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Sometimes coaching is coaching. And sometimes it is conformity wearing a development plan.

Here is a pattern I watched play out for 33 years in corporate America.

An organization hires a new leader precisely because she is different. 

Fresh eyes.
Strong women don’t automatically raise daughters who can stand up for themselves. That truth is harder to admit than most people realize.

We like to believe that strength transfers automatically.

That if a mother is strong, her daughter will
The first time I had cancer, I didn't tell many people. I had major surgery and went back to work in a week.

Even that, I turned into a performance.

Nothing to see here.
Still poised.
Still on schedule.

I had spent decades becoming the executive w
A man told me his teammate gave him one instruction about this conference: if she's the opening keynote, you go that day.

He wasn't the only one.

This week I opened the PHRA Annual Conference in Pittsburgh with my keynote, Dare to Decide: How Coura

It’s Choice, not Chance that Changes Everything.

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