Defining your “success beyond success”
My mentor Fred Kofman taught me a principle decades ago that I use regularly for myself and in my work with women: know your "success beyond success." Success beyond success is how you want to BE based on your deeply-held values regardless of the situation....
Updating our snapshots of ourselves
It's so easy to work hard, gain skills, learn, grow, achieve impressive outcomes, hear others' accolades about ourselves AND NEVER OWN THAT WE'VE HIT MASTERY. Professional mastery creeps up on us. We chisel our unique gifts and amass year after year of...
Moving into your “next now”
In my work with high-achieving women, many are in the frightening and exciting question "what now?" exacerbated by the pandemic. The constant state of unknowns, employment situations that are not responsive to changing needs, new discoveries about what's most...
Gratitude amid the Colorado ashes
I live in Boulder, Colorado. The heart-wrenching events a few days ago have rocked our close-knit community. Boulder is known for many things pro and con, and/but one of them is empathy and sensitivity at times like this. (Our town has the highest number of therapists...
The power of your precision
Fasten your seat belts: it's a topic many of us like to avoid. I know. I'm one of the avoiders. Especially in these last two weeks of August when Summer is having its last hurrah and we know Fall will be here soon, we cling to "where the livin' is easy" as the old...
Letting Go/ Letting Come: Use this time of emergence to refresh your business/life
In my recent "Further Becoming" Workshop for Women, we applied the concept from Otto Scharmer's work of Letting Go/ Letting Come.U-theory teaches the criticality of the letting go/letting come of transformation. As women (and men) emerge from the pandemic, this has...