Nov 25, 2025 | Leadership and Management |
Why Your “Competing Commitments” Are Stalling Your Team There is a pattern I observe in founders led companies that is quietly stifling their organizations. It is not a lack of skill, and it is not a lack of vision. It is a conflict of identity. The...
Nov 21, 2025 | Leadership and Management |
There’s a pattern I see in certain companies that’s puzzling at first glance. The CEO is a very nice and kind person. Genuinely kind. The kind of person people respect deeply and stay loyal to for decades. They’ve built a team of exceptional people...
Nov 12, 2025 | Communication Skills, Leadership and Management |
Let’s get real for a second (especially if you have a large team) Every year, organizations spend more than $60 billion on strategic planning and leadership development. Yet McKinsey, Bain, and Harvard Business Review converge on a sobering truth: roughly 70–90% of...
Oct 20, 2025 | Leadership and Management |
Let’s talk about that thing that’s been bugging you. That goal that feels perpetually out of reach. We’ve all been there, feeling stuck and spinning our wheels. It’s like having a tiny, sharp stone in your shoe. At first, it’s just a little annoying. You can limp...
Oct 10, 2025 | Leadership and Management |
You know what’s funny? When I quit my 16 years tech career to start on a totally new journey – to guide and work with the biggest changemakers & leaders on this planet, I thought the hard part was getting there. Landing the big CEO clients. Hitting the...
Oct 1, 2025 | Leadership and Management |
There’s a meeting happening right now, in every country, where a leader is saying something they don’t mean, making a promise they won’t keep, or avoiding a conversation that actually matters. And everyone in the room knows it. Including the leader....
Jul 31, 2025 | Leadership and Management |
The Leadership Trinity: The 3 Essential States of Being for any Leader Picture this: You’re sitting in your office at 10 pm, staring at a mountain of unfinished tasks while your phone buzzes with urgent messages from three different time zones. Your head of...
Jul 18, 2025 | Leadership and Management |
The Leadership Trap: Why Serving Beats Pleasing Every Time How breaking free from this childhood programming of pleasing others can transform your leadership and life Picture this: You’re in a meeting, and something isn’t right. The project is headed...
Jun 19, 2025 | Leadership and Management |
I had two client conversations today that I will not forget for a while. Two clients. Both wildly successful. One’s a former pro athlete who’s dominated their sport for years and is now contributing to their sport in an even bigger way after retirement....
Jun 7, 2025 | Leadership and Management |
Authenticity is aligning who you are with what you think, what you say and what you do Let me tell you about Shweta, a VP at a tech company who was known for her “transparency.” She’d stand in front of her team every Monday morning, preaching about...
May 26, 2025 | Leadership and Management |
How childhood rewards for reliability can create an invisible cage around your boldest ambitions? Let me paint a picture that might feel uncomfortably familiar. You’re sitting in your office, staring at a proposal that could transform your industry. Your team is...
May 21, 2025 | Leadership and Management |
I still remember the moment that changed everything. It was my first year of college when I discovered what my parents had been hiding from me. My mother had cancer—a battle she’d been quietly fighting while they took loans to send me to engineering school. As...
May 14, 2025 | Leadership and Management |
There exists a profound distinction in both business and personal life that shapes nearly every interaction, negotiation, and relationship we engage in. It’s not merely a strategy or technique but a fundamental state of being—either Being the Buyer or Being the...
Apr 28, 2025 | Leadership and Management |
Leaders frequently pride themselves on data-driven decisions and logical planning. Yet, there’s an often-overlooked leadership muscle that remains dramatically undertrained—the ability to purely and powerfully want something, free from justification, reasoning, or...
Apr 16, 2025 | Coaching, Leadership and Management |
There’s something I need every founder, every entrepreneur, every CEO out there to hear—clearly, directly, and without any fluff: I will never give up on you. Even when you want to give up on yourself. Even when you’re too tired to care. Even when you feel like a...
Apr 11, 2025 | Leadership and Management |
Have you ever noticed how some leaders seem to create results out of thin air while others struggle to move the needle despite working twice as hard? The difference often isn’t found in their strategies, intelligence, or even work ethic. It’s hidden in...
Apr 7, 2025 | Leadership and Management |
Being Assertive to Your Team vs. Being Assertive for Your Team In the high-stakes world of executive leadership, how CEOs interact with their leadership teams can make or break an organization’s success. Many CEOs struggle with finding the right balance of...
Mar 15, 2025 | Leadership and Management |
I was born and raised in India, an introverted child who thought deeply about the world. Like many others, I followed the “safe” path. I became an engineer. I built a successful 16-year career in tech. I relied on structure, planning, and logic. But...
Mar 15, 2025 | Leadership and Management |
I’ve spent most of my life trying to get it right. Get what right? Everything. My relationships. My career. My parenting. My software. My presentation. My trip. My very existence. For the longest time, I thought that was the point—to master the game called life...
Oct 16, 2024 | Leadership and Management |
Do you feel stuck? Like no matter what you do, you’re just spinning your wheels? That lack of momentum is costing you more than you think. It’s not just about missing goals or seeing slow growth—it’s killing your potential, draining your energy, and keeping you...
