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Crush Your Goals in 2022

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If you want to make things happen for your job and your career next year, and you want to set some goals to help you get there, you will want to download my free Crush Your Goals step-by-step workbook.

Supercharge Your Day

The *Secret* to Actually Getting Ahead in Your Workweek (without adding another huge thing to your to-do list)

Designed for driven women leaders, this 2-hour program packs a punch, teaching you how to manage your time more effectively and boost your career success. Supercharge Your Day is the ultimate framework for prioritizing your workday and increasing your confidence to take on larger roles—without guilt or burnout!

Teams That Trust

Advanced Communication for Complex Teams

Next Skills Camp:

November 6th & 20th

Saturday 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Pacific


The ability to work together interdependently is one of our least developed skills. Yet, it is the most vital in today’s landscape. The communication skill of connecting with others – and creating the emotional space for others to open up – requires deep trust. Without trust, leaders and teams struggle to achieve extraordinary results. In two 4-hour sessions, you will discover the underpinnings of trust and how to build trust at all levels.

Amplify Your Executive Presence

Develop your influence, be seen as a rising leader

Learn how to develop your leadership foundation, executive presence and leadership brand to gain influence in an authentic way that brings your personal strengths to the forefront. You will develop your gravitas and confidence to be seen as a leader while navigating the social influences that women must contend with in order to be successful in our current environment.

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The Strategic Leader’s Mindset Shift

August 14, 20261 min read

Your greatest strength has become your greatest limitation.

Getting things done got you every job you have ever had. It will not get you the next one.

It was one of the hardest shifts to hear in yesterday's masterclass, so I am saying it again for everyone who missed it.

Every promotion from expert to leader asks for the same shift. It just shows up in different places.

🚩 Meeting requirements is the work.
🟢 Questioning requirements is the job.

🚩 An expert performer is valuable.
🟢 A context creator is promotable.

🚩 Output is what you finished.
🟢 Outcomes are what changed because you finished it.

The doing mindset is not a flaw.

It is the operating system that made you excellent, running past the point where excellence changed jobs.

You will not make all 12 shifts at once. You will recognize yourself in one of them today.

Save this one. It is a checklist for a transition, and transitions take longer than a scroll.

Infographic titled “The Strategic Leader’s Mindset Shift” showing the shift from a doing mindset to a strategic leader mindset. It contrasts meeting requirements with questioning requirements, improving performance with changing the game, managing resources with creating options, responding to the market with shaping the market, optimizing parts with transforming wholes, playing within the rules with rewriting rules, seeking certainty with finding opportunities, answering questions with questioning answers, being an expert performer with being a context creator, using time for tasks with using time for thinking, measuring success by output with measuring outcomes, and managing complexity with eliminating complexity.

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Crush Your Goals in 2022

Yearly Planner

If you want to make things happen for your job and your career next year, and you want to set some goals to help you get there, you will want to download my free Crush Your Goals step-by-step workbook.

Supercharge Your Day

The *Secret* to Actually Getting Ahead in Your Workweek (without adding another huge thing to your to-do list)

Designed for driven women leaders, this 2-hour program packs a punch, teaching you how to manage your time more effectively and boost your career success. Supercharge Your Day is the ultimate framework for prioritizing your workday and increasing your confidence to take on larger roles—without guilt or burnout!

Teams That Trust

Advanced Communication for Complex Teams

Next Skills Camp:

November 6th & 20th

Saturday 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Pacific


The ability to work together interdependently is one of our least developed skills. Yet, it is the most vital in today’s landscape. The communication skill of connecting with others – and creating the emotional space for others to open up – requires deep trust. Without trust, leaders and teams struggle to achieve extraordinary results. In two 4-hour sessions, you will discover the underpinnings of trust and how to build trust at all levels.

Amplify Your Executive Presence

Develop your influence, be seen as a rising leader

Learn how to develop your leadership foundation, executive presence and leadership brand to gain influence in an authentic way that brings your personal strengths to the forefront. You will develop your gravitas and confidence to be seen as a leader while navigating the social influences that women must contend with in order to be successful in our current environment.