I’m in my 20’s and I have a dream. I’ve been working in the perfume business for a few years, and I know that people are fascinated by the stories of where fragrance ingredients come from. My daydreaming goes something like this, “Claire, you are going to write an amazing best-seller that is a fragrance […]

Does it ever feel like you are working too hard? Like you are boiling the ocean trying to get people to do what you want, to make things happen in a certain order so everything works out? There’s something about letting go that can feel like a con, “If I let go, things will fall […]

Thanks to many of you who responded to my survey on topics of interest. Overwhelmingly the topics you asked for were Confidence and Burnout, so I’ll give you both. This is the third of my confidence series. Also watch out for the webinar coming in January: The Confidence Toolkit – How to Know What to Say […]

A Simple Step to Confidence Thanks to many of you who responded to my survey on topics of interest. Overwhelmingly the topics you asked for were Confidence and Burnout, so I’ll give you both. This is the second of my confidence series.  Also watch out for the webinar coming in January: The Confidence Toolkit – How […]

This is the first of my confidence series. Also watch out for the webinar coming in January: The Confidence Toolkit – How to Know What to Say in Every Situation, From Navigating Your Career to Inspiring Your Team Every semester in the public speaking team I work with we ask students on stage, “On a scale […]

A Hidden Trick to Avoiding Procrastination Recently I was asked to contribute to an article on Today.com. Very exciting overall! But especially so because the author used one of my favorite procrastination avoiding tricks. Here’s the deal. Do you find that you have a revolving To-Do list that never quite goes down? Or that at the […]

One of the big challenges to creating change at work today is that people are tired of change. They’re tired of learning a new project management software. They’re tired of training their replacement. Or of re-doing plans and forecasts because the company got unexpected results in Region XYZ. Maybe I’m making too big a leap, […]

A few weeks ago I plowed through a book that upended what I’ve been teaching for years. And I couldn’t be more excited. One of my core beliefs is that we lack confidence because we don’t truly, deeply understand what we bring to the table. Based on that I work with people to understand their […]

Do you ever get tired of saying yes to that favor at work, even though you know you’ll resent it? Or being the one who takes the lead because you just know no one else will step up? Habits are hard to change and even harder to change when they are linked to our identity. […]

Change has been on my mind a lot. Maybe it’s the fall leaves. Maybe I’m ready for a change! The thing about change is that we want it, but we resist it. Or kick it down the road. It’s normal to fear change and that fear shows up in all kinds of ways. My take […]