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What is Leadership Coaching?

Ignite Your Fire Inside with Leadership Coaching Athletes who want to unleash their potential know they need a coach. Leaders are no different. Imagine having someone in your corner who appreciates and understands you, knows what it takes to get results and is entirely committed to your success, on your terms. Someone with the skill…

What the Leadership Circle Profile™ Is + How it Can Fuel Your Growth

Get to the heart of your potential fast and get on the path to greater impact and effectiveness by adding the Leadership Circle Profile™ to Fire Inside’s Leadership Coaching process. This innovative 360 leadership assessment will give you and your coach powerful insight into your leadership impact and the underlying drivers that create it. The…

Too overwhelmed for self care? Make it easier with these two skills.

If you ask, most leaders know what they need to do to improve their well-being. They’ll tell you they need more sleep or to reduce their stress or eat healthier or get more exercise. But many struggle to do those things consistently. In this fourth article in my series on The Leadership Long Game, I…

Mental Habits of Long Game Leaders

“The quality of your mind determines the quality of your life.” Author, neuroscientist, meditation teacher Sam Harris. If we’ve learned one thing through this last year, it is that leadership and life require what sports psychologists call, a strong mental game. But what does that mean, really? Is it something you are born with or…

First Aid for the Leadership Long Game: Seven small changes that can make a big difference

Last week, I received a link from a client to a Globe and Mail article entitled Working from home is causing breakdowns. It echoed a conversation we had just had about a general sense of creeping malaise he had been experiencing. As I read it, I thought, “This is how a lot of people are feeling…

How to build your Leadership Long Game

As I write this, most of the world has entered a second and more ferocious wave of COVID-19. What makes wave two even more challenging is that at the very moment we are all weary and discouraged after long months of social restrictions, school disruptions and isolation, we are being called to brace for more.…

Are You Ready for the New Normal

Are You Ready for the New Normal? What have you learned from this experience of a global pandemic so far? What has it revealed to you about what is and isn’t working in your life, your organization, and your community? What needs to change and what is the resulting new normal you want to see?…

How Darkness Can Sometimes Light the Way

“The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.” Brene Brown. I have found these last few months profoundly disorienting and I know from talking to clients, colleagues and friends that I am not alone. COVID-19 has been shockingly revelatory. It…

The Uncomfortable Truth about Transformation

This pandemic is challenging us on multiple fronts. It challenges our need to know what is happening and what is going to happen; it challenges our desire to be, and feel, in control; it challenges our sense of safety and security; and it challenges our confidence in what to do next. Most profoundly, it is challenging who we are, and who we see ourselves to be.

Fierce Leadership, A Sign of Hope in Complex Times

I have been struck of late – in awe really – of extraordinary leadership shown by an uncommon breed of leaders I have the privilege of witnessing in my personal life and as a professional coach. Their brand of fierce leadership has inspired me to write about them as a way of understanding and sharing…