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April 24, 2014

Women’s Leadership Events

If you live in Vancouver, join me for these upcoming events hosted by the Vancouver Board of Trade Women’s Leadership Circle (WLC).  I’ve been a member of the WLC Advisory Council for 5 years and we’ve been working hard to elevate women in business.  If you want to connect with women and men in the […]

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April 16, 2014

Lattés + Leadership Video Series #3

Shake up your Lunch & Learn events or any professional development program with this 6-part complimentary leadership video series. This is the third thought-provoking video I’ve picked (the topic is leveraging the happiness advantage at work) and provided compelling coaching questions for. Use this to facilitate dialogue and learning with groups of leaders in your organization. […]

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April 14, 2014

Top 6 Effectiveness Killers

  To operate at your best at as a leader, you’ll likely need to break some old habits. – Lisa Martin Here are the top 6 effectiveness killers along with 6 unbelievably simple solutions: 1)     Checking email obsessively. We have people like Steve Jobs to thank for both the joy and nightmare of mobile technology. […]

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March 24, 2014

Notice Your Energy Effect

  Some people have the magical effect of raising the energy level in a room.– Lisa Martin   What happens when you walk in a room? Everyone brings their personal energy to meetings, conference calls, interviews – every business encounter. Some people have the magical effect of raising the energy level in a room. When […]

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March 11, 2014

Lattés + Leadership Video Series

Shake up your Lunch & Learn events or any professional development program with this 6-part complimentary leadership video series. This is the second thought-provoking video I’ve picked (the topic powerful presence) and provided compelling coaching questions for. Use this to facilitate dialogue and learning with groups of leaders in your organization. Get your leaders together […]

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March 10, 2014

The Significance of Style

  When it comes to being a leader, style has little to do with the brand of your suit. – Lisa Martin   Style comprises everything about how you physically show up in the world. Do you come to work looking rumpled and unkempt? Do you rush ungracefully into meetings, disorganized and harried? When you […]

Advice
March 1, 2014

PechaKucha Anyone?

  If you live in Vancouver,  I’m MC’ing a really cool public event co-hosted by IABC/BD and BCHRMA – HR & Communications: Two Sides of the Same Coin. Hope to see you there on March 11… and, do, come say hello.

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February 23, 2014

Stop Pushing Yourself to the Brink

  It’s a sad truth that we live in a society that glamourizes stress.– Lisa Martin If you’re insanely busy, it must mean you’re important, talented and in demand. Right? No. Just no. If you’re insanely busy as a manner of course, bad things will transpire. Your body will breakdown, your mind won’t function well, […]

Advice
February 12, 2014

Lattés + Leadership Video Series Launches

Shake up your Lunch & Learn events or any professional development program with this 6-part leadership series. Once a month (for the next 6 months) I will select a thought-provoking video (often a TED Talk or RSA video) and provide compelling coaching questions. Use these to facilitate dialogue and learning with groups of leaders in […]

Video
February 10, 2014

Question Reality

    “The tricky thing about denial is you don’t know you’re in it” – LISA MARTIN Few people go around thinking, ‘Wow, I suspect I’m in denial about important aspects my life.’ To discover denial you have to let your mind do a difficult thing. You need to let it question how you see […]

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