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Resilience Ready: The Leaders’s Guide to Thriving Through Unrelenting Crises

Buy the book on Kindle What challenge or crisis are you facing right now? Better yet, beware! Your next pull-your-hair-out crisis is right around the corner. You don’t know what it will be. You don’t know when it will come. But, you know it’s coming. It doesn’t have to be a global pandemic or an … Read more

The path to resilience is not a lonely road: partnerships matter

My spirits were lifted as I looked out my window and saw the birth of the first signs of spring. The clouds had cleared, and I could feel the warmth of the bright morning sun on my face. The trees were beginning to bud and daffodils were blooming. It seemed like the winter months would … Read more

Career Resilience for Women – 5 Actions to Take Now

A crisis throws you many curve balls. The COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. It’s changed practically everything. You’ve had to adapt on a dime, including in your career. Here are three significant trends women still need to watch out for… A Tight Job Market The impact of layoffs and furloughs is still being felt by … Read more

Dawn of a New Day

If you’re like me, you’re looking forward to ringing out 2020 and ringing in a new year.

5 Steps to Surviving a Layoff

Layoff… You may have been personally impacted or know someone who has. We’ve felt the impact in my family. An unexpected layoff or early retirement at any point in time brings with it a lot of anxiety and emotion. It raises serious questions that weigh heavy on your mind… “How can this happen after I’ve … Read more

Leading Through a Layoff

If you are a leader faced with having to furlough or layoff employees during this COVID-19 pandemic, you’re feeling the pressure. You’re having to make tough decisions about your workforce. Through this process, you need to consider not only how to have the conversations with those affected employees, but also the team that remains. In … Read more

“No Excuses” Monthly Guide to Transforming My Career

Count the number of times you’ve made a New Year’s resolution to be more intentional about working on your career. By the end of January, work and life have gotten so busy, you haven’t done anything. ‘My career’ gets pushed farther down on your to-do list. Contributing to the problem is the fact that you … Read more

Emotional Impact of Change

[Watch the video here.] During my executive leadership development session, we looked at three factors related to leading change that I know you can benefit from. Ask yourself these questions… First, have you considered how the volume of the change you’re asking employees to juggle is putting significant strain on the wellbeing of your workforce, … Read more

3 Myths C-Suite Executives Must Avoid

Your brightest talent is ready to walk out the door. Why? C-Suite executives are operating by three long-standing myths about leadership that don’t align with what you expect from others. Your operating leaders are stuck in the middle of this “do as I say, not as I do” culture. These three myths are sabotaging C-Suite executives. … Read more

Women of Color Navigating the Career Environment: Using Male Dominated Strategies to “FuelForward”

By: Vonya Hodrick & Vivian Blade Published by: National Career Development Association (NCDA) The article, Women of Color Navigating the Career Environment: Using Male Dominated Strategies to “FuelForward”, by Vonya Hodrick & Vivian Blade, originally appeared in NCDA’s web magazine, Career Convergence, at www.ncda.org. Copyright © June 2019. Reprinted with permission. The career environment is complex, with formal … Read more

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