Institute a Scorecard Be transparent and routinely self-assess your team. Every quarter, we analyze how we’re doing on a detailed scorecard and...

I’m more stressed about a 15 minute meeting of firing a junior level employee than making eight million dollar decisions. The processes at some...

The most important step in creating a habit is the first step. All those old sayings are really true. Well begun is half done. Don’t get it perfect, get it going...

What does it take to be a great leader? It’s a question I get asked often, along with, “What’s it really like to work with all those men?” Younger women...

It’s a tattered and overworked analogy, but it’s also necessarily true: Calgary is in for a bit of house cleaning. Maybe not a complete spring clean...

Being a leader is perhaps the hardest challenge any of us will ever face. No matter how long we work at it, practicing the right behaviors is a...

I coach brilliant women, lots of them. Dedicated, talented, brilliant women. Most of the time, they don’t know their brilliance. They are certain they...

It’s a really fine line trying to make sure that on a team you get recognized for your contributions without coming across as arrogant or breathing...

The best advice I can give you is advice that I’m coming to understand and I think no matter how long you are into your career it’s something...

Unfortunately so often we are on cruise control in our careers. We know what’s on our job description and we show up to work, we do the bare minimum...

So I think the idea if you can’t say something nice don’t say anything at all is one of those many things in that idea of what ladylike behaviour...

In many ways leadership is about fulfilling your own potential and getting others to follow along with your ideas, now you can’t fulfill your potential...

There are three really costly mistakes that women make when working in teams. The first is that because of how busy women’s lives are, particularly working women’s...

Productive conflict of probably one of the biggest “asks” that I make in You First. In the whole book I had to leave that until the last chapter because...

The science of self-assurance is the genes. We’ve gone through a lot of work with neuroscientists who are looking at the genes that predetermine whether...