12 May STEP THREE: INTENTION
Do you want to improve your relationship with your colleagues and feel more integrated into your team? Or perhaps your relationship with your boss is what also matters? Take a look...
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Welcome to my leadership coaching blog on people-pleasing patterns in corporate life. Here I write about what actually gets in the way of Directors advancing to VP and what to do about it. Each post draws on real patterns I see in my coaching work with senior leaders across tech, finance, and consulting. These are not generic leadership tips. They are observations from over 3,000 hours of executive coaching conversations, the kind of honest, specific insights that rarely make it into leadership books but come up in almost every coaching session. If you have ever said yes when you meant no, softened feedback to keep the peace, or wondered why doing everything right still does not feel like enough, you are in the right place.
The patterns I write about here: over-explaining, avoiding conflict, shrinking in rooms where you should be leading are not personal failings. They are learned survival strategies that worked at one stage of your career and now quietly hold you back at the next. Understanding them is the first step to changing them. For more personal reflections on people-pleasing, boundaries, and leadership identity, I also write on Substack and Medium.
Browse the articles below and take what is useful. If any of this resonates more deeply and if you recognise yourself in what you read and are ready to do something about it, you are welcome to explore my coaching approach or book a free pattern mapping call.
12 May STEP TWO: CURIOSITY
Looking at how to transition into your new role or to find a job? Take a look at the 3 STEP FRAMEWORK of CURIOSITY: ⭐Research ⭐Direct ⭐Apply and achieve your...
12 May STEP ONE: AWARENESS
One of the most prevailing goals that I hear is to become a better leader: ⭐To be able to inspire better; ⭐To facilitate creative value add approaches to the existing...
12 May Launch: Grow & Achieve Series
In the time of heightened uncertainty, what are your goals? ⭐To motivate your employees even when you lack clarity yourself? ⭐To increase your efficiency whilst working remotely? ⭐To reduce and...
16 Mar Growth is your path to quality of life
Coach and You Point of View: Growth Growth and Pain: So much talk about personal development and growth. Perhaps to make sense of the pain that I experience sometimes. When I...
09 Mar Resilience is the immunity of the mind
Coach and You Point of View: Resilience Resilience and Immunity: I am resilient! I have a power to rebound from a difficult experience. Interestingly the same difficult experience from which I...