LEADERSHIP AND PERMACULTURE
Last week, at the end of an Executive Committee offsite I was facilitating, one sentence emerged clearly: “our real challenge is prioritization.” A rare moment of lucidity. In many organizations, especially when pressure rises, everything becomes a priority.Initiatives multiply. Ambitions multiply. Objectives multiply.We talk about execution, performance, engagement. And yet, this is often where things […]
I AM RED
“I’m red. That’s just how I am.”The same sentence after every piece of feedback… until the HR Director called me. Red, green, blue, yellow.I know these personality tools well. They help put words on our preferences and ways of operating.They help us understand our blind spots.They can create real moments of awareness. But they were […]
LEADERSHIP AND THE OLYMPICS — The Effort / Recovery Cycle
The Olympic Games show us something essential about performance.And yet, the moment we are back at work, we continue to act as if it does not apply to us. From the Paris 2024 Olympic Games to the most recent Winter Games, one thing became obvious to me. No champion who reached a final had ignored […]
UNINTENTIONAL IMPACT
I was once told that I could come across as distant.I had no idea I was creating that impact. That sentence came back to me last week, when a client told me about feedback she had just received.People tell her she is nice. Maybe too nice. A word that sounds positive.And yet, it made her […]
THE CONFIDENTIALITY TENSION
An HR leader once asked me to tell them about a coaching engagement “while respecting confidentiality.”I was caught off guard. And it was not the only time I heard this.Each time, I felt the same thing. My first reaction: slight indignation.Then a real question: why this request? And I understood something important. These stakeholders are […]
WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP
For a long time, I rejected the idea of women’s leadership.A leader is a leader. Full stop. When I was a manager in a company, I did not want to be placed in a separate category.Complexity, decisions, conflict, exposure, loneliness:we all face the same challenges. And then I became a coach.And then I started working […]
PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY
Psychological safety does not remove tension.It prevents rupture. And yet, it is often misunderstood. It is not a space where everyone agrees.It is not a space where people avoid saying things “so as not to hurt anyone.” Nor is it a place where kindness is confused with comfort. Psychological safety is something else. It is […]
NEAR ENEMY AND FAR ENEMY
We instinctively think of brands, poorly made copies, fake bags or counterfeit logos.But our values can be counterfeited too. We easily spot what goes “against” our values.But we are much less able to see what looks like them… and quietly damages them. This idea comes from Buddhism: far enemy / near enemy.The far enemy is […]
NIGHT FURY
“Intense” leaders often end up in one of two boxes: either they are toned down, or they are feared.But what if, instead of judging their power, we helped them learn how to channel it? A client recently asked me a question that stayed with me. “Is there still room, in organizations, for passionate and deeply […]
WHAT’S COMING AND WHAT’S HERE
Everything is accelerating.Our nervous system, however, is not keeping up. I recently listened to Brené Brown in conversation with Amy Webb.And it helped me put words to something many people are sensing, often without being able to name it. We are entering a technological super-cycle. This phenomenon is the result of three major dynamics: artificial […]