Welcome back to the Summer Leadership Toolkit!
Last year, 42 women in our programs earned promotions ā and collectively increased their compensation by almost $1M!
Candidly, several came to me shortly after earning their promotion and asked:
āJamie, do you have the ā...
Hereās resource #2 of 4 in the Summer Leadership Toolkit Series!
Last week, I shared one of my favorite free leadership resources to help you grow your confidence, strengthen your skills, and lead with greater impact: How to Prepare for a Difficult Conversation.
If yo...
Welcome to our Summer Leadership Toolkit, a four-part series designed to help you grow your confidence, strengthen your skills, and lead with greater impact.
Weāre starting today with resource 1 of 4 - A tool to help you get past a difficult conversation.
Let's be hon...
What if becoming a stronger leader had less to do with changing who you are... and more to do with becoming more of yourself?
For years, many of us have been taught that executive presence means speaking louder, being tougher, hiding emotion, or fitting into someone el...
Who do you have the most conversations with on any given day?
- Your boss?
- Your team?
- Your partner?
- Your dog?
Actually, the answer is yourself.
Most of us don't even realize how constant that conversation is. Our inner voice is always thereānarrating, commenting...
For years, we've heard that IQ gets you hired and EQ keeps you happy and gets you promoted.
As artificial intelligence continues to take over more analytical and technical tasks, that truth is becoming even more relevant. The skills that make us indispensable aren't ju...
There is something that happens in a room full of curious, intelligent women who are there to learn, connect, and lift each other up.
You can feel it quickly ā even if you walked in nervous, even if you didn't know a single person, even if you almost talked yourself ou...
I am right-handed. I have always worn my watch on my right wrist, face inward.
Yes. Right wrist. Face pointing at me.
Before you say anything, just know I've been playfully teased about this many times. But I always had my reasons. When I'm writing, my wrist is alread...
You know that feeling when everything keeps changing?
A new leader steps in.
A team member shifts.
Industry conditions evolve.
Customer priorities move.
And suddenly, it feels like youāre standing in the middle of a non-stop wheel of changeātrying not to get flung into n...
So many leadership challenges come back to one core skill: communication.
How do you influence without forcing?
How do you stay calm under pressure?
How do you have a difficult conversation without making it worse?
Different situations ā but the same foundation: Emotion...
My sister recently encouraged me to get a weighted vest.
Weighted vests are a fitness trend. And because my brain loves to turn just about everything into a leadership metaphor, here we go!
When someone wears a weighted vest, you can see the vest, but you canāt feel t...
Somewhere along the way, Emotional Intelligence got tossed into the āsoft skillsā bucket.
Which, IMO, is a darn shame.
There is nothing soft about staying calm under pressure, reading the room, navigating a difficult conversation, influencing without authority, or res...