Leadership consultant and executive coach | On earth to help people lead better and lead better lives | New York, NY
Jennifer Farrer and Robert E. Kaplan
When leaders are assessed to help them improve or to make staffing decisions, the final product — typically a set of strengths and weaknesses — is a superficial read that lacks coherence, lacks…
At the senior executive level, cultural fit is too important to leave to chance. About 40% of executives who change jobs or get promoted fail in the first 18 months. My colleagues and I have done autopsies on failed…
The Hidden Danger of Lacking Confidence
In the cover story of the May 2014 Atlantic, “The Confidence Gap” journalists Claire Shipman and Katty Kay addressed an obstacle that my colleagues and I experience almost daily in our work helping female executives overcome their leadership challenges. Put simply, the best and…
To Be a Better Runner (or Leader) You’ve Got to Up Your Mental Game
When a person’s form is off, either on the race course or in the boardroom, the problem is usually that they’re doing too much of some things and too little of other things.
