Are you ready for change but not ready to change?

As an former individual, couples and family psychotherapist, FBI and police hostage negotiation trainer and now executive coach and key advisor to CEO's and Chairman of the Boards I have come to realize that most people are ready for change but few are ready to change.

It is not just a matter of stubbornness, resistance and counterproductive habits.  In this siloed world where people are highly skilled but with a narrow focus (and confusing jargon to outsiders that reinforces it) people view the world in an increasingly narrow way that validates their POV. 

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Run Better Meetings

The secret to running better meetings is to run meetings better.

Duh...

The secret to running meetings better is to fully engage the participants. And the secret to engaging them is to "get into their thinking."

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Before You Hire an Executive Coach

An executive coach helps managers and executives reach their full potential by helping them see and seize opportunities, see and overcome obstacles and see and avoid risks that they might otherwise not be aware of or if aware, tend to minimize.

Executive coaches are called upon to provide the following (or a combination of them):

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Why So Many High Achievers Feel Unfulfilled - The Syndrome of Disavowed Yearning

Client: I don't think I've ever done anything important.

Me: What? You have a hospital named after you. You've created an industry and thousands of jobs.

Client: I have all the admiration, love and respect that money can buy and that's all it's worth. I'm not really close to anyone ...

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What does it take to be Heartfelt?

You will come across hundreds of characteristics people say you must have in order to be heartfelt. Most of them will probably be sensible and of course, they are good characteristics. You cannot be angry all the time and be heartfelt. Here are some of the most revered traits people wish they had in their personality:

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Calling All PTSD Programs for Veterans - The Ultimate Question

Please share this with any soldiers or veterans you know that have PTSD and have undergone or are currently receiving treatment for it and with any programs you know of that are providing treatment for PTSD.

"When I come home from Iraq, I just want to help people." - Evan Ashcraft (5/22/79 - 6/24/03)

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Grokking Steve Jobs - Build an "Insanely Great" Company

Their gap is your command

Like one of the multitude of enthusiastic readers of Walter Isaacson’s terrific book, I’ve been trying to grok Steve Jobs’ way of looking at the world so that my clients and I can benefit from it.

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Nelson Mandela - a life of "Daring to Care"

All heartfelt people do heartfelt things, but not every person who does heartfelt things is a heartfelt person. Heartfelt doing makes is great for the world; heartfelt being is great for humanity.

As Nelson Mandela shortly leaves us I find myself much sadder than when other great people have died.

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