Services
How I Work With Leaders and Teams
My Approach to Leadership Development
Leadership isn’t demonstrated in what you understand. It’s demonstrated in what you do in the moments that matter.
My approach makes the bridge between theory and action clear, so people at every level, with or without a title, know what to do when leadership is called for. It also addresses what comes first: seeing yourself as the one to act. Knowing what to do is no use if you don’t believe the moment is yours.
My work is rooted in systems thinking: 14 years leading company-wide technology projects, most often with people who didn’t report to me, so leading without a title was never a theory for me. Then more than 20 years focused on the human system, guiding organizations around the world in transforming how they lead and work, so they could build great places to work that produce exceptional results.
Across industries and cultures, the same few things made the difference again and again. The Leadership in Action System™ is what I developed to teach and coach leaders and leadership teams to meet the moments that matter: elevating the action they take as a leader, leading strategically, and building accountable relationships in their everyday work.
Leading in Action
Speak Up. Step Up. Stand Up.
Learn to recognize the everyday moments that call for leadership, and how to take new and different action in them to elevate your leadership and amplify your impact. Confidence and competence grow together, and so does the performance of the people you lead.
Strategy in Action
Get Clear. Stay Focused. Work Smart.
Turn ideas and aspirations into a 1-Page Strategy in Action™ Plan. Define success by outcomes, not activities, so every day’s decisions serve what matters most. And discover how to leverage Strategy in Action Plans to align and lead teams.
Accountability in Action
Make Promises. Honor Commitments. Build Trust.
Learn and develop the one skill you must master to build trust, strengthen relationships and produce extraordinary results. Hold people to account in a way that makes relationships stronger, whether they report to you or not.
Workshops and Online Training
Every program can be delivered three ways: online and on demand for an individual or a whole team, as an onsite workshop, or live on Zoom. Pair it with coaching to turn what people learn into results, or let me design a program around the outcomes you need.
Everyday Strategic Leadership
Clarity drives progress. Confusion is costly. Learn a simple framework for strategic decisions: clarify your why, define what success looks like, then choose where to focus. Work on something real as you go, and leave with a 1-Page Strategy in Action™ Plan you can put to work right away.
Building High Performing Relationships
Smart, talented people don’t automatically add up to a high performing team. The difference is in the relationships between them. Learn a simple framework for the conversations that create accountability, so people keep their commitments, rely on each other, and deliver results no one could produce alone.
Leading Made Simple Workshop
What if committing an act of leadership could be as simple as committing an act of kindness? Learn the three fundamental acts of leadership anyone can take every day, speaking up, stepping up and standing up, and walk away with at least three specific acts of leadership you can take right away.
Dream Team Blueprint
Transform the team you have into the leadership team you dream of. Working on your real work together, you’ll learn to make strategic decisions as a team, hold each other accountable and break down silos, until you can truly count on each other.
Fire Up Your Leadership™
A 12-week leadership activation experience for women leaders.
Fire Up Your Leadership is designed to elevate your leadership, expand your influence and increase your impact in the everyday moments that matter most. It’s based on the Leadership in Action System™.
You’ll find your growth edges, the moments in your real work where new and different action would take you to your next level. Then you’ll get the support you need to take that action when it counts, until acting at your edge becomes how you lead.
Speaking & Events
I’m not in the motivation business. I’m in the activation business. Every talk leaves your audience with specific actions they can take the next day.
Leading Made Simple™: 3 Ways Anyone Can Lead Every Day
What if you don’t have to be THE leader to be a leader? Leadership is not a title. It is what you do in the moments that matter. Audiences discover the three fundamental acts of leadership, speaking up, stepping up and standing up, and leave seeing opportunities to lead everywhere they look, starting the next morning.
How Strategy Powers Your Leadership
Most of us work hard on HOW long before we are clear on WHY and WHAT. You know the cost: hard work on the wrong things, and time and energy wasted on friction instead of progress because a team is not aligned. Audiences discover the three questions you must answer to be strategic rather than opportunistic, and the one thing to do before you take action if you want to work smart. Start with why and what, and alignment and leverage become possible.
The Secret to Getting What You Want
Know what you want. Own what you want. Choose what you want. Most of us never get past the first step. Drawing on my own story of building a life by design, and finding a new way forward from a breaking point, I take audiences through all three steps. Everyone walks away clear on the one thing that matters most, their North Star, and how to move toward it every day, not someday.
Also available: breakout sessions · panel facilitation · workshop formats of any keynote
Strategy & Facilitation
Get real work done in your meetings.
In a 2024 Atlassian survey of 5,000 knowledge workers, 78% said they attend so many meetings it’s hard to get their work done, and 54% often leave without a clear idea of next steps or who owns what. I’d suggest that’s because the typical meeting is designed around topics, which produces discussion about the work. We design your meetings with you, built for specific outcomes, so you make meaningful progress by doing actual work.
It starts with one question: what must we accomplish by the end for this to have been worth everyone’s time? Those outcomes become the test for what belongs on the agenda and what does not.
Staying focused on outcomes, and adapting the agenda in real time as the conversation unfolds, takes real facilitation skill, especially when everyone at the table has a stake in the outcome. My job is to hold that focus, so your whole team can put its attention on the work and everyone walks away saying the meeting was well worth the investment.
Progress Facilitation
- An agenda built from outcomes, not from topics
- Conversations your team can keep running after I leave
- Alignment on what success means, before anyone argues about how
- Coaching folded into the work as it happens
Sessions I facilitate: strategy sessions · planning and priority setting · project kickoffs · leadership team meetings · the conversation nobody has been willing to have.
Executive Coaching
One to one, for leaders ready to elevate their leadership and amplify their impact.
Leaders often come to coaching at a turning point: stepping into a bigger role, leading a team through change, facing a decision that matters, or simply knowing they are capable of more and ready to go after it.
Every session is invested in what you are actually facing, moving your work and your leadership forward. Between sessions, you have access to the Leadership in Action System™ training modules. You won’t work through a course. I direct you to the training that develops the skills you need, when you need them, based on your goals.
What you can expect:
- A clear definition of your next level of leadership, in practical terms you can act on
- A thinking partner for the decisions and conversations that matter most
- On-demand, targeted training to support your growth
- New and different action in your everyday work, where your growth actually shows up
- Honest feedback, delivered with care
