inviteCHANGE's Podcast

Have you ever wondered about your optimal working pace? Psychologists and behavior experts often try to categorize us into fixed types, guiding our career choices. However, I've always felt that there is more to pace than meets the eye. In this blog, I delve into new brain research and its implications for learning, creativity, and organizational change. Discover the power of going slow to go fast, unlocking our internal resilience.

Additionally, I will share a wellbeing technique that has transformed my life and benefited the leaders I coach. Experience the growth of balance, wholeness, and aliveness. Give it a try and witness the difference.

Have you ever wondered about the intricate web of influences that shape your business? Are your leaders equipped with the necessary discernment and systemic thinking to navigate today's complex landscape? 

In this blog, I uncover these interwoven and interconnected forces. Explore this critical topic and delve into the importance of preparedness in the face of these interconnected dynamics.

If you are a person who views change as something done to you and out of your influence and control to define on your terms, then this writing is for you. You always have the power of choice and deeply knowing this to believe in your power of choices requires that you use some skills that humans often take for granted. Those skills include, noticing what captures your attention, pausing in that moment to identify the qualities that describe the experience of tension that are part of tension, reflecting on the habits that hold that tension as the enemy to stimulate curiosity that frees up choice about how we relate the conditions of our lives. 

This blog introduces four steps to practice in the week ahead to strengthen these skills and gain confidence in your power of choice in any domain of your life. 

Every leader I talk with today brings pace and complexity into conversations with an emotion described as “stressful.” Demands for more speed despite expanding complexity feel very tough to navigate. The challenge feels even tougher when multiple teams must collaborate to fulfill cross-functional objectives. One very important hack for leaders to adopt arises from perspective and learning how to shift attention to a systemic view of the situation. 

In this blog I offer some ideas for how to navigate both external and internal influences on getting work done by working more systemically and share five key behaviors any team who seeks to sustain high-performance can benefit from adopting.

Whether we accept an idea or reject an idea, we make a choice. Choice-making over time builds habits and preferences that operate on autopilot. When we realize we are unsatisfied with the outcomes of our autopilot choices we are often already suffering. Can you imagine yourself replacing that cycle with more deliberate change?  

I can for you because every person constructs their belief system that motivate those choices. That means we can deconstruct and reconstruct to pursue more relevant and valuable choices that better match our current experience versus our history. In this blog I offer a belief shift for more ease with change and how to start that shift process with four easy steps.

Give it a try! 

Have you considered that judgment is a gift, instead of something negative to be pushed away? 

Just imagine what could be available in your life - relationships, opportunities, emotions - if you considered judgment an inner compass that supports you to discern what is beneficial or not, and what does or doesn't align with your core values. Modern life presents enough complexity and uncertainty to make our heads spin, so why do we insist on dismissing an essential capability every human being possesses to make sense, bring certainty, and identify a respectful and simpler way to make choices and decide upon our actions? 

Listen for six easy steps to practice right now that help you harness our natural resource called judgment and harness it for higher impact leadership.

Wholeness is an often talked about idea that sounds good yet doesn’t match the reality of today’s business environment. Leaders often say, “yes, I want that and it’s just not reasonable to expect.” The irony is that wholeness is, it exists, and it is accessible when we give a bit more focus to our internal capacities for intuition, instinct, imagination, and an appreciation for seeing something we don’t already know. 

This blog puts some historical context around what makes it feel hard to be audaciously whole and offers five super easy practices to being unleashing wholeness in your uniquely audacious way. 

Research shows and can be confirmed by my personal experience that setting SMART goals doesn’t fuel commitment nor provide sufficient support when disruption and the unexpected occurs. It’s January, a common goal-setting time of the year. 

Since January in the US is a time to acknowledge the power of mentoring, this blog reveals a secret I use to super fuel commitment to goals and enjoy the journey of fulfilling those goals. It’s simpler than you might think!

The sage named Yoda in the movie Star Wars gets quoted often to say, “No try, just do.” The art of “doing” permeates modern culture through reaching milestones and fulfilling goals as the ultimate evidence of success. Yet, the data about our sense of balance and wholeness across all the parts our lives suggests the absence of success for so many.

This blog explores what could shift this gap by prioritizing our experience of “being” so that our “doing” arises from our essential strengths, inside-out, and authentically. Consider how leaders understand the key to optimizing potential by convening conversation spaces for team members to discover the intersection between personal purpose and enterprise purpose. Ready for the flow of the “being”? Dive in!

The first step in learning and growing requires us to accept that we don't know something. With the database of human knowledge changing now every 12 seconds, it's only possible to know some things, so by definition, we don't know some things. Welcome to National Mentoring Month 2024. 

In this blog, I share my personal story about mentors, as well as my own and my privilege to mentor others. You'll find four tips to identify and select a mentor that matches who you are, what you aspire to, and what you want. I've had many mentors over my lifetime, and every person has been a precious gift for me to become the person I am today. I thank all of them and welcome each of you to either begin or reignite the power of a mentoring relationship!