Practice Your Leadership

Navigating uncertainty is hard. What helps? Letting go of your need to control the situation.  Sit with your emotions, acknowledge your fears, and face the unknown. To hold your big feelings, building the capacity to hold resiliency makes it a whole lot easier.  Create and commit to resilience-building practices to rely on that stock of resiliency when you need it.  For exclusive prompts, tools, a...

Just like that, we find ourselves in the final month of the year. And with it comes the perfect opportunity to reflect back on 2022 and what it has taught you. Reflection is powerful. It helps clear the clutter and the noise and helps you focus on what’s important to you now. Let’s get intentional about the practice of learning and growth through the process of reflecting. For exclusive prompts, t...

Receiving feedback can be difficult. Sometimes it’s solicited, sometimes not. Sometimes triggering, sometimes not. Regardless, it can be easy to take offense to any form of criticism and dismiss its value. The key here is to ground yourself and gain perspective so you’re able to handle that feedback and appreciate all that it’s trying to teach you. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to he...

Gratitude comes in the form of warm and fuzzies. There's no doubt about it. But it also comes from those places that you're avoiding, that are uncomfortable, that are triggering you, and that are pissing you off. Part of the practice of having gratitude is looking at the things that you don't want to be looking at, leaning into the discomfort, and learning from it. For exclusive pro...

Sweet summertime. A time to soak in the sun, feel the grass on our toes, and unwind.  It’s also a fabulous time to pause, reflect, and integrate all we’ve learned so far in 2022.  Why? Because reflection is powerful. It helps clear the clutter and the noise and helps you focus on what’s important to you now.

We all have different voices in our head – a shamer, an inner critic, maybe even a dreamer – following us through life and giving their two cents on our every move. Let’s call them our inner team. Our instinct is to squash these team members. But what would be possible if we took the time to get to know them instead?  What is the wisdom they hold? How can we work with these team members now? We cr...

Your inner work starts with setting healthy boundaries in your relationships. Boundaries are expectations and needs that help you feel safe and comfortable in your relationships, according to Nedra Glover Tawwab. Simply put, they help you prioritize self-care and allow your leadership to thrive. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscribe to our...

Receiving feedback isn’t easy. It can be difficult to take criticism from others – even if it’s coming from a constructive place. But just like giving feedback to others allows us to move forward in relationship with others, allowing yourself to receive that feedback does the same.  To receive feedback with curiosity, understanding, and self-compassion you need to do your own work, advocate for wh...

Being able to effectively provide feedback is an incredibly important leadership skill that needs to be cultivated. Why? So we can create healthy dialogue that allows us to effectively move forward in relationship with each other and get the work done. So how do you do it? Do your own work, frame up the conversation, listen with compassion, and create actions that allow for accountability.  For ex...

The average employee spends more than two hours per day on drama. Yup. You read that right.  So how do we prevent this? How do we create aligned teams that are built on trust, clear communication, and shared goals?  Design an alliance with your team that defines how you work so that you can do the work. For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadership journey, subscrib...

We’re all entering into unchartered territory. As we return to work – whether that’s in-person, remote, or hybrid – we can’t go back to the way things were in February 2020. We’ve all had challenges and learnings over the past two years. Our priorities, desires, and mindsets have all changed.  And while that might feel scary, I challenge you to join me in a stance of opportunity and optimism.  We...

In the past two years, we’ve all experienced a massive shift.  We’ve had to change the way we live and operate to adapt to the changing tides.  Now, as people begin to reintegrate into society and head back into the office, we find ourselves in a moment in time where we have the opportunity – or perhaps the requirement – to change the way we do things based on what we need right now.  Life doesn’t...

Designing meetings will make them meaningful, increase engagement, and enhance efficiency.  Not exactly news – but do you do it? Meetings can be tedious. Boring. You can find yourself and others fading, attempting to multitask, stressed to get real work done, or wondering how time could be used more effectively. In a time where we are redesigning how we work together – meetings need attention. Wha...

