Executive Coaching & Leadership Development Blogs
Stop designing your company around the people you have
Instead, start with a clean white sheet and figure out the people you need.
How to Retain Your Top Employees When You Can't Promote Them
When promotion timelines stretch and compensation gains stall, even your strongest talent starts questioning whether the expectations set early on still hold true or if the rules of the game have changed and the end of their career at the company is near. Here’s how the smartest leaders re-recruit their talent when raises slow and promotions stall.
Executive Calendar Discipline: Protecting Your Time To Drive Results
A full calendar can create the illusion of productivity, because this way you’re involved, visible and there for your people. But busyness and progress are not the same. I’ve seen executives spend entire weeks inside meetings only to realize on Friday afternoon that they never really created time to think about the business itself.
How Your Need for Control Is Quietly Destroying Team Accountability — and How to Finally Let Go
The more leaders control execution, the less ownership their teams feel. Real accountability starts when leaders let go.
Investor Expectations Have Changed. Here’s What Founders Need to Know Now.
Investor expectations have tightened, and the data reflects it. The most recent reports show a more selective funding environment that puts greater emphasis on fundamentals and long-term sustainability. Growth alone no longer carries the same weight it once did.
What Leading Without Authority Teaches You That Titles Never Will
Leading without a title forces a level of trust, alignment and influence that formal authority can’t replicate.
What Ted Lasso Understands About Leadership That Most Founders Get Wrong
As Ted Lasso returns this summer, its leadership lessons offer founders a practical blueprint for leading under pressure with clarity, trust and impact.
How to motivate your team when the ladder stops moving
If your company's career ladder is no longer moving people up, Michel Koopman offers strategies to keep your best talent.
Your Colleagues Are Crucial to Your Promotion. Here's Why.
Many of us want to get promoted at work, but don’t often stop to consider what that means.
Moving into the executive ranks often means leading the very people you once worked alongside. And while you might attract attention with stellar performance, it’s not enough to secure your success as a leader.