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Post-Traumatic Growth in the Waiting Room
What Caregivers Know About Leadership in Hard Seasons The player grand piano, not to mention a live ensemble today, in the lobby of the radiation waiting room is an unexpected…
What Trauma-Informed Leadership Looks Like
Cultivating conditions for post-traumatic growth In the past few years, it’s been hard to escape the impact of sudden layoffs, working in a hostile environment, feeling like AI may displace…
How Trauma Shows Up on Your Team
It’s been more than a hard week If you’ve been part of a start‑up, at any level, you know how quickly tension can spiral from “a rough stretch” to feeling…
When Hard Seasons Change Us
Post-Traumatic Growth at Work For years I’ve been intrigued by how differently people respond when they face a difficult upheaval. In 1996, reporting on the aftermath of the war in…
Design your own HIIT strategy
When I first started PT for my Achilles tear, I assumed the big gains would come during my appointments. I quickly learned something I didn’t expect. The difference‑maker wasn’t the…
You’ve been avoiding that tough conversation
Story: Putting it off How do you begin your day and stay focused? Maybe you follow a routine, blocking time for reflection, exercise, school drop-offs, finishing projects, and meeting with…
Inspiring critical thinking
When leaders shift from fixing to coaching their team Story: Let someone do their job Age doesn’t matter when you find yourself doing someone else’s work. I discovered this week…
Create intentional space between meetings
Taking a moment to breathe and refocus improves how you show up. Story: Racing from call to call I’m pretty sure you’ve been there. You look ahead to your day,…
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…
Post-Traumatic Growth in the Waiting Room
What Caregivers Know About Leadership in Hard Seasons The player grand piano, not to mention a live ensemble today, in the lobby of the radiation waiting room is an unexpected…
What Trauma-Informed Leadership Looks Like
Cultivating conditions for post-traumatic growth In the past few years, it’s been hard to escape the impact of sudden layoffs, working in a hostile environment, feeling like AI may displace…
How Trauma Shows Up on Your Team
It’s been more than a hard week If you’ve been part of a start‑up, at any level, you know how quickly tension can spiral from “a rough stretch” to feeling…
When Hard Seasons Change Us
Post-Traumatic Growth at Work For years I’ve been intrigued by how differently people respond when they face a difficult upheaval. In 1996, reporting on the aftermath of the war in…
Design your own HIIT strategy
When I first started PT for my Achilles tear, I assumed the big gains would come during my appointments. I quickly learned something I didn’t expect. The difference‑maker wasn’t the…
You’ve been avoiding that tough conversation
Story: Putting it off How do you begin your day and stay focused? Maybe you follow a routine, blocking time for reflection, exercise, school drop-offs, finishing projects, and meeting with…
Inspiring critical thinking
When leaders shift from fixing to coaching their team Story: Let someone do their job Age doesn’t matter when you find yourself doing someone else’s work. I discovered this week…
Create intentional space between meetings
Taking a moment to breathe and refocus improves how you show up. Story: Racing from call to call I’m pretty sure you’ve been there. You look ahead to your day,…
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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.