in revenue. Collecting recognition. By every external measure, I was winning. But beneath the surface, ...
There is a fine line between excellence and control. A lot of high performers do not realize when they have crossed it. Once it's crossed, it becomes challenging to go back.
What starts as care and helping others can become gripping. It often starts as a commitment and, day by day, turns into ove...
Imagine this. You have been up early; in meetings all day; answering emails; solving problems; on go the entire time. You barely stopped to eat. You are over caffeinated; tired; wired; already mentally spent.
You wanted to spend time with family. You wanted to do something you love. You really wa...
