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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…
Want a better handle on conflict? Try this
In my work coaching executive leaders for the past decade, I’ve learned that arriving at a solution too quickly doesn’t break through an impasse. In fact, that’s when things break…
When change is essential: how to take steps that stick
The Coach’s Corner Newsletter #112 Ever wonder if there’s any chance you can truly change things in your professional or personal life? I’m here to vouch for you – because…
When grief is overwhelming: how do you cope?
The Coach’s Corner Newsletter #111 There is sorrow and numbness and grief permeating every eye-witness account of horror, devastation and loss from last week’s catastrophic flash flooding along the Guadalupe…
The impact of people pleasing on your leadership
The Coach’s Corner Newsletter #110 The best leaders I work with use a mix of management styles to lead their teams. Author and psychologist, Daniel Goleman, has established six styles…
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…
Want a better handle on conflict? Try this
In my work coaching executive leaders for the past decade, I’ve learned that arriving at a solution too quickly doesn’t break through an impasse. In fact, that’s when things break…
When change is essential: how to take steps that stick
The Coach’s Corner Newsletter #112 Ever wonder if there’s any chance you can truly change things in your professional or personal life? I’m here to vouch for you – because…
When grief is overwhelming: how do you cope?
The Coach’s Corner Newsletter #111 There is sorrow and numbness and grief permeating every eye-witness account of horror, devastation and loss from last week’s catastrophic flash flooding along the Guadalupe…
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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.