From my desk to yours
I believe the best leadership insights come from lived experience, not theory. Every two weeks, I share a personal story about leadership, worth, and what it takes to show up authentically. These are honest letters about the moments that changed how I lead and the lessons I'm still learning. Each letter includes questions for reflection and one practice you can use this week.
Grade nine in the 1980s meant a lot of things: big hair, shoulder pads, neon everything, and Cyndi Lauper rallying girls to just have fun. It was also the time...
Did you notice? This newsletter went from weekly to every two weeks, and yet I didn't say anything. No announcement or explanation, I just quietly changed the...
Last week, I sat down to record the introduction for my speaker reel. I intentionally wasn’t using a script because I wanted it to feel warm, conversational, natural, like I was just talking to you. What I got instead was...
It's been a big couple of weeks. I delivered a new signature keynote, The Courage to Define and Own Your Worth, to 150 people in a college gymnasium, recorded three podcast episodes, and led three...
I looked at my calendar this week and saw the next two weeks laid out in perfect blocks. Three podcast recordings. One keynote. Three workshops. Every hour accounted for, every deliverable planned, every prep session...
Flexibility sounds like freedom. But when you work from home, especially when you run your own business, flexibility can become a trap. There's no commute to create...
A leader I once worked with had a rule at the start of every weekly leadership meeting. It didn’t start with an agenda or business updates. Instead, we would go around the table for a...
Have you ever put off an honest conversation longer than you should have? I had a manager on my team, who was seasoned with many years of tenure, and oversaw a large territory. He knew the business better than anyone, myself included, but his performance was...
We were launching a new multi-year strategic plan, and a new leader had just joined the team: a self-proclaimed disruptor tasked with adapting the global plan to the Canadian market and driving record growth. One of the categories poised for huge growth was...
It was the end of the season, and I'd been invited to a friendly golf competition as part of our sponsorship of a national program. Premium golf course, cool fall temperatures, great competition, and lots of laughs. As usual, I was the...
We met for coffee on a Tuesday afternoon. An hour blocked out, the usual spot, the same kind of catch-up we’d been doing for months. They talked about work, the difficult colleague, the project that wasn’t...
When I was leading the FootJoy brand in Canada, we were moving into men's apparel beyond our initial outerwear offering. The product was solid. We were entering a crowded market, and if we launched like everyone else, we'd get...