Articles

A library of reflections on leadership, consciousness, and the work of awakening to a more aligned way of being. 

These essays are for leaders navigating the frontier between inner stillness and outer impact.

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Coaching Leadership

On Leading Without Losing Yourself

Leadership sometimes feels like a constant act of shapeshifting. In a single day, you are a mentor for your team, a peer to your colleagues, a subordinate to your bosses.  You are called to be a strategist who knows the right path forward, a diplomat navigating politics with astuteness, a taskmaster who gets his team members to deliver, and sometimes even a friend trying to preserve relationships while pushing back on ideas or giving feedback.

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Coaching Leadership Philosophy

A New Relationship with Your Mind

There is likely a voice in your head. If you've achieved a degree of material success, that voice is probably loud. Sometimes it fills you with ambition, infuses you with willpower, and pushes you forward beyond your limitations. Sometimes it replays mistakes on a loop, fuels the feeling of being an imposter, and second-guesses your decisions. It tells you that you’re not moving fast enough, not doing enough, not being enough. It could be the

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Leadership Philosophy

Integrity as a Force of Nature

My attempt here is to create a new possibility for you. You might be thinking of integrity as a moral act - keeping your word, being honest, acting ethically. These are all vital. But I've come to see that this is only a shadow of a much deeper reality. So I want to offer to you the possibility of a different kind of integrity: structural integrity or ontological integrity. It is the state of our inner

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Leadership

When The Plan Is The Problem

I spoke with an IT leader in his late 40’s this week. Amidst the news of industry-wide layoffs and economic shifts, we discussed the precariousness of the future. "The problem," he said, "is that our plans are becoming obsolete." He was talking about the five-year plans, the career ladders, the retirement timelines, the structured narratives we build to make sense of the world. But then he added a crucial insight that gets to the heart

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Leadership Philosophy

Navigating Infinite Complexity

After sitting in confidential conversations with leaders for a few thousand hours, I’ve come to fully appreciate that the unseen work of leadership is not in finding simple answers, but in developing our capacity to navigate complexity. Complexity isn’t just about having many moving parts. It’s a state where those parts are interconnected and unpredictable, where cause and effect are unclear, and where contradictory forces are often at play simultaneously. Basically, it is our reality. Reality

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Philosophy

Waking Up From The Money Games

In the world of leadership and coaching, one can’t help but notice the noise of numbers: the "7-figure coach", the "8-figure entrepreneur", the leader who speaks of the "$100k investment" they made in their personal development. We often see these numbers as proof of success on a universal scorecard. But this is based on a total misunderstanding. Money has no inherent meaning. Its value is a story we've all agreed to believe, and the rules

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Leadership

Calculation vs. Discernment in Decision Making

The Intelligence Beyond Your Mind Being a smart, analytical leader comes with a burden of always needing to have the ‘right’ answer. As I wrote in my reflections on 3,000 hours of coaching, this search for the right answer is often a trap. I know this weight intimately. For most of my early life, I relied exclusively on my calculating mind. It's the part of us that uses data, frameworks, and pro-con lists to de-risk the

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Culture Leadership Organizational Development

How Awakened Leaders Drive Change in Systems That Resist It

There comes a time when you’ve moved beyond simple productivity hacks and have come to understand that real performance comes from presence, not just frantic effort. You’ve tasted the clarity that comes from stillness. But this awakening brings a new, more sophisticated dilemma. You find yourself standing with one foot in a new inner world of clarity, and the other in an outer world—your organization, your team, your career—that hasn't changed. How do you operate

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Coaching Leadership

When to Burn the Map

Have you ever felt a tension between the “textbook” way to lead and what you know works in the messy reality of your role? It’s a common feeling for any seasoned professional. You’ve read the books, you’ve taken the courses, and you have the certifications. Yet, you find that in the most critical moments, the real work happens in a space where the playbook has no answers. This isn't just a personal struggle; it’s a

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