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Loneliness as a Gateway

Moments of doubt, when the stakes are high and critical decisions must be made, and there’s no one alongside you.The weight of accountability, juggling multiple perspectives and expectations that few can truly measure or value.Not seen as fully part of your team, nor...

Listening to the Early Signals Before Burnout

Middle managers are asked to absorb pressure from above and implement often uncomfortable change below– sometimes at the cost of their team’s trust and their own alignment.Inside, it feels harder to sustain.Responsibility follows you into your personal life.Thoughts...

Leading from the Middle and from Within

When the tension of middle managers can become their path to inner mastery (1)Middle management is a place of tension.As a middle manager, you are the bridge.Caught between responsibilities from above, expectations from below, and your own integrity.It can feel...

Wishes for a Year of Flourishing

Wishes for a Year of Flourishing🌍 At this threshold between years, many of us feel our inner and outer worlds unsettled – amid transitions, uncertainty, and conflicts.In moments like these, what shapes the future most profoundly is the quality of consciousness we...

Receiving

A brush of the hand (Part II) — Receiving.True peace didn’t arrive for me with a treaty — it arrived with a single brush of the hand, many decades later.As a young child in the wartime of Cambodia, I couldn’t make sense of the powers at play; all I knew was the fear...

Giving

A brush of the hand (Part I) — Giving.In support of rural communities recovering from mass traumas, I facilitated a renewal workshop last year for the entire staff of a social-impact company in Cambodia.Recently in our new online leadership program, the managers...

Thank You

Thank you, truly.For every like, follow, and word that made me feel so welcome back, I am deeply grateful.I’m touched to be part of a community whose care sustains across time and distance.In this season of gratitude, I hope we each take a moment to hold in mind the...

Inspired

Over-reactions.Doubt.Closing your office door to return to yourself — only to be met by the loneliness of the leader.There are moments when leadership calls us inward —when you sense that the right attitude, the right decision, the right direction must arise from a...