A Case for Psychological Safety
Back in 2009, one of the SaaS solutions that my company used declared bankruptcy and gave us 90 days to get off their platform. It meant setting up an internal platform and moving about 1,000 drop ship vendor connections…a close to impossible task. We got our heads together and came up with an accelerated plan […]
How Athletes stay Calm under Pressure
For Swiss Olympic golfer Fabienne In-Albon, competing in the Olympic Games had been a life-long dream — one she’d been training for since she was just 10 years old. Here’s the way she describes her big moment: “At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio when I walked to the first tee on the first day of competition, I […]
Resilience for Moments that Matter
When the going gets tough, we’re told the tough get going — do more, do better, and tough it out. We believe that the more time, energy, and focus we put in, the more we’ll get out of it on the other side. But as leaders like Arianna Huffington, CEO of Thrive Global, shares, this belief in […]
Four ways to create an agile and a stress resilient mind
Change is no longer a constant. It’s in a mode of acceleration. And to be able to keep up with this change, the mind matters. Research shows that it takes us about 25 minutes of focused work to reach our peak mental performance, but on average, a person distracts themselves every three minutes. This constant stop start affects both our […]
How to Effortlessly have more Positive Thoughts
Our mind is fascinating. It has its own rhythm, its own patterns and tendencies, it is self-conscious, and yet we are not aware of many things spontaneously happening. Waves of thoughts arise and subside in our mind and we have no control over them. Tendencies of the mind In 2005, the National Science Foundation published an article […]
How Meditation benefits CEOs
Mindfulness is quickly following yoga in becoming a billion-dollar industry. It’s no surprise, then, that the popularity of meditation – one way to practice mindfulness – is also growing among CEOs and senior executives. Why are business leaders embracing meditation rather than, say, massage or ping-pong? Because there’s something to meditation that appears to benefit CEOs more than […]
A Framework for Women to Lead
While the world is evolving, women are still lagging when it comes to leadership roles. Women have many inborn leadership traits. Despite being strong, smart, technically competent and emotionally valiant, there is a broad spectrum of challenges women face at the workplace and in leadership roles. This program is specially designed for women to reach higher – at […]
