As AI continues to change how we work, many of us are leading transformations while we are still trying to understand what those transformations will mean. We may be responsible for implementing an AI initiative, encouraging our teams to adopt it, and explaining why...
When Someone Starts to Pull Back Think about someone on your team who used to be energetic and contribute ideas. They spoke up, offered a different perspective, volunteered for stretch assignments, or challenged the team to think differently. Over time, something...
What Is the Behavior Saying? Monique DeMonaco spent much of her early life being told what was wrong with her. She grew up in rural poverty; both of her parents struggled with mental illness, and she had undiagnosed learning disabilities and petit mal seizures. At...
We can spend six months, sometimes a year, developing a strategy. We look at the data, debate priorities, consult across the organization, decide where we want to go, and eventually align around a North Star. However, we don't get to execute that strategy in a...
How does the way you present yourself reflect the leader you are? As our leadership careers progress, we spend years building expertise, credibility, relationships, and a track record of results. Yet we may give far less thought to whether other people can...
When we think about becoming better leaders or developing our talent, we usually focus on building new skills. We attend leadership programs, read books, hire coaches, and work on our communication, emotional intelligence, executive presence, and strategic thinking....
Leadership has never offered certainty. Yet today, we as leaders feel we're expected to have all the answers while navigating AI transformation, economic uncertainty, shifting employee expectations, and constant disruption. Somewhere along the way, we've created an...
Before the investigation starts or worse, the lawsuit lands, there is always the moment where we must decide. Do we pause to actually understand what’s happening? Or do we let pressure, emotions, and assumptions drive the bus? As leaders, we face these exact hurdles...
Organizations are investing billions of dollars into AI, automation, cloud modernization, and digital transformation initiatives. Technology has never been more powerful and the opportunities have never been greater. Yet many transformations still fail. And it’s...
There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from working hard. Most leaders can handle hard work. We’ve built careers on it. The deeper exhaustion comes from feeling there is no clear boundary between work and life anymore. Your mind never fully shuts...