Let Go and Lead!
I spent this past Memorial Day weekend in Boston visiting colleges with my son, who’s a junior in high school. As he’s getting ready for college and my older son is graduating from college next year,...
View ArticleWhen You Shouldn’t Take the Scenic Route
If you’ve read my book Traveling Hopefully, which helps you let go of baggage of the past so you can reinvent your future, you know that I took a pretty circuitous route to get where I am today. I...
View ArticleDoes Your Leadership Legacy Have a Long Tail?
I know it’s hard to think about such lofty concepts as legacy these days. So many business fires need immediate putting out or preventing. Add to that the unhappy job of disciplining or laying off...
View ArticleRisk. Reinvent. Repeat.
Summer is over. School and work are back in session. Maybe you’ve been slowing down or even gotten completely stuck. Don’t beat up on yourself, it’s all part of the human condition. The first step is...
View ArticleWhat Really Motivates Your Customer
Understanding what’s important to your customers – whether they are internal or external – and setting expectations accordingly is critical to creating a successful brand. I’ll give you an example of...
View ArticleSix Tips To Get More Satisfaction from Your Job
Despite difficult economic times, multiple projects and killer deadlines, it’s still possible to find greater satisfaction on the job. It’s all in the attitude. Here are some things you can do to...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Emotional Assignment?
January is a great time to think about the changes you want to make – not just in your life – but in the world. The first step is to get very clear on the value you provide. Once you’re committed to...
View ArticleLeadership Lessons from the Garden
This past long weekend seemed like a great time to stop and smell the roses. Or, at least, to plant some new flowers in my garden. These are pink dahlias, some of my favorites. As I pruned and potted,...
View ArticleStart the New Year with a Support Squad!
With the holidays already here, it’s a good time to BE thinking 2014. And not just about what your goals are for 2014, but who is going to help you achieve them. Back when I was an entertainment...
View ArticleThe Power of Changing Your Perspective
Don’t get locked into your own limited point of view. See the world through someone else’s lens. I find travel to be one of the greatest opportunities to change your perspective about, well, anything....
View ArticleHow’s Your Online Executive Presence?
A friend told me about a client meeting he attended recently on Zoom where one of the team members was so passive that people practically forgot she was on the call. And she was one of the company’s...
View ArticleAre You Twenty Feet from the C-Suite?
If you like movies about the music industry, you might have caught the 2014 Academy Award and Grammy winner Twenty Feet from Stardom. The film profiled a group of incredibly talented singers including...
View ArticleWhat I Learned As A Cat Food Brand Hand Model
After my early jobs as a talking Christmas tree at a local mall, a tap dancing bear at Knott’s Berry Farm amusement park and…yep…the hand model for a Fancy Feast cat food ad, I realized that that...
View Article5 Ways to Zap Zoom Fatigue
As we come back from the Labor Day weekend, it’s a great time to think about hanging onto that recharged, refreshed feeling. We’ve all spent so much time on video platforms, which, by now, you’ve...
View ArticleWhy Am I Always Underestimated at Work
Back pre-Covid, I was speaking at a tech company and, after my leadership talk, a young woman approached me with that question. Why am I always underestimated? She went on to tell me she’d graduated...
View ArticleIs Your Business Lean, Luxe, or Both? with Crista Grasso
In this episode, Libby discusses going lean with Crista Grasso. Crista is on a mission to help entrepreneurs simplify success, get off the hustle hamster wheel, and run lean businesses where they...
View ArticleTips from the Relationship Practitioner with Juli Geske-Peer
This week, Libby is joined by Juli Geske-Peer. Juli is the founder and president of Peer Performance Solutions, a company focused on enhancing individual and organizational performance. Her particular...
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