This is where the internal work meets the external world. These articles address the actual dynamics of leading inside organizations, setting and holding boundaries, navigating authority, having difficult conversations, managing up, and operating effectively in systems that weren’t designed with you in mind.
How to Say No at Work Without Losing Credibility A client said no to leading the year-end strategy council two years ago, and the room went quiet in a way that told me everything. Nobody said it out loud. But she watched three people recalculate what they thought they knew about her, right there in […]
The Glass Cliff: Why Women Get the Leadership Role When Everything Is Already on Fire You were the one they called when things got difficult. The role had been sitting empty for months, or the person before you had just left under circumstances nobody wanted to explain. Suddenly you were the obvious choice. It felt […]
Promotion Gap: Women of colour in leadership The data has been consistent for years. Only 74 women of colour are promoted to manager for every 100 men. You may have already memorized that number. You may have sat in rooms where you could feel the gap without needing the statistic to name it. What troubles […]
Why asking for help is one of the most strategic things a leader can do, and why so many women can’t. You will figure it out yourself before you ask for help. You will stay late, lose sleep, and carry the weight of something that would take someone else ten minutes to sort out, and […]
Emotional Climate at Work: Your Real Leadership Performance Metric Most leaders measure the wrong thing. They watch revenue, deadlines, output, and deliverables, the numbers that show up on the dashboard. Those numbers matter. But they’re lagging indicators. By the time they shift, the cause has already happened weeks earlier somewhere upstream, in something that […]
The leaders who struggle most with boundaries aren’t the ones who don’t care. They’re the ones who care the most and have confused caring with being endlessly available. The way boundaries get misunderstood at work When most people hear the word “boundaries” in a professional context, they think of the assertiveness tips from […]
