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How Are You Doing With Self-Prioritization? Three Key Questions to Ask Yourself
Let us reflect a bit on that thing that often gets overlooked: our own well-being and personal growth. When we neglect our own health and happiness, it can have a significant impact on those around us too. With that in mind, I want you to ask yourself three simple questions.
The Unveiled Way Way
The Unveiled Way is a marathon and not a sprint. It is a journey of unveiling and evolving into the leader you need to become to make your impact. Learn more
Cultivate Your Leadership Presence
Your personal brand is a blueprint for how you want the world to see you in your business/profession. A large aspect of your personal brand is your leadership presence. Leadership presence is tied very closely to your own beliefs about yourself, your confidence in your abilities, your "POSTURE" as a leader and your visual presentation. Learn more
It’s Your Time to Shine Girl Book Launch!
I am so excited that my book, It’s Your Time to Shine Girl, is finally published! This leadership and empowerment book for women is just the inspiration, motivation, and GPS navigator women need to elevate their career and bring their brand of leadership to their professional arena.
Cultivating Your Leadership Brand
As a leader on the rise or rising, personal branding is important because it is a way for you to establish and consistently reinforce who you are and what you uniquely offer in the workplace. Use my What is Your Leadership Brand assessment to begin to craft a powerful brand that can represent you authentically as a leader.
Blaze Your Trail To Light the Way For Those Behind You
When you blaze a new trail, you have the authority and influence to turn around and light the way for the other women behind you, who found their purpose on your trail. If you believe that every woman is meant to shine in her brilliance by bringing her unique gifts to the fore, also believe that you may be that “First,” to help her see what is possible for her.
Called to Rise. No More Playing Small, Leader!
I have a vision that women are called to rise for such a time as the one we are experiencing right now. In this vision, with women collectively leading in their brilliance, their influence and impact is unstoppable. Yet so many of us play small. This is a testimony to motivate you to rise.
Leverage Your Leadership Presence: Part 2
Leadership presence is not a given based on your title, smarts, expertise, or leadership skill, but is a quality that needs to be cultivated and managed. Read Part 1 to understand how Command influences your presence. In this post, we’ll explore the power of your Connection, Communication, and your Clothing & Appearance on how you are perceived as a leader.
Leverage Your Leadership Presence: Part 1
Your leadership presence is part of your image. Call it poise, composure, command skills, or clout. Whatever you call it, when someone of significance walks into a room, you know it. Discover how you can cultivate your leadership presence.
The Benefits of Partnering with a Career & Leadership Coach
Hiring a leadership coach is a smart choice for helping women explore their current goals and ambitions, leverage and mobilize their strengths, gain more self-awareness, and achieve new or higher objectives. Here are a few specific benefits purpose-driven women can expect from career and leadership coaching.
Are You Emotionally Intelligent to Lead Effectively?
Possessing Emotional Intelligence or EQ is a crucial component of leadership. Having strong EQ means you can be aware of, control, and express your emotions, as well as handle your professional relationships empathetically. Here are a few EQ basics to ensure you lead impactfully.
Leading in the Unknown
As leaders it’s hard to move and operate in that space of not knowing, having to trust that every faithful step you take will eventually lead you to the right course of action. Here’s a perspective of leading in uncertainty.
Three Leadership Lessons I Learned From Teaching
Teachers make the best leaders, and they have much to teach us about leadership. Leveraging my experience as an adjunct lecturer I share three lessons I learned teaching Community College students, and how those lessons apply to all types of leaders.
Cultivating a Leadership Style True to You
As a leader on the rise, on the make, in transition, or settled in her role, how do you cultivate a leadership style that is aligned with the very best of who you are? The truth is, your values, your persona, your character, your faith, personality, strengths, weaknesses, all inform how you lead others. Here are a few tips to begin your exploration of your style.
5 Strategies to Boost your Leadership Visibility
Visibility is one of the most needed career strategies for aspiring leaders yet one of the hardest to execute. It is especially hard for women who need to do more to prove their competence. Increasing your visibility takes intentionality and strategy. Here are five proven strategies to help you authentically level up your visibility.
Self-Promote Authentically & Effectively
Self-promotion gets a bad rap among women but it doesn’t have to. The truth is that for you to achieve recognition for your accomplishments and successes, your contribution needs to be visible. But it's only visible if you are intentional about making it so. Discover key ways to self-promote authentically and effectively.
Designed to Lead: 7 Leadership Styles Grounded in Your Strengths
So many female professionals are leaders or leaders on the rise and don’t realize or acknowledge it. There are a few myths about leaders that hold women back. But the truth is you were designed to lead in a style that is unique to you, based on your innate strengths. Discover your leadership style and embrace the fulfillment of leading authentically.
Brand Brilliance Breakthrough: Authenticity
Authenticity in branding is about being genuine and real. It is one of the five pillars I talk about in creating a R.E.A.D.Y. brand, and it’s one of my brand attributes as a woman and business owner. Michelle Obama is a prominent, authentic brand. She has mastered the art of being relevant, relatable, and down-to-earth, regardless of where you encounter her. Here are some ways you can cultivate authenticity as a brand attribute.
The Secret To Strengthening Your Career Brand
Imagine designing a career where you can make a significant impact doing work that is rewarding, meaningful, aligned with your strengths and talents, and makes you fulfilled. Here’s a secret to doing just that.
More Strategies For Managing Imposter Syndrome in Your Career
While there is no perfect hack to rid you of imposter syndrome indefinitely, practicing these tried and true strategies will help you manage your bouts with anxiety, self-doubt, lack of confidence, and insecurity that imposter syndrome fosters.