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As I sit on my balcony in Colorado, looking out over wide open space, my mind won’t shut up. Not in an anxious way. In a sifting way. I’m sifting through conversations I’ve had lately with CEOs, founders, CMOs, COOs. Some of the brightest, sharpest people I know. People who built billion-dollar things from nothing. […]

You can’t out-recruit your reputation. And you definitely can’t out-spin your leadership. In every executive search, two interviews are happening. One you see. One you don’t. There’s the formal one – the panel, the presentation, the polished Q&A. And then there’s the other one. The invisible one. It happens in the back half of a […]

In those first few weeks, you finally remembered how to breathe. There’s no calendar stacked with back-to-back meetings. No relentless ping of emails. No agenda beyond your own soul’s. You sleep deeper. Walk slower. Float in your pool and wonder if this is what peace actually feels like. And for a time, maybe days, maybe […]

I sat across from a friend and mentor recently. One of those people who seems to know where the world is heading before the rest of us catch up. We were in one of those quietly perfect spots – a humble, home-cooking kind of place where the napkins were paper and the butter came in […]

A client of mine – brilliant, the kind who lights up a room with ideas – got the call last week. Three months, six gruelling interviews, and a recruiter hyping him up with “They’re obsessed with you!” every other day. He was all in, heart on the table. Then the email: “We’ve gone another direction.” […]

A new kind of presence for a new kind of leader. For years, I treated conferences like a sprint. Show up, shake hands, sound smart, stay visible, stay grateful, stay late. I’d come home hoarse, strung out, and a little ashamed of how desperate it all felt. The truth is: I was trying to be […]