
Last year, I received assessment results that rocked me. My immediate response wasn’t curiosity. It was resistance. That can’t be right. Power? That doesn’t match how I see myself at all. The assessment revealed that my need for influence—to drive outcomes, make an impact—was shaping my leadership in ways I hadn’t seen. I tend to […]

Here’s a question most leaders never stop to ask themselves: What do you want to be known for? Not your title. Not your résumé. Not the projects you’ve delivered or the problems you’ve solved. But the way people experience your leadership—what they say about you when you’re not in the room. Most of us have […]

Last January, I sat down with my journal and made a list of leadership goals for the year. Stay laser-focused on what’s working. Maintain healthy ambitions. Let “good enough” actually be good enough. You know what happened? I kept doing the exact same things I’d always done. Because I never actually stopped to ask myself […]

I want to tell you about my first week in a new leadership role. I was the newest person on the team. Everyone else had been there for years. I didn’t know the systems, the culture, or the unwritten rules yet. So I did what felt natural: I was first in, last out. Every day. […]