My Blog
Not every team needs more advice. But the best teams always need more clarity. These articles are built for the leaders asking better questions—about alignment, about trust, about what actually moves people. Practical insights. No fluff. Just tools that help you lead with purpose.
Fractional Leadership vs. Consulting: What’s the Difference?
Consulting gives advice, fractional leadership drives execution. Learn the key differences to decide which is right for your business at critical growth or transition points.
Why High-Performing Leaders Still Need Coaching – and What It Unlocks
Executive coaching isn’t just for struggling leaders. High performers use it to gain clarity, accountability, and unlock growth that drives impact across entire organizations.
Don’t Just Coach—Cultivate: The Real Work of Executive Leadership
Coaching is a spark—but real leadership is cultivation. Discover how executive leaders near Denver can build lasting impact by tending to culture, clarity, and team dynamics.
Three Conversations Your Executive Team Needs—But Probably Isn’t Having
Is your leadership team avoiding the talks that really matter? Discover the 3 essential conversations that drive clarity, alignment, and performance—straight from an executive coach in Colorado Springs.
The Real ROI of Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
Unlocking the Real ROI of Emotional Intelligence in Executive Leadership
How to Build Executive Alignment Without Turning Into a Hall Monitor
Practical, human ways to get your team rowing in sync—without playing traffic cop.
Your People Don’t Need a Pep Talk—They Need a North Star
Lead with clarity, not charisma. Here’s how to draw the map they’ll actually follow.
Use Affirmations in Your Exec Suite to Boost Capacity for Success
Yes your team is full of accomplished C-suite leaders. Do it anyway.
Is Executive Coaching For Me?
If your answers to these four questions below are yes, then there is a pretty good chance.
Cheat Sheet To Making Your Business's Big Decisions
When the world is surging and contorting, decisiveness is what your business desperately needs. Thankfully, it can be practiced. One’s approach to it can established and refined. Choose with confidence with these six short steps.
Mentor, Jump In and Rescue, or Coach?
Here in contemporary times, when businesses face immediate and crushing challenges, the answer is (almost) always to coach. And that’s because, by and large, people don’t really like advice, and they struggle to follow it. And no one likes being bossed around.
I Talked My Boss Into Meditating; It Didn't Work
Meditation is terrific. It’s spectacular. But as with most good ideas, it can’t be hoisted upon someone. A human has got to get there on their own.
Pure Decisiveness Is Overrated
For your business to maintain an edge, you simply must be decisive. Set yourself to be adequately informed enough to decide quickly. And then get on with it.
Lived Values Are This CEO's Key To People-First Leadership
Dan Maguire set out on an experiment in corporate values. He vowed to not merely have them but actually implement them in such a way that they both philosophically and functionally drive the business. He saw it as an avenue to put people first in very concrete ways. What he learned is rather extraordinary.
Crappy Relationship With a Leadership Colleague? Manage the Conflict Like This
When in a state of unresolved conflict that’s gone personal with a coworker in the leadership ranks, try these five techniques.
You've Got Executive Coaching All Wrong
From the idea that it’s about advice to its pigeonholing as professional development, I dismantle common misconceptions and myths about executive coaching.
Leaders With Integrity Practice These Habits
In my observation through decades as a student of business and organizational leadership, integrity is the characteristic that makes good leaders great. Here are the six habits they practice.