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Your Q4 Leadership Checklist: A Year in Review and a Free SWOT Analysis to Start Planning 2027
October changes the math for small business leaders. Suddenly there are two conversations happening in your head at once: finish strong this year and figure out next year — often in the same meeting, sometimes in the same sentence. If you're feeling that pull right...
The Space You Take Up: How Knowing Your Design Protects the People Around You
In my previous leadership letter, I asked you to pull your CliftonStrengths report out of the drawer. Not to admire it again, but to use it — to turn insight into a shared language your team can actually work with. If you did that, you already know something...
The Feeling You Forgot: Don’t let a powerful insight become an interesting souvenir
Here’s a bet I’m willing to make: you’ve taken CliftonStrengths. Maybe back when it was still called StrengthsFinder. And if you have, I bet you remember the moment you first read your results. For most people, it’s more than recognition. It’s relief. Something in you...
From Self to Others: The Next Step in Successful Leadership
Before we get into this month's leadership letter content I want to ask how you did with the Action Step at the end of the last letter: Find one recurring task that drains you. One thing that does not fit your design. And move it — intentionally, without apology — to...
Perfectly Imperfect is the Path to Strong Leadership and Strong Teams
There is something no one tells you when you start doing the work of becoming your best self. Your best self has limits. Not because you are not growing. Not because you have not trained. But because your best self is a *specific* person — not a perfect one. And the...
You Don’t Rise to Your Intentions — You Fall to Your Training
There is a gap that stops most leaders from becoming who they want to be. It is not a gap in knowledge. It is not a gap in desire. It is a gap between knowing and doing — consistently, under pressure, when it matters most. If you have been following this series, you...
You Can’t Be Your Best Self If You Don’t Know Your Self
In the last letter, we explored why so many capable leaders struggle to consistently show up as their best selves. Often, it is because their insecurity drives them to self-sabotage. If only it were that simple. It is not just insecurity. It is not just pressure....
Quiet the Inner Critic and Lead Beyond Insecurity
In the last letter, we explored how neuroplasticity allows leaders to reshape their brains through intentional mental fitness practices. If you remember, the key idea was simple: the brain changes based on what it repeatedly does. Pause. Notice. Choose. Act. Repeat....
Neuroplasticity and 5 Practical Steps to Strengthen Mental Fitness
In my last blog post, I introduced the idea of NeuroLeadership and shared what may be the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me. What made my wife’s words so meaningful wasn’t just the compliment. It was the implication: I had changed. Not temporarily. Not...
The Nicest Thing Anyone Said to Me and NeuroLeadership
Followers of my “monthly” Leadership Letter know it’s been less than monthly. A motorcycle accident and a series of Humpty-Dumpty surgeries put me back together but knocked me off my rhythm for a while. Thankfully, I’m now in a place where sharing consistent...
Take a Beauty Break! Don’t Underestimate the Importance and Value of Taking Time to Enjoy Beauty
I work with a lot of leaders. Many are owners and leaders of small to medium sized businesses. I know you worked hard, very hard to see your dream become a reality. All that work can blind us to the very things that we need to live and enjoy life - to enjoy your...
Leadership Lessons From Ke$ha
I am not sure how the magazines that end up on my dining room table get there. I’m pretty sure my wife has something to do with it. The other day, the November 2024 issue of Elle magazine was open to an article about the singer, Kesha. As a musician and observer of...