Leadership Is Worth Talking About Honestly
I am interested in leadership as it actually happens—not only as it appears in management books.
That means talking about difficult employees, limited resources, organizational politics, accountability, failed systems, saying no, making unpopular decisions and recognizing when our own leadership habits are contributing to the problem.
My writing and speaking draw on more than 25 years of leadership experience and the lessons that come from leading through organizational change.
No Is a Leadership Love Language
A Leadership Book in Development
One of the most important lessons I have learned as a leader is that helping people and rescuing people are not the same thing.
Leaders often say yes because it feels supportive.
We take the task back.
We solve the employee’s problem.
We approve another exception.
We avoid the difficult conversation.
And sometimes, in trying to be supportive, we prevent people from developing the very capability we say we want them to have.
No Is a Leadership Love Language explores the idea that boundaries, standards and accountability can be acts of leadership rather than failures of empathy.
The book draws from real leadership experiences and my own evolution as a leader—including the mistakes.
Speaking Topics
No Is a Leadership Love Language
Why saying no can build stronger employees, healthier boundaries and more accountable organizations.
Leading Through Organizational Change
What leaders need to do when systems, structures and expectations all need to change at the same time.
Stop Rescuing. Start Leading.
How well-intentioned leaders create dependency—and how to replace rescuing with capacity building.
Accountability Is Not the Opposite of Compassion
Why high standards and supportive leadership can, and should, coexist.
Leading in Canada’s North
Lessons in adaptability, relationships, resourcefulness and organizational leadership developed in one of Canada’s most complex operating environments.
From Strategic Plan to Organizational Action
Turning Board priorities and executive commitments into ownership, milestones and measurable results.
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