Can I say something gently, the way I would if we were sitting across from each other with an almond milk latte? If you’ve ever walked out of a meeting thinking, “Dang it. I should have said that,” you’re not alone.

January has a way of inviting performance. New goals. Clean slates. Confident declarations about what’s coming next.

Hanukkah has always meant something different to me than it did to most kids I grew up with. I was raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and in my elementary school, there were exactly two Jewish kids.

Last week, I led a workshop series called UNIGNORABLE. A deliberately designed space, a *taste* of the Executive Presence Accelerator, to show what happens when brilliant women stop shrinking, stop overfunctioning, and start leading from their actual authority.

“She was born to be a leader.” Sounds like a compliment, doesn’t it? I mean, you’re praising her leadership: It’s so good it must be in her DNA.