Marshall Goldsmith – The World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith was recently recognized as the #1 leadership thinker in the world at the bi-annual Thinkers50 ceremony sponsored by the Harvard Business Review. Dr. Goldsmith is the million-selling author or editor of 34 books, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t Get You […]

Mind-Wandering, Intuition, Decision Making & Problem Solving

Dr. Jonathan Schooler earned his BA at Hamilton College in 1981 and his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 1987. He joined the psychology faculty of the University of Pittsburgh as an assistant professor that same year and became a research scientist at Pittsburgh’s Learning Research and Development Center. He moved on to the […]

The Pursuit of Happiness – What It’s Doing to Us

Cathy Greenberg, Ph.D., Author, Speaker, Consultant and ICF Certified Coach has been named a world wide authority on leadership and human behavior by major business and financial news organizations. Dr. Greeberg teaches the science of happiness and how it impacts our emotional and social intelligence. She is known for achieving outstanding results for others. Relly […]

Confidence Strategy – Busting the Perfection Loop and Procrastination’s Seduction

In the last blog I described the perfection loop that we can easily fall prey to without realizing this “failure set up” pattern. In this blog I will explain the loop more and how to bust it. This is another excerpt on one of the 108 strategies in my Leading with Emotional Intelligence: Strategies for […]

Women Seen and Heard: Lessons Learned from Successful Speakers

Dr. Lois Phillips is a dynamic public speaker whose clients say she “practices what she teaches.” She is the author of “Women Seen and Heard: Lessons Learned from Successful Speakers.” Using principles outlined in her book, and gained from interviews with successful speakers, she provides coaching  and training to spokespersons, managers and executives. Dr. Phillips […]

Confidence Strategy: Perfection Loop Quicksand

In continuing our focus on hands-on tools to raise your Confidence, below is another of the 108 strategies adapted from Leading with Emotional Intelligence. Success-driven people always set goals for themselves, but often these goals set them up for failure or frustration. Why? Because the goals are unrealistic to start with and constitute a pattern […]

Vocal Executive Presence: Speak Like a Leader

For more than a decade, Dr. Laura Sicola has been lecturing, researching, coaching, and publishing on pronunciation, cognition, the voice and related effects on learning. She speaks English, Spanish and Japanese and has studied Arabic and Italian. She is the founder of the Sicola Consulting Group, providing linguistic and cross-cultural training for organizations and individuals […]