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\"Questioning<\/a><\/p>\n

Leadership is Personal<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

I had a stimulating\u00a0conversation with an amazing person the other day. \u00a0<\/strong>She is the president of a company striving to build a better\u00a0world, and many of her observations and questions revolved the topics of social impact, making a difference, and the power of Leadership.
\nWe really connected around a descriptor she used for her company: we don’t fit into the boxes.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 What her company does is outside the “norm” and I related to that, as my brand has puzzled many people for years (Happiness? What does that have to do with work?). \u00a0We talked about the need to find and serve the people for whom we CAN make a difference, people with passion and purpose and a desire to make the world a better place.
\nShe is also coach, insofar as great leaders use\u00a0coaching as a key skill to engage and develop others and facilitate decisions. Her questions challenged me to be clearer about myself and what I offer. <\/strong>
\nOne of those questions was, \u201cWhat is the key learning that your executive clients take from working with you?\u201d My response was, \u201cWho you ARE is who shows up.\u201d As I said that aloud, I could feel how true it is for me.<\/strong>
\nLeadership is Personal, <\/strong>and the clients who most benefit from working with me are those who bring their whole self to coaching, who understand that unless they change, nothing changes.<\/p>\n

Who You Are Is Who Shows Up<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

The conversation forced me into reflection — exquisitely well-timed <\/strong>as I am writing my 2017 business\u00a0plan and\u00a0preparing to fully reengage with my business after cutting back to\u00a0part-time to\u00a0manage the build of our new multi-generational home. \u00a0We’re now moved in and it’s time to…\u00a0well, that’s the question. \u00a0What is next for me?
\nI am at a place of many decisions. \u00a0<\/strong>My wife and I are redefining everything in our life, adjusting to new roles, new responsibilities and routines, even new shopping and commute patterns. \u00a0Years ago, after the death of one of our children, we adopted a philosophy of “new normal.” New Normal<\/strong><\/a> means\u00a0accepting that things will\u00a0never be back to normal, and giving yourself\u00a0permission to re-create normal in this new world.<\/strong> \u00a0Even though the disruptions in our life emerged from choice versus tragedy this time, the impact is still the same — we are in a space where we get to\u2014and indeed, must\u2014consciously decide what’s next.
\nOver the next few weeks I will be reflecting on this and other powerful questions, and right now I don\u2019t know what is going to emerge. <\/strong>My friend and colleague, Michelle James (www.CreativeEmergence.com<\/a>), is a pioneer in the field of emergence, and she often uses a birthing metaphor to describe the creative process, in that \u201cbirth involves pain and screaming and blood\u201d before the baby (or idea) is born, and that\u2019s exactly where I am today.
\nThe questions I\u2019ll be working with: <\/strong><\/p>\n