
Is your face telling the wrong story to others? If you find people are reacting to you in a way that is less than positive, you may want to check your facial expressions in the mirror. They can be telling a part of the story that you never intended be told.
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We have all sat in meetings with a manager who blows up, repeatedly, and stands on their proverbial soapbox to make their point. We have all also turned off our listening and disengaged from that same behavior pattern. Yet still, this management style is one of the most prominent and least productive. Learn the strategy to work around it if you can't change it.
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The term “Mastermind†was made popular in the business world by Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich.
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If I had a nickel for every conversation I have had about removing a ‘label’ that a manager or leader gave a team member, I’d be a wealthy, wealthy woman.
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Do you ever wonder how the really great ideas come to be million dollar inventions? Or, how some leaders appear to have the golden ticket for getting the right team members to get the win? I have pondered these things for many years.
If you are like me, you have had an idea, drawn it out, envisioned what it can do to transform the world or make life easier for someone only to have your idea go on the shelf. A few years later, that very idea is now making someone else millions of dollars! And yours is still on the shelf.
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Over the years of working with teams from Government to Manufacturing to Corporate Enterprise the average leader will creatively avoid telling the members of their team the truth about the status of the business–At all costs.
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If you have ever undertaken a major change initiative with your team and led them toward a big goal, you may have experienced some feelings of frustration around people slipping back into old behaviors. The very behaviors you are trying to change to increase performance or drive the new initiate to success.
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Emotional awareness is the ability to identify and express what you are feeling and to have empathy for what others are feeling. It’s the building block of a healthy emotional life.
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Many of you have heard me talk before about ‘Letting Go of the Baggage’. In fact, it is a topic that is attracting more and more speaking opportunities around the Greater Puget Sound for this Business Coach.
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One of the most tragic actions a leader can take is to turn off the volume in their office. With the chaos and challenges that they face day in and day out, at some point they stop listening to what is going on around them.
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