Confidence and Managing Yourself

How to build leadership presence through steadiness, judgment, and clarity — even under pressure. This skill is the foundation for a leadership style that enhances credibility and trust, especially in uncertain or high-stakes situations.

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Signs of Spring

Grateful today for these beautiful crocuses at the side of my driveway and other signs of spring. Forsythia buds. The nest with peeping chicks at the corner of the garden. Warmer days that promise better times ahead. These lines from Gerard Manley Hopkins have been ringing in my head today: And for all this, nature is never spent;    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;And though the last lights off the black West went    Oh, morning, at the brown…

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Boo! Seven Ways to Handle Fear

We all handle fear in our particular way. Some ways are healthier than others. Some of us love to be scared. Some of us not so much. As I’ve written before, emotions are filed away in our brains as if there were a file drawer for each emotion. Everything you have ever been afraid of gets filed in the fear drawer, or neural network as a psychologist would call it. If you have unresolved fears from the past, those old…

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Lisa D. Foster, Ph.D. ACC  is an independent coach. As an Associate Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation, Lisa honors and abides by the ICF Code of Ethics.  All coaching sessions and consultations are confidential.

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