Executive Leadership Coach, Author
🎉🚨 The short and sweet: the book Sara and I have been working on since 2020 is officially available for preorder and launching on April 8, 2025! You can learn more about it, request a sample chapter, and preorder the book on our site ! We now live in a time when billionaires are stating that companies need more “masculine energy.” Diversity, inclusion, and equity are removed from an entire…
So much conflict and tension of work comes back to three things that I have struggled with in my own career as a founder and executive and that I now regularly help my clients overcome.
It’s easy to get frustrated when your team is making decisions you don’t agree with. They’re picking the wrong tools, the wrong level of complexity, or decide to do that rewrite despite the unpredictable effort and likely ballooning scope.
“What are you going to do once I’ve joined?” is what a candidate asked me when I hired a VP Engineering. As CTO, I couldn’t give my team the attention they needed, being many timezones away from most of them.
When I ask my team for feedback, should I allow them to submit anonymously? Especially when asking for potentially critical feedback or hoping you’ll find out how teams and projects are doing, this is a tricky question.
More than six years ago, I was looking for a new role. Little did I know that what I ended up finding was a friend and business partner with whom I’ve been having a regular standing one-on-one from day one of us working together.
Over the last couple of years, my focus has been shrinking. Our collective focus has been shrinking. There’s the pandemic that altered our lives in ways we hadn’t thought possible. There’s climate change, changing our lives in ways we don’t yet know. And then there’s social media, our phones, and all the apps constantly vying for what little attention we have.
This is a summary from a recent Twitter thread I shared (which does explain the short paragraphs, I hope).
When you‘re in the midst of starting a business, while also writing a book, like me and my business partner Sara currently are with The Intentional Organization, your mind can feel all over the place. It‘s constantly overwhelmed by not knowing what to do and where to go next. There’s just so much to do, and you get a pick of the litter of what you might want to do next. Meanwhile I have handfuls…
Today, my business partner and former CEO, [Sara Hicks](https://twitter.com/saralouhicks), and myself, are thrilled to introduce our new venture: The Intentional Organization, a coaching practice and a forthcoming book. Learn about our story and what we're building! 