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I wrote a story about my mother’s influence on my success, something I didn’t discover until after she died. If you haven’t read it already, please read the post on Huffington at http://huff.to/c7Owad.

I wish this weekend to be a celebration for all women who birth, whether babies or grand ideas, and all of you who nurture others to realize their amazing potential.

If you have a dog or cat, I bet you look them in the eyes and tell them you love them. Iams, the pet food company, found that 91 percent of customers answering a survey admitted whispering those three little words to their furry friends. Why do we do this less often with our humans?

We sometimes hide things from those we love because we are afraid they won’t love us if they find out, or worse, they will laugh at us which could crush our vulnerable dreams.

Here are four wonderful lessons from a movie that shows us what happens when we keep secrets.

The Musical Instruments Museum is the world’s first museum to display instruments from around the world with video clips at each station showing locals playing their music. There is a rich diversity of sound. Yet the museum brings all cultures together as you experience something common to us all–people sharing their stories, their passions and their expression of life through music. I learned a few valuable lessons from my tour of the museum.

I am working with two professional organizations on a similar problem—the leaders do not feel the local chapters represent the image and message of the parent organization.
The problem is that in the last three years, as their members scramble to get business and survive, they lose touch with broader more theoretical missions of their organizations.
What [...]

Many of my coaching clients laugh when the concept of work/life balance is mentioned. Some have come to resent it because it implies their overachieving ways are unhealthy and should be changed. Why should they feel guilty about not wanting to stare at their navels when they would rather obsessively do what they love? [...]

Blogging opens us up to ridicule. But if you are being true to your mission and message, then bringing out the naysayers strengthens your emotional resiliency. Read more…

I read an article in the Wall Street Journal that described how our cultures have been shaped by how leaders use their brains. Although the article didn’t state outright that left-brain dominant leaders are at the source of our problems, this is implied in the text. Since men tend to be the heavier users of [...]

Changing your life is all about emotions–acting on them, giving in to them, being sabotaged by them, or being driven to success.
When you want to make a change in your life, you usually want to feel something different than what you are feeling now, right? You may have a desire to feel something more, such [...]

Appreciative Dialogue is based on the popular approach to organizational change called Appreciative Inquiry that focuses people on what’s working rather than trying to fix what’s not. This is an excellent technique to use when you feel stuck and can’t solve a problem. Taking an appreciative approach, you see your issue through a new lens, [...]