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When leadership meets real-life limits
Defining where you draw the line for yourself, your team and your org Story: Sharing your limits A leader approached me this month wanting to get more clarity on balancing…
Are you stuck in decision drag?
The gap between leaders who decide and those who delay Story: Decision drag or decision velocity How do you, as a leader, make a critical decision? Maybe you decide as…
What’s the real issue?
Find the ‘thing under the thing’ before your next hard conversation Your boss gives you feedback you feel is unwarranted. Turns out he wanted more communication. Here’s how to turn…
Taking the Sting out of Feedback
Giving feedback isn’t scary because of the words. It’s scary because we’re afraid of damaging a relationship. Here’s the 5‑step script I use with the leaders I coach to take…
Listen for the Whole Story
Story: It’s not about you every time Are you listening to hear what someone has to share, or using every chance to play a kind of charades with your team?…
Start Meetings with a Question
In Leadership Core, I’m tackling everyday leadership challenges with HIIT‑style intervals: short, focused practices you can run between meetings to strengthen how you lead. Story: Invite people into the conversation…
Coming Back
Story: Breakthrough. For the past four months I’ve been quieter than I planned. A ruptured Achilles and weeks of PT forced me to slow down and pay more attention than ever…
A fresh way to solve problems…and finally step out of the weeds
What if you could take any tough topic, find insight to shift your thinking, and build a simple plan for resolving the complication? Many executive clients come to me…
3 unexpected lessons from my Achilles rupture
As an executive coach to leaders across the spectrum, I offer tools and resources on just about any issue. But who knew how soon I’d have to lean into some…
When leadership meets real-life limits
Defining where you draw the line for yourself, your team and your org Story: Sharing your limits A leader approached me this month wanting to get more clarity on balancing…
Are you stuck in decision drag?
The gap between leaders who decide and those who delay Story: Decision drag or decision velocity How do you, as a leader, make a critical decision? Maybe you decide as…
What’s the real issue?
Find the ‘thing under the thing’ before your next hard conversation Your boss gives you feedback you feel is unwarranted. Turns out he wanted more communication. Here’s how to turn…
Taking the Sting out of Feedback
Giving feedback isn’t scary because of the words. It’s scary because we’re afraid of damaging a relationship. Here’s the 5‑step script I use with the leaders I coach to take…
Listen for the Whole Story
Story: It’s not about you every time Are you listening to hear what someone has to share, or using every chance to play a kind of charades with your team?…
Start Meetings with a Question
In Leadership Core, I’m tackling everyday leadership challenges with HIIT‑style intervals: short, focused practices you can run between meetings to strengthen how you lead. Story: Invite people into the conversation…
Coming Back
Story: Breakthrough. For the past four months I’ve been quieter than I planned. A ruptured Achilles and weeks of PT forced me to slow down and pay more attention than ever…
A fresh way to solve problems…and finally step out of the weeds
What if you could take any tough topic, find insight to shift your thinking, and build a simple plan for resolving the complication? Many executive clients come to me…
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Born in India to an Armenian father and Danish mother, Lois is the author of Hybrid: The Transformation of a Cross-Cultural People Pleaser, which explores the challenges of growing up as a third culture kid and the identity issues that haunted her until she stopped living for others and started charting her own course.