What are You Investing In? In the course of my work, I have been privileged to work with leaders from different spheres of life. I like that I get to learn from their years of experience. Recently at a Mastermind Group session, the coach asked a question that got me thinking. She asked, “What are you investing in?” The […]

Anxiety in Leadership Greetings Brave Reader!  Life, by its very nature, evolves in patterns of Seasonality. We are given to experiencing life in peaks and troughs. Peaks speak to winning seasons of varied accomplishments. Release of life affirming endorphins which trigger feelings of positivity, euphoria → I can conquer the world, Bring it ON! Conversely, troughs are those seasons […]

Should You Grieve as a Leader? Grief is a natural response to death or loss. I perceive the grieving process as an opportunity to appropriately mourn a loss and then heal. The process is helped when you acknowledge grief, find support, and allow time for grief to work. We do not only experience grief on […]

Courageous Leadership In my previous article, I wrote about character in leadership. Today, I will add onto that statement and say that true leadership requires courageous character. Have you ever found yourself in a situation where everything is going completely wrong! The reason for everything going wrong is YOU. You overlooked, forgot or omitted to […]

Character in Leadership “What you do in secret will always show up in public” The question of leadership and character assumes that leadership is a role because it is roles that imply responsibilities. Roles like father, mother, teacher, lighthouse keeper, captain, etc all have certain responsibilities. But if leadership isn’t a role but an act […]

The Best Dreams Happen When We Are Awake We have heard it said time and time again that the graveyard is the richest place on earth. How we live today will determine if we will contribute to the wealth lying in the cemetery or not. It is no surprise that we will all end up […]

Vulnerability in Leadership As she spoke, her words cut like a knife. “I am tired of you people of “you people” saying that you see this and that in me. That you see great potential in me. That I need to course-correct certain things in my life and take responsibility. That I am lying to […]

Loneliness in Leadership I have been out of the country for about a month and recently returned. As I went about the business that took me there, I decided to take a hard look at the society I was in and the way people live. I took a personal assessment of the degree of happiness, […]

Intentionally Connecting To be a leader, you must have followers. Right? People will follow us for different reasons. Might be coercion or providing an incentive. True leadership, however, is when people follow you voluntarily because they believe in you and buy into your vision. Times and seasons change but over the years there have been […]