We’re all chasing what’s already within us. Confidence.  This week, I’m thrilled to be joined by mindset coach Kirstin Battista to explore how to draw out the confident being that lives in all of us.  Confidence looks and feels different for everybody. Tapping into it is a practice that has the power to change your life.  For exclusive prompts, tools, and resources to help you along your leadershi...

Do you ever watch something that resonates with you way more than you thought it would? That lights a fire under you? That inspires?  Lizzo’s reality show “Watch Out For The Big Grrrls,” holds powerful leadership lessons around delivering feedback, self-accountability, shining a light on narratives and societal constructs, and owning your identities. These practices allow you to rise in your leade...

How do you navigate transition? Many of us are reintegrating back into society after two years of a global pandemic. Some of you might be starting a new job, shifting careers, or surfing any other waves of change life has thrown your way.  That isn’t easy. Change isn’t easy. Let’s hold space to remember the leadership practices that allow us to tap into our resiliency through the changing tides. F...

What do you do when it’s all too much? When the world feels heavy and your mind feels scrambled – how do you tap into your resilience? Airlines might have it right when they tell you to put your own mask on first. When the world is in disarray, it needs you to show up with kindness and compassion. Practice what it takes to get to that place even when it seems impossible.  For exclusive prompts, to...

Challenging times, volatility, and uncertainty won’t just disappear one day. We will always have muck sticking to our feet, fighting to bring us to the ground. So how do you fight it? How do you cut through the noise and rise? As leaders, we’re required to cultivate the conditions needed to practice resiliency in our leadership. Centre your why, connect with artifacts that remind you of what you s...

Whether we suffer from it or perpetuate it, unconscious bias is all around us. Our brains climb the ladder of inference and make snap judgments and assumptions about others in the blink of an eye. So what is the leadership practice here to come into your agency to address and work on the biases you hold unconsciously? And what do you do when you’re facing unconscious bias yourself?  It’s up to us...

In the wake of the Spotify controversy surrounding Joe Rogan and the likes of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Brené Brown, and more, the question begs to be asked: how do we as leaders wield our influence and power?  When making complex decisions that affect those around you… What do you say? How do you act? What do you share? As a leader, you center your values and wield your power and influence in a...

Practicing your leadership means looking at who you are and who you are becoming. It means identifying your identities, examining how they intersect, understanding how they play into your power and privilege, and committing to doing your own work to understand your influence on others.  Why? So we can understand ourselves and our leadership at a deeper level and so we can stand in a place of empat...

We all get in the feels. Emotions are always present – but not always visible. Doing the work to make emotions visible allows us to collect data about ourselves and others, create healthy boundaries, and stand in a place of empathy.  In this podcast, Saralyn is joined by artist, designer, graphic recorder, and so much more, Abby VanMuijen to talk about their Emotion Wheel – a tool that uses colour...

How do you trust yourself to make decisions in wobbly times? In this episode, Saralyn encourages you to stay with the wobbly, acknowledge your fears, and believe in yourself and your intuition. Decisions are sources of learning. Sit with your emotions, centre your values, identify your stance, and align with your purpose to self-author your path with conscious, learningful decisions. For exclusive...

Challenges. Grief. Setbacks. Growth. The pandemic has completely changed the way we live, work, and lead. It has forced us to tap into our resiliency. To prioritize rest. To redefine productivity. To learn countless lessons about ourselves, our leadership, and the world around us. As we near two years of living with Covid-19, let’s take a purposeful pause and reflect on what we’ve learned. For exc...

Grab your favourite pen, all. It’s time to do your own work. In this first episode of a two-part reflection series, Saralyn invites you to look back on your 2021 and all of its significant happenings and learnings, so you can begin to consciously craft meaningful commitments to your leadership and inner work moving into the New Year. Subscribe to our newsletter and receive a free worksheet filled...