Legendary Leaders: For Female Business Leaders

We are in the midst of Preparation Season!  What's on the agenda for today?  Today is the day we perform a self-assessment of 2022.   No doubt you set goals for the current year.   This week we will look at your performance toward those goals, did you overdeliver, underdeliver, or hit the bullseye? And you want to identify exactly what you did to get you where you are...

It’s December 7th, and while many times we want to spend the month of December on self-reflection, we're not doing that this year.  We must prepare to move forward. I want you to hit 2023 with momentum, clarity, and confidence.  So while everyone else is spending January “preparing” for the year we are already in, you will be getting results. It's time to step into Preparation Season! Wh...

It’s the last episode in the series so let’s tie this thing up, shall we? We know what execing correctly means, why it matters, what burnout looks like, and why hesitation isn’t the answer if we truly want to succeed.  Today we are going to finish this series by talking about exactly what execing correctly looks like when you live in that executive performance space. We are going to formally...

Over the past few weeks, you have been learning the ins and outs of the psychology around "execing correctly."  We have talked about the fact that as executives, we are leaders, not doers.  We are owners, not operators.  We have discussed why learning to perform at the executive level is critical to your next chapter in career success.  If you want to continue to succeed in you...

It's almost Thanksgiving, which means most female corporate executives are stressing right now.  The reason is pretty simple.  If we don't believe we are execing correctly, we refuse to give ourselves permission to enjoy the holiday.  We must feel on track professionally before we can enjoy ourselves personally.   So we're stressing!  That's what we are working on and...

We are in the second episode of this month's mini-series focused on executive performance and ensuring we are performing at the highest level.  Are you execing correctly?  Do you know if you are or aren’t?  Why does it matter?  Today we are focusing on defining “why mastering is a must.” When you think about your executive career, at any point have you found yourself saying som...

Execing correctly; means we are performing solidly to exceptionally in our executive role.   The problem we face upon being promoted into the executive seat is that the majority of us are uncertain as to what "execing correctly" really means.  How do we succeed?  What does success look like?  What must we learn?  What must we keep doing vs. stop doing? We have a lot o...

We are in the last week of this mini-series which means this is the last step of this process in preparation for our "no regret" holiday season.  If one of your holidays on the list was Halloween, we are less than a week away from that holiday so we really need to close this out this week. So hopefully you’re thinking, “Katrina, give me the last step!”  Let’s do it. As it always is, the...

We are setting ourselves up for holiday success this year!  This is the year of no regrets!  No longer will we be working at our computers listening to our family's laughter in the next room.  No longer will we be physically with our families but mentally stressing about work.  No more!  To get ourselves to that place, we are working through a process.  Last week you...

Welcome to the second episode in this series focused on helping you create a "no regrets" holiday experience!  If you don’t listen to any other episodes for the rest of the year, I'm proud of you for listening to this one.  As a mom and a business leader, you can have career success and personal happiness without sacrificing one for the other.  If you're ready to create that for you...

It's that time of year again—the holiday season.  Oh yes, it is knocking on our doors, like a door-to-door salesman that we simply aren't ready to let in.  If you're staring at the calendar and asking yourself "How can it be here so quickly?!"  You're not alone.  I believe executive moms around the world are doing this exact same thing.  To help us all prepare, and most importantly, to empower us...

It’s the last Wednesday of the month which means it's time to take everything we have learned thus far and deliver the feedback to our teams in order to get them running and delivering in Q4. How do we do that?   How do we effectively deliver the feedback in such a way that the team is motivated to take proper action? Answer: by tapping into their 6 human needs. Said differently, we must...

This month's mini-series focuses on Our Team.  In order to close out 2022 on a high note and deliver to the company's established targets, our teams must be ready and able to help us achieve the financial and business metrics we have been assigned.  We have already started on this journey by ensuring we are ready to be the leaders our teams need us to be and we also created an unbiased a...

It's the time of year when we start thinking about the end of the year.  We start saying things like, "Where has the time gone?"  And then we start scrambling to close the gaps, get everything back on track, and deliver the year.  This month we are helping you do just that.  If you listened to last week's episode, you know that we looked in the mirror and performed a self-asses...

Are you ready to close the year strong in your organization?  Q4 is upon us if your corporation's fiscal calendar follows the calendar year.  What better time than the last month of Q3 to realign yourself and your team around the targets and value-adds the company needs from you? As you know, our focus here at Legend Leaders is to help executive leaders become assets.  How?  By...

We are on the last step of "how" to execute as an innovative leader.  Step 3-involve your team. Once you have learned how to execute steps 1 and 2, you can teach your team how to execute them.   We intentionally leave the "involve your team" step to last in this process to allow you to learn first. That said, are you ready to teach? The first step in involving your team is to ask them to...

You are on the path of learning how to be an innovative leader.  Now is the time to tackle step 2 of the process: check and reassess. In step 1, you identified what you can do better based on your responsibilities and areas of ownership in your organization.  Now it’s time to get to work. Where do you start? Go and do what you have already thought about doing.   As you look ove...

Over the past few weeks, you have become an innovative leader!  But I knew this day would come.  You’re out there, you’re confident that you can innovate, you have been learning what innovation means to your company and why you must innovate daily, but then the big question comes that stops us in our tracks. That question is, " Am I doing this right?"   And then we take it one step...

Last week in the innovative leadership mini-series, we reset our definitions of innovation and claimed our new identities as innovative leaders.  Today we are talking about why our companies need us to be innovative leaders and how that helps us in becoming irreplaceable assets. Let’s do a quick refresher.  I say the term “irreplaceable asset” all of the time because that’s what we focus...

Are you an innovative leader?  To answer that, we must first be able to answer the question: what is innovation? In the past, I used to hear the word innovation and I would shut down a bit.  Seriously.  I never considered myself “innovative.”  I would call myself a problem solver or someone who could brainstorm, but I wasn’t innovative.   Several years ago I realized...

We are wrapping up our mini-series on creating your "And Life."  If you haven't yet downloaded your free workbook, get it now so you can close out the series and take action.  How do you take action and create your "And Life?"  By mastering The 1 Rule. Know this, you deserve a life of success and happiness. Through this series, we have learned that success and happiness are not the...

As corporate women, we tend to struggle with creating a life of both success and happiness within our careers and families.  We want the "And Life," a life of success and happiness, but we don't know how to get it.  In this mini-series, we have talked about why we feel trapped in our current lives and why we want more.  Now we are diving into how we break free of the negative, self-...

Welcome to the 4-part mini-series dedicated to helping corporate executive women create their "And Life," a life of career success and personal fulfillment. Last week we identified why we have started feeling trapped in our current lives.  Today let's address the elephant in the room, why we want more out of life. Why do you want more?   Now if you immediately said to yourself, “ I...

This month we are focused on helping you create your "And Life."  As corporate executives, we have a life full of achievement and success.  We have worked diligently to earn this life and yet when we reach our late 30s/early 40s, we realize that something is missing.  We also want fulfillment. How do we get it?  How do we create an "And Life" of both achievement and fulfillment...

You have stepped up your leadership game these last few weeks, learning about the 6 human needs, how to recognize the need requests in others, and how to respond in order to help meet those needs.  But what about your needs?  What are they?  Are they serving you and your team or are your needs getting in the way?  Today we are diving into influencing your needs as a means of al...