The Journal
In-depth articles on promotions, executive presence, leadership transitions, and senior interviews — the same frameworks we use in AI Career Coach.
Forty pen pals, a summer job my parents didn't know about, and a father who worried my quietness would cost me. A personal account of how leadership begins long before anyone calls it that.
Read article →For years I attended leadership programmes because they were part of my development plan. Only later did I understand what they were really doing — and why experience alone was never going to be enough.
Read article →Avoiding a hard conversation always feels like patience. It is almost never patience. What I learned from delaying one for half a year.
Read article →I have interviewed hundreds of people and been interviewed for roles I badly wanted. The candidates who stayed with me were never the most polished ones.
Read article →I have started in new leadership roles in three countries. Here is what I got wrong the first time, and what I now do in the opening ninety days.
Read article →The quietest person in the room is often the one people follow. What thirty years taught me about the presence that cannot be performed.
Read article →Emotional intelligence is not a personality trait you are born with or without. It is a set of learnable competencies — and one simple practice, the helicopter, that I have taught for two decades.
Read article →Promotions are rarely won in the room where the decision is made. Reflections from thirty years of watching good people wait, and a few who did not.
Read article →At forty-four I was certain the job was mine. A phone call told me otherwise. What happened in the hours after that call taught me more about leadership than any programme I had attended.
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