Whether you are leading the change or leading through change, it is important to realize that you don’t have to have all the answers. You are creating something new and different, and you are likely taking some risk. In this blog I share certain skills that have consistently helped me navigate the challenges inherent to significant change initiatives.

This blog shares valuable insights from a recent team coaching session. We always impact the people around us and that is especially true when we’re working in a team.

If you are you leading a newly formed team and are seeking to build a resilient and supportive team culture; if your team is facing a challenging work environment or highly demanding project and could use an energy boost; or if your team is composed of highly capable individuals, but is struggling to become a cohesive unit you might find these insights helpful and enlightening.

In this blog I explore the benefits of involving horses in leadership and personal development coaching. I share insights from my coaching practice, especially with regard to increasing self-awareness, improving emotional intelligence, and strengthening social competence.

Human society is the result of our ability to communicate. Typically, when we talk about communication we think about the spoken and written language. But no conversation about communication is complete without also talking about non-verbal communication. This blog sheds light on the power of the unspoken, and how to increase our awareness for the information that is transmitted without the use of words.

Leadership is behaviour. Being a leader is something you do, not something you call yourself or are called.

This blog explores our different levels of authority as a leader — the realms of leadership — and what a leader’s mindset looks like in those realms.

Empathy is widely considered to be one of the most important leadership skills. Yet, it appears to be quite elusive in terms of living by it and demonstrating it day-by-day in an exemplary manner.

This blog offers a practical “how to?” guide and shares a few tips to help bridge the “say-do gap”.

Agility is a leadership skill that is considered one of the most essential attributes of a successful leader. It is a skill that can be learned and strengthened. This blog focuses on three challenges that are typically encountered when seeking to attain agility — and how they can be overcome.

This blog is about relationships, why are they so important in our lives, and how we can maintain and manage them over time without burning bridges.

In this blog I explore another dimension of integrity: the state of being whole and complete. More specifically, the impact that relinquishing one’s integrity can have on one’s own well-being and sense of wholeness as a person. In engineering we speak of structural integrity. What about your personal “structural integrity”?

This blog is about achieving excellence. And how our mindset — the view we adopt for yourself — profoundly affects the way we live our life.

This blog is about honesty as the foundation for everything. The importance of being honest to yourself first. And how an honest look in the mirror can lead to meaningful professional and personal growth.

This blog introduces Spiegelbild’s brand values and explains what creativity means in the context of Spiegelbild’s programs. It also highlights why you, the customer or client should pay attention to brand values, what they tell you.

This blog is about the personal story of the “Why” for Spiegelbild. Remember when Indy had the confidence to crawl through all those snakes? Let’s embark on a quest to find confident leadership.

In this blog I add my personal perspectives to the knowledge base that’s been developed around emotional intelligence. The experiences I share build upon the four core competencies of emotional intelligence, and add insights about how growing your EQ can benefit relationships and performance at work.

This blog is about the importance of the people behind every business, and that building and maintaining relationships is probably the most important skill an entrepreneur can acquire.

This blog is about coping strategies that can help to put certain back in uncertainty, and minimize the negative impact uncertainty has on our day-to-day lives.

This blog provides insights into today’s changing work environment, and why engaging in equine-assisted coaching programs can be one way to have a leg-up in the competition for talent.

This blog explains the difference between coaching, mentoring and training, and provides examples in which situation each of these approaches might be most beneficial.

This blog is about getting comfortable with the uncomfortable. It’s about being aware of your comfort zone and its restrictions. Because once you understand the boundaries of your comfort zone, and find the courage to step beyond them, you will realize that you can discover a whole new world.

This blog is about the essence and power of pause — go slow to go fast — and why understanding its power is so important for leaders and in leadership.