On September 25th, one hundred ninety-three world leaders convened at the United Nations to adopt the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals, a group of 17 goals encompassing 169 targets aimed at achieving a “supremely ambitious and transformational vision.” This vision foretells a world in the year 2030 significantly improved in 5 key areas: people, planet, prosperity, […]
True empowerment comes from within each of us as individuals. It comes from giving power to ourselves by awakening what already lies within us. I believe one of the most unsupportive beliefs about empowerment is that empowerment is given to us by other people; it implies we must wait for it to be given to […]
Are you living in a marriage where you have had to change who you are, or have lost sight of yourself completely, just to avoid conflict and minimize fear? Are you working in a particular job or industry because your parents or spouse told you it was the responsible choice? Are you a woman who […]
It was a genuine honor to be interviewed for a January 22nd Financial Times article on hiring introverts. It’s important to add that I feel compelled to say, as an advocate for introverts, the title itself was disappointing: “Introverts Pose a Problem for Hirers.” I say this because it feels we introverts are so often […]
I have written many times during the past 18 months about how it was my loyal participation in #Blogchat on Twitter, and the encouragement of the #Blogchat Community, that gave me the knowledge and confidence needed to launch my own blog. So when I say that co-hosting #Blogchat this past Sunday night with Mack Collier […]
I wrote a post a few months ago entitled, “The Number One Thing CEOs Wish They’d Done Differently.” In that post I talked about how invariably when CEOs are asked, “What’s the one thing you wish you’d done differently when you took your role” they say, “I wish I’d moved faster on talent decisions.” You […]
By Lisa Petrilli I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing the CEO of a near-billion dollar services company last week who has created a leadership development program lauded by major consulting firms as “the best ever seen” at a major company. He asked to remain anonymous but was more than happy to allow me to share 6 […]
February 10th by Lisa Petrilli Readers: This blog post originally appeared at LeadSwag as part of their Women’s Leadership Month series. I wanted to share it with each of you… ~ This is the 3rd post in the Women’s Leadership Month series, and I couldn’t be more honored to be a part of it! In […]
By Lisa Petrilli Steve Woodruff and I decided to focus on the topic of “the difficult follower” at this week’s #LeadershipChat on February 1st. In preparation for the topic, and in thinking about my own personal experiences both leading and following, I of course had to look in the mirror and ask myself when I’d been a […]
By Lisa Petrilli I’m starting to realize just how important it is for a leader to be comfortable with discomfort. Why? Because it’s in the discomfort of true transformational change that: we understand the depth of our humanity (and flaws) we move beyond our flaws to discover our real potential to soar we come to […]
