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Who is your role-model? Re-discover your roots.
When I was younger, I resisted the idea of having a role model. When I was asked to share my role model, I would always say: Mahatma Gandhi. This was my automatic answer, partly due to my eagerness to avoid follow-up questions and partly linked to my genuine alignment...
Mothers as Leaders has a new voice
📚✨'Not everybody is a mother, but everyone has a mother or at least had a mother. Just in time for Mother's Day in the US, the team Mothers as leaders has a new release. The "Mothers as Leaders" is now available on Audible! 🎉🎧 . It is being narrated by the...
Parenthood – the best MBA in leadership
(This article is an adapted translation of Steliana's October 2023 TEDx Constanta talk. It was originally created in Romanian, her mother-tongue.) School prepares us for life, internships prepare us for a trade, but nothing prepares us for the role of a parent....
When parenting becomes leadership
As parents, we have the unique opportunity to indirectly shape the future generation. How? Not only by taking an important role in society, but by performing the not-so-ordinary role of parenthood as a leadership job. Beyond wishing them happiness, financial success,...
New Year Resolutions
For many years I tried to resist New Year’s Resolutions – after all, we know most resolutions don’t work after the first 2 weeks, or maybe after the first month. But ever since I moved to the US, I am starting to embrace the goal setting culture. For several years in...
Don’t ask what your team can do for you. You are the team
Today was a great day for the Houstonians. The Houston Astros baseball team won over the Texas Rangers with 5-4. In the league championship, Houston leads 3-2. I personally discovered the magic of baseball, back in 2021 after relocating to Texas. It's fascinating how...
Fear is what keeps us stuck. Fortune favors the bold
Fear often holds us back in various aspects of life, from our professions and all the way to our family, romantic and friendship relationships. Yet, as the saying goes, "fortune favors the bold." I've always had a fear of heights, and it took me years to accept and...
Beyond servant leadership: Blossom, embrace leadership
True leaders, like mothers, must give more than they receive. If I think about my own family when I was growing up, my mother always ate last and I don’t really remember her ever sitting for long at the table. Compare this with the world of business, filled as it is...
The Powerful Connection Between Sleep and Leadership
As a working parent, you may feel like you have to always choose between spending time for your work or spending time for your family. That might lead to an inner chatter that might tell you that you have to choose between being a good leader at work and being a good...
What can leadership teams learn from real-families?
There is no real-family without some healthy argument taking place at some point. I grew-up in a family where being vocal was considered a virtue. Few days ago I had to review all the team coaching engagements I completed in the last fiveyears. I had to describe them...
End-Year habits – winding down with purpose
There are only 10 days left in the year! As scary as it might seem it is time to close down your to-do-list and to start thinking about the year that past and the one ahead. Christmas shopping is waiting.You might even consider home-friendly activities, like cooking...
Executive Presence…also for Women
As we are approaching the last quarter, the minds of corporate managers and executives start leaning in, with a mix of anticipation and dread, towards the end-of-year feedback. 'What should be my next year's development focus?' some wonder. Developing 'Executive...
It’s ok to feel alone, even when you are not alone
When someone tells you, 'I feel alone' , your heart breaks and every human bone in you wants to save him. Still, is that the right thing to do? Loneliness is one of the strongest emotions. It can be the cause of dangerous self-harm decisions or even depression but,...
The busy ‘hybrid’ life! What can you cut-back on?
Time management is the number one issue quoted in most of my coaching sessions. Moms are famous for 'to do lists' instead of 'cut-back' lists. The best lessons in prioritization I took during our move from Europe exactly a year ago - we had 30 days to use that...
Why do women trust men less and viceversa
There is a worldwide gap of trust at the moment and it is making me sad. It is not only the divide between Russia and the rest of the world, it’s not only the divide between the BlackLivesMatter and the whitesupremacy in the US , it’s not only the...