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Confidence Isn’t Something You Do
One thing that has come up repeatedly in my coaching conversations recently is confidence. What strikes me is how often very capable, experienced people believe confidence is something they need to do. They tell themselves they need to prepare more, think more, polish more, or rehearse more. If they can just get the slides perfect […]
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Executive Presence Isn’t Polish, It’s Trust
I recently read a Fast Company article describing executive presence as “the new currency of business growth.” It struck me because it names something that comes up constantly in my work with senior leaders, even if people rarely say it quite that directly.
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When Your Job Shakes, You Don’t Have To
In a world of restructures, “strategic realignments” and never-ending change, it’s no surprise that so many high-achieving professionals feel like the ground beneath them is never fully stable.
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We spend a lot of time preparing the visible parts of a presentation: the slides, the structure, the talking points, and the data. All of that matters, of course, but in the age of AI, where polished words can be generated in seconds, I think the real difference is becoming much more human. People are […]
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A client said something to me recently that stuck with me. “I’m not sure I’m the right person to say it.” She is senior, experienced and very capable. She knows her subject. People respect her, but in the moment that mattered, she held back. Not because she didn’t have a point, and not because she […]
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I’ve just got back from Japan, and there’s one small detail I can’t stop thinking about. Not the temples, the food, or the neon, but crossing the road. In Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto, the cities felt calm, clean, and efficient. The pace was different. At pedestrian crossings, even when there were no cars, people waited […]
In a world of restructures, “strategic realignments” and never-ending change, it’s no surprise that so many high-achieving professionals feel like the ground beneath them is never fully stable. At the recent Women In Research (WIRe) event at Netflix HQ, London, Show Up For Yourself, I shared a simple idea that landed deeply with the room: […]
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