Discover the unexpected secret to professional success in 2023. This insightful blog reveals why a people-first mindset, not just achievements, is crucial for career growth. Learn from real-life stories of C-suite leaders and embrace authentic leadership for a transformative year ahead. Perfect for leaders seeking to enhance their communication and public speaking skills.

Join Tihanna Louise as she delves into the often-overlooked struggle of self-gaslighting. Discover how to recognize and overcome this internal barrier to unlock your true potential. It's time to celebrate your achievements and trust your intuition!

Discover how leaders can overcome the fear of change and foster team growth. Explore the neuroscience behind successful leadership transformations and learn strategies for embracing change in the corporate world.

As a manager, you're basically the glue that holds everything together. But what happens when your direct reports feel like you're not listening to them? It creates this terrible cycle of miscommunication and frustration that can ultimately damage your team and work environment. So, how do you avoid this?

Most people will and do experience career challenges, like struggling to fit in, dealing with difficult co-workers, confronting toxicity, getting along with the boss, perfecting time management, overcoming harassment and/or discrimination, and combating burn out.

These types of things will make or break us.

On September 9, Mercury began its third retrograde of the year, starting in Libra before continuing into Virgo on the 23rd, and not resuming direct course until October 2nd. Count on stalls, lurches, miscommunications, backfires, and other flaws in the plan along the way. No two signs are more concerned with objective perfection than Libra and Virgo, making the trickster planet’s work that much easier — and your life that much harder.

“Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.”

I’m going to get really real. I’m a yeller.

I come by it honestly. When I was a child, my mother yelled all.the.time. It was a manifestation of her own trauma, of course, and she did it to feel safe and powerful…

How do you create a sense of urgency that inspires action and not stress in your audience? Here are my 4 tips to do just that in any public speaking role – whether you’re talking to your team, presenting to the board, or delivering a keynote address.

Without forgiveness, there can be no trust. Without trust, there can be no leadership.

You know that old saying, heavy is the head that wears the crown? There is a direct relationship between effective leadership and responsibility that can easily be overlooked in a corporate structure of titles, management, and business hierarchy.

Unless you’re new around here, you know how passionate I am about reading. In fact, I have an entire section of my website dedicated to books that have been ‘Worth A Read’ for me. In a world that is chock full with ways to learn new things, master fresh skills, and expand our horizons, you’ll still find me curled up the old-fashioned way: with a BOOK.

You’ve developed a superpower when you have overcome or improved upon an identified issue. If that issue is public speaking or leadership, congratulations! You’re in good company. Forbes says over 70% of career professionals fear public speaking or presenting from the front of the room, while over 45% consider themselves to need “better leadership skills.”

When it’s time to increase your presence, influence and impact without compromising on authenticity or results, it’s time to speak like a leader. If the ability to persuade, influence and communicate effectively is essential to your role, but you feel frustrated by your current capacity to do so, this article is the perfect starting point to help you flip the switch from meh to marvelous.

We are still in the midst of a global pandemic and now COVID cases are on the rise again. We are still witnessing senseless violence against people of color. We are living through a war, women’s rights are under attack and there is a recession looming. Yet, somehow we’re still expected to do our best work. Unreasonable expectations in combination with little-to-no support are a recipe for burnout. I want to share a few of my own hard-learned lessons as a burnout survivor with the hope that they may help anyone out there going through it NOW.

When I walked away from a 6-figure contract earlier this year (completely separate from my scenario above), I walked away from a superficially diverse c-suite filled with mostly (white) women and a few men. And, as excited as I was to join what was sold to me as a “sisterhood”, it was a horribly toxic, inauthentic nightmare of a company - that literally made me and my family sick.

Yes, we are all responsible for our own energy, protecting it, elevating it, understanding it, and shifting it for our own good. To do so successfully, we must accept and implement a radical level of self-care.

Sometimes this self-care looks like staying. And sometimes it looks like walking away.

Let’s talk about something that isn’t necessarily new, but is rather a much-needed approach for successful women and men in today’s professional environment to break limiting gender stereotypes inside of communication at work, helping them cultivate healthy professional relationships on all levels. Hint: this has got nothing to do with sacrificing any part of who you are.

I recently observed an exchange between a female senior executive manager and a female employee where the former called the latter “the weakest person we have” in her position in the company after the employee asked for assistance and feedback in an area where she felt she needed help. Shocking? It doesn’t just shock because of its poor taste. It’s truly terrible, toxic management from a communication standpoint because…

We sacrifice authenticity for ease, honesty for tact, and skirt around issues to make life “simpler” but in reality all this does is create conflict within ourselves. Our conflict-aversion becomes conflict-creation.

What if the real issue we should be discussing is less about gender and more about energy?

Here’s the real issue I want to address: it’s time to move away from the gender conversation and start addressing masculine and feminine energy. Feminine and masculine energies are equally important BUT in the world we’re living in today, more feminine qualities – like empathy, receptiveness, openness, intuition, etc – are desperately needed.

The common definition for energy is the ability to do work. In other words, everything and anyone who can do work has energy. Energy causes or makes change. It is either transformed or transferred every time work is being done. Since it changes form every time it’s used, the amount of energy in the universe will forever remain the same. It’s transference rather than recreation.