Amy Jen Su is managing director at executive coaching form Paravis Partners, and she’s been hearing some consistent themes in the trenches these days. Increasingly, her clients tell her, they are facing a serious time crunch while, at the same time, their organizations are becoming more global and complex. And these pressures, coupled with internal pressures to succeed, leave these executives feeling like they are getting in their own way.

This chorus of executive worries led Su to write her new book, The Leader You Want to Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self. Those principles are what she calls her five Ps: Purpose, process, people, presence, and peace. And in this episode of Skydeck, contributor April White talks to Su about how she developed those principles—and why real improvement requires a holistic approach, not just a lifestyle hack.

Monica Dodi on diversity as a competitive advantage for VCs

How the CEO of a Chicago charter school network picked up the pieces after a leadership crisis 

Space entrepreneur and investor Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux on how to search the skies for profits

Where and when alumni do their best thinking

How Seni Sulyman and Andela plan to turn the continent into a computing hub

Patrick McGinnis, who coined the term “fear of missing out,” on how it increasingly drives our personal and professional lives—and how we can manage it

Denise Murrell traded finance for fine arts—and cast a critical new eye on iconic paintings