by Stephanie | Leadership Letters
“I just want to make sure I make the right choice. I don’t want to waste my time going down a path that isn’t the right one.” I hear (or say) a version of this at least once a week with clients, friends and colleagues. The reality of our lives in...
by Stephanie | Everyday Leadership for Smart Women podcast
“This leadership gig can be really lonely work sometimes. Not everyone gets what I’m up against and I can’t talk about it with just anyone.” These are words (or versions of them), I hear regularly from clients and colleagues. It...
by Stephanie | Everyday Leadership for Smart Women podcast
Who gets to be a leader? Short answer: you do. More nuanced answer: you do, and here’s why you might not automatically see yourself that way. We don’t have to look far to see that we’re facing a crisis of leadership. The pandemic has...
by Stephanie | Everyday Leadership for Smart Women podcast
If I’m honest, a big reason I got (and have stayed) off Instagram since June 2020 is because I’m easily influenced by other’s ambitions. As I would scroll my feed, passively watching post after post go by of someone’s perfectly curated version of success, I’d...
by Stephanie | Everyday Leadership for Smart Women podcast
Leadership is a practice, not a position. This is our guiding principle inside LEAD.Well, my community of practice for women looking to become better, braver everyday leaders. What began as essentially a paid newsletter has now become a thoughtful, curious...
by Stephanie | Everyday Leadership for Smart Women podcast
“It’s not about my ambition for my team members; it’s about me supporting them with theirs.” Nekolina is the manager any employee would love to have. As the Director of Communications for ATB Financial, Nekolina leads a team of 10....
by Stephanie | Leadership Letters
We keep going. In the midst of it all, in spite of it all…we keep going. We pause, we rest, we break, we regroup, we pick up the pieces of distraction-laid work and we begin again. We carry all the things at once – the invasion of Ukraine,...
by Stephanie | Leadership Letters
For most women, anger isn’t an emotion we’re particularly comfortable with. Many of us were raised to believe that women should be kind, quiet and acquiesce to the needs of others. And when we did show anger or frustration, we were often told to calm down,...
by Stephanie | Everyday Leadership for Smart Women podcast
In our fast-paced, 24/7 world of hot takes and endless opportunities, what might be available for us if we slowed everything down and took a moment instead? When we think about leaders, we often think about ambitious, always-on-the go busy professionals moving...
by Stephanie | Leadership Letters
When the clock struck midnight on January 1st, 2006, a dear friend and I sat on my living room floor contemplating everything. We had just returned from a nice, though somewhat depressing, dinner out and had made plans to spend the rest of the evening figuring...