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🌟 Ready to Reinvent Yourself? Pivot Your Career with Positive Intelligence
✨Are you a high-achieving mother who dreams of a career change that brings more flexibility but feels stuck by the uncertainty? Are you a father with a thriving career but find yourself struggling to balance professional success with being present for your family?...
How to emerge from a conflict you created
Conflict is an inevitable part of both personal and professional life. As someone who thrives on harmony and peace, managing conflict can feel like a daunting task. Yet, as both a leader and a parent, resolving conflicts is a responsibility that cannot be ignored,...
Happy Mother’s Day, every day!
Happy Mother’s Day, every day! Mother's Day may come once a year, but being a mom is a 24/7, 365 days leadership role. This day is a wonderful reminder to express our gratitude, but the truth is, every day is an opportunity to cherish the...
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...