As spring arrives each year, it unearths more than just the daffodils and cherry blossoms. Amidst the blooming, the breeze and the sunlight, a certain restlessness often appears. You have finished your winter “hibernation”, you are ready to go out and play, but when you stand on the proverbial doorstep to the season, what’s in [...]

Published in Inc. Magazine - Bad chemistry between partners can break an otherwise solid company. These questions can help you tell whether you’ve got the right co-pilot. As a professional development coach, I spend a lot of time helping clients determine who they can trust in their careers. It’s a charged topic.  Professional relationships are often [...]

Take a minute and consider this question (as posed by Tom Rath in StrengthsFinder 2.0): Are you doing what you do best everyday? Whether you realize it or not, you have natural talents that are the key to your success.  But, you have been trained to think in terms of weaknesses, not strength.  It is [...]

  Do you ever find that when you give yourself more time to complete a task, you: (a)    Procrastinate and then work to the last minute to get it done, despite your intentions to the contrary; and/or (b)   Spend more time than necessary on the task, knowing you technically have the time to devote to [...]

Do you ever tell yourself: “If only I had more time in the day”? Here’s a shift for you:  forget about managing your time, and start managing your energy. Energy is our most precious resource.  The number of hours in our day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of energy is not. Here’s the [...]

This sad statistic is one of many reasons to place more attention on girls around the world.  Plan International is calling on the United Nations to declare September 22 International Day of the Girl. According to Plan, “[a]n International Day of the Girl will focus the world’s attention on the importance of girls’ rights.  It [...]

I recently attended a lunch at the Consulate General of Canada in New York with the Minister for the Status of Women, the Honourable Rona Ambrose, where a group of businesswomen engaged in a thought provoking discussion about female leadership, success, and women’s rights. The topics raised during the lunch had me thinking about my [...]