I recently sat down with Sarah Doyle, executive leadership coach, former communications executive, and founder of Coach for Success, for a conversation that I am still thinking about days later. Sarah works with high-performing women stepping into senior leadership roles, and what she brought to our conversation was both deeply practical and genuinely refreshing. Her core message is one that I think every coach and leader needs to hear right now: you do not need to perform leadership. You need to transmit it. That distinction opened up a conversation about what is actually happening in most boardrooms, most leadership teams, and most coaching programs, and why so much of what passes for leadership training is actually teaching people to...
I want to speak directly to the coach who is feeling quietly behind. You have been coaching for months or years. You have taken the training, held space, asked the powerful questions, practiced the deep listening. You have sat with people through some of the most difficult and meaningful moments of their lives. You have developed a perspective that is specific and hard-won and genuinely yours. And yet you open social media and you see coaches with fifty thousand followers posting sixty-second videos about their morning coffee. Something in you wonders whether you are doing it wrong. Whether the depth you bring has any place in a world that seems to reward the loudest, the flashiest, and the...
What Happens When Women Stop Masking at Work: A Conversation with Kadine Cooper There is a cost that most organizations never measure. It is the cost of women showing up as a carefully curated version of themselves rather than as themselves. Hair managed, volume turned down, assertiveness softened. The parts that are too much tucked quietly away. Kadine Cooper has spent nearly 20 years understanding that cost from the inside, first as an HR leader and talent development consultant, and now as an executive coach helping women in corporate leadership stop paying it. In this conversation, she walks me through her ALIGN method, shares the values framework at the heart of her work, and reflects honestly on the...
The Coaching Industry Is Not Saturated. Your Feed Is. Something I hear regularly from coaches is this: the coaching industry feels saturated. And I genuinely understand why it feels that way. If you are a coach, your social media is full of coaches. Your Google searches surface coaching content. Your YouTube recommendations are coaching videos. It looks like coaches are everywhere. But what you are seeing is not the world. It is a filtered version of the world built around your own interests. Understanding that difference changes everything about how you see your place in this industry. You Are Living in an Algorithm Bubble Every platform you use is designed to show you more of what you have already demonstrated...
My client, Dr. Lindsey Grabek works as an anesthesiologist. Which means she spends her days with people in some of the most vulnerable moments of their lives, aware in a way most of us are not of how temporary and precious those lives are. She also spends her time building a coaching practice focused on emotional intelligence for female physicians, doing it alongside one of the most demanding clinical careers imaginable. The conversation I had with her stayed with me for a long time. Not primarily because of what she has built, though what she has built is genuinely impressive. But because of the honesty she brought to talking about what it cost her to get there, and what...
