A Roadmap to Authentic Leadership
Tools, resources, and insights to inspire growth
Strengthening Your Core
My son is now a teenager and as a result is allowed access to the fitness center. He recently started working with a personal trainer. As you might imagine, a 13 year old has his own unique fitness goals (in his case a couple related to hockey and several related to...
Authentic Impact – The ‘Official’ Launch!
Executive coaching, widely recognized as an effective way to build capacity by developing professional and leadership skills, has largely been reserved for select leaders, in part due to the cost. Authentic Impact wants to change that. About a year ago, we began pilot...
Overarching Values – Introverts
At the core of each of us are our values – important and enduring beliefs about what is important. Once ignited, our instinctive drives can sustain us when we need to set aside our most natural behavior, as shown in this TED video by Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The...
Look For Gaps, Not Cars
The ability to navigate obstacles is a key characteristic of successful people. Whatever life throws at them, they are somehow able to regroup, find a way, and get the job completed. Ask an employer what makes for a star employee and they will often answer, “She...
Have A But-Free Day
Positive Psychology suggests that how we deal with each other’s good news may be more important than how we deal with problems and crises. That’s right. Celebration trumps Commiseration. Your spouse comes home and announces they have received a raise. Do you say:...
Money and Your Inner Reptile
Question: “Why do we worry so much about money?” The most common response is “Because there is never enough”, usually delivered with a strange look, as though the answer should be self-evident. I used to believe that, too, but after a thirty-year career of working...
Tomorrow – The Greatest Labour Saving Device Ever Invented
The human brain is a fascinating organ, with a tremendous ability to envision a future that looks very different than the past or present. This capacity for imagination is one of things that set humans apart from our mammalian brethren. Trouble is, we are all too...
Go Outside – You’ll Be Smarter
People who spend twenty or more minutes outside in the sunshine in the spring and early summer have more expansive and open thinking, Matthew Keller, assistant professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, et al tell us in their research paper A Warm Heart and a...
The Rules, Brought To You By Bossy-Britches
This riveting clip from "The West Wing" shows a fictional response to Dr. Jacob, a thinly disguised "Dr. Laura Schlessinger", the highly prescriptive and directive talk-show host who vigorously dispenses advice to people who call in to her radio show. Oh, that we...
Tyrannical Tendencies – Strengths Overused?
Steve Jobs’ authorized biography by Walter Isaacson paints a vivid picture of a man with vision, purpose and one whose single-minded focus brought us an ingenious array of beautifully designed and intuitive products. Also apparent, to misquote Shakespeare in Othello,...
Great Expectations
We were all set to get our dining room re-painted, when I received a call from the painter, Norm. “I finished my last job early. Would it be all right if I started Monday, instead of Wednesday? I know you’re having people in on the weekend, and that way I’ll be out...
Fat or Fit – What Matters?
We are into mid January now, and the zeal of our New Year’s resolutions is starting to wear thin, even if our thighs aren’t. Take heart – the important thing is to keep moving, and moderate amounts are just fine, thank you, according to Steven Blair of the University...
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