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The Important Benefits of Being Grateful at Work

A few years ago, I was talking to Erica Fox, who at the time was the Head of Learning Programs at Google. I had partnered with her and her team quite a lot over the years, delivering seminars for Google employees around the world. After attending one of my seminars, she came up with an […]

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Are You Bringing Your Whole Self to Work?

For us to truly succeed, especially in today’s business world, we must be willing to bring our whole selves to the work that we do. And for the teams and organizations that we’re a part of to thrive, it’s also essential to create an environment where people feel safe enough to bring all of who […]

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It Takes Courage to Put Ourselves Out There

In the past few weeks I’ve been thinking a lot about the courage it takes to step out, take risks, and put ourselves out there. Even though I know how important this is for growth, in business, and for life – I still find it tricky, scary, and challenging at times. I also realize it’s […]

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How Men Can Support Women and Empower Female Leadership

Like millions of people around the world, I was deeply moved and inspired by the recent speech Oprah Winfrey gave at the Golden Globe awards.  If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend checking out the video. Oprah touched on, among other things, the cultural moment we’re in right now with respect to sexual harassment […]

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Men…We Have to Do Better

Hearing the news about Matt Lauer being fired by NBC for inappropriate sexual behavior made me feel sad, angry, and confused in many ways. Over the past few months with everything that came out about Harvey Weinstein, the #MeToo campaign that exploded on social media, and the men who have been singled out for their harassment, abuse, […]

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‘Whole Self’ Culture Key to Thriving Organizations

How does a culture of healthy, high expectations, balanced by nurturance, enable individuals and organizations to achieve greater fulfillment, competitive advantage, and success? How can companies create an environment where their employees feel safe and encouraged to take risks, give more of themselves while maintaining balance, and deliver results? And, what does it mean to […]

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Be a Force for Good

In the wake of some of the recent events in our country and our world, I’ve been finding it challenging to focus on the good stuff, which is something I’ve been both teaching and practicing in my life over the past almost two decades.  As I’ve been looking at this more deeply, I realize that […]

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Step Into Your Power

I spoke with my friend and bestselling author Gabrielle Bernstein on this week’s episode of my podcast.  Gabby and I talked about, among other things, the importance of us stepping into our power, especially in our work. It can be scary for me and most of the people I know to fully own who we […]

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Expand Your Capacity for Trust

Trust can be tricky for many of us, myself included.  It can be scary, seem naïve, and feel vulnerable.  We often spend a lot of time and energy shielding ourselves from failure, being taken advantage of, or having our trust violated.  What are we really protecting ourselves from? As someone said to me many years […]

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We’re All In This Together

Like so many people here in the United States and around the world, I’ve had a very strong reaction to our election.  Given the pre-election polls, I was shocked by the outcome, and given how I voted, I was disappointed by it.  As I’ve ridden the roller coaster of intense emotions over the past week […]

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