It’s been quite a long time since you received a newsletter blog from me. I stopped doing my leadership blogs several years ago when I adopted my daughter. Lots of things slowed down or stopped so I could take on the most rewarding and challenging role of my life – PARENTING! And full-time single parenting at that.

If you have children during this pandemic, I am sure you can relate. It’s nutso!

While learning about how to parent and take care of my own parents who both passed away in the last 5 years, I stayed connected to my purpose of empowering leaders doing executive coaching and consulting. I worked with amazing leaders in large corporations, non-profits and small businesses and my sweet spot that I love the most – helping aspiring entrepreneurs birth their purpose-driven missions into the world!

I wanted to announce that I have coaching program openings for 2021, and share a nugget of truth about successful leaders I have seen over and over in the last 16 years of running my coaching business.
One of the bedrocks of a new paradigm of leadership in the world we live in now is this:

Leadership is Personal.

Lots of leaders I’ve coached in the past wanted to separate their personal life from their work life. Like they can put a divider line between these two things.

The reality is that WHO YOU ARE personally as a human being has everything to do with WHO YOU ARE as a leader.

You cannot be a totally different person at work then you are at home. Your core beliefs, values and issues go with you into your workplace, even if you try to separate them.

You cannot divorce the human being from the leader.

Now more than ever with Covid-19, our personal lives are being blended with our work lives. We are living and working in the same place, the boundaries have collapsed.

The most successful leaders who do the personal thing well are:

• authentic in who they are and know their personal purpose
• bring their whole self to work & take care of their mind, body & spirit
• do their personal work on their weaknesses and triggers
• connect personally with others in a genuine way
• exhibit their personal values outwardly and intentionally

Do you want to grow in your personal leadership?