To be an effective leader, you must become likable. A characteristic that’s not talked about enough, your likability increases effort, trust, and growth for your teams and company.

In our tech-savvy world, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making waves, revolutionizing industries and automating tasks. While AI is a remarkable tool, there are aspects of professional value that it can never replicate.

As individuals navigating this AI-driven era, we possess unique qualities and skills deeply rooted in our humanity, setting us apart in the professional arena.

In this article, we'll explore how you can build professional value that AI simply can't match.

As Chat GPT is taking the world by storm, there are absolutely some great use cases, but when should you run the opposite direction and why? In this article I share why content creation is the wrong sweet spot for Chat GPT.

As the holiday season nears, I want to give you the gift of emotional freedom by encouraging you to use a couple of simple tricks when thinking about and communicating your emotions.

Emotional contagion is everywhere: meetings, emails, social media, and at home. So when we are constantly managing our own emotions, how are we to navigate the ever changing emotions of others?

In this new Inspirational Interruption, I share a couple of quick and easy ways to ensure that you won't succumb to the negative slide that others may take you on.

Yesterday, I spent some time with my two young sons teaching them how best to clean their rooms, do laundry, organize, etc. It was such a fun experience and I will say that they rocked it and were so engaged with wanting to learn how to care for their own space.

As my mind works though, I started seeing analogies between the different elements of cleaning and how we can be more productive and focused in our lives through the act of habit/situation cleaning.

This morning, I blocked a priority event on my calendar that was absolutely non-negotiable, and it was one of the best decisions I’ve made in a long, long time.

Brainstorming? Nope.

Team meeting? Nuh-uh.

Content creation? No (but that IS coming soon, stay tuned).

I attended Track & Field Day at my sons’ elementary school.

I literally paused before starting to type again because I thoroughly found so much joy in watching them, and their classmates, let loose on an absolutely perfect day. Then it struck me how often we as adults forget to just have fun with whatever we’re doing. Whether it’s work related, life related, or just personal time, we seem to have overloaded schedules of “stuff” and “meetings” that tend to pull our energy and drain us by the end of the day.

Many of the issues that leaders are facing nowadays come down to engagement and communication. Often deemed a “soft skill” (don’t get me started on that) emotional intelligence (EQ) is a critical skill to bridge the gaps that companies are seeing between their “leadership” and employee engagement.

So why is emotional intelligence so important in leadership?

Emotional intelligence accounts for 58% of your performance as a leader and almost 90% of all top performers have a high emotional intelligence.

In this newsletter, I will share the most impactful benefits of emotional intelligence for leaders and ways that you can increase your emotional intelligence in a few simple (and fun) minutes a day.

While disruption to your comfort may seem unappealing, there are numerous benefits to trying something new that you may be overlooking. These benefits can improve you both personally and professionally, so in this newsletter, I'll share both sides of the blessing of changing things up.

In this blog, I share a transformational mindset that I heard during a Peloton ride the other day about how we talk to ourselves every day.

This blog will not only have you realizing how much you probably talk down to yourself, but how to change that dynamic to rid yourselves of negative creep and impostor syndrome.

In a world filled with professional competition and personal goal-setting, we are constantly a work in progress trying to get better.

So how do we not only achieve success, but separate ourselves from the competition?

Become unstoppable.

In this new blog post, I share insights from my recent keynote for over 300 top performers from a top 20 bank.

I hope you enjoy and are motivated by the foundational elements in this piece.

Negativity can come in numerous forms including cynicism, hostility, filtering, blaming, or polarized thinking. By not having control over emotions, these actions are brought through conversation (in front of the person or behind their backs), online bullying, abrupt and coarse email exchanges and a variety of other methods.

Having seen this happen to a number of friends and colleagues as of late, I wanted to put this quick article together to support those who are in the onslaught of this bad behavior.