September is the time of the year most companies begin their strategic planning process. But what about your personal strategic plan? As part of my You Pivot™ Program, I suggest that my clients write a personal strategic plan. And I further recommend that they apply the techniques they have learned from business planning to this […]
Last week I wrote about the importance of telling your today story before answering the question, What is Your Tomorrow Story? One of the challenges I observe in my work as an executive life coach is we are often an unreliable narrator of our own story. Successful people tend to focus on what is next. They […]
Clients frequently ask me, “Am I the only one?” And, of course, the answer is always no. It doesn’t matter what actions or feelings you fill in at the end of this question; we share the human experience. Pivots are hard, and the challenges each of us experiences during life transitions are similar. For late-career […]
I recently bought a pair of the new lightweight wide-leg jeans. When I checked out, I commented to the salesman how comfortable the jeans were and said, “I sure hope they are in style for a while.” He responded, “I think they will be in style for a long time; people are over skinny jeans […]
I have news: I am excited to share that as a complement to my You Pivot™ Program, I have engaged with the University of Chicago’s Leadership & Society Initiative as a founding instructor and executive life coach. Humans have doodled throughout history. Yet, there tends to be judgment around it. We see someone doodling and […]
First, I have news: I am excited to share that as a complement to my You Pivot™ Program, I have engaged with the University of Chicago’s Leadership & Society Initiative as a founding instructor and executive life coach. Every now and then, the subject of fun comes up in a meeting with a client, with […]
One of the books I like to recommend to my You Pivot™ clients is Necessary Endings by Henry Cloud. In this book, Cloud uses a metaphor of rose bushes and compares them to our businesses, careers, and lives. He explains that a rose bush cannot support all the buds it creates. The beautiful ones only become […]
Should I stay or should I go? This is often the question facing clients participating in my You Pivot™ Program. The answer, of course, is it depends. A friend of mine called me recently with this exact question. He is a senior executive in his late sixties, planning to work until 70. This week the […]
Years ago, a friend said this to me. Her comment profoundly impacted me, and when I recently read this line in a book, I called her. After we talked about our memories of that conversation, she asked me if I would write about it, and I agreed. No one is coming. What does this even mean? […]
The initial results of my Pivot are excellent. I feel I have much greater clarity regarding the next 3-5 years.. more
