Looking For The Right Risks In Your Life

Looking For The Right Risks In Your Life

New opportunities – how scary and exhilarating they can be! The tricky thing with opportunity is that they also come with risk. The right risk might stop you in your tracks, but do you really want your fear of risk to stop you from accessing all of the...

The Danger Of Ignoring Ideas

I’ve been to MIT and helped to lead a strategic planning process for a gifted group of researchers. I know that session went well, but I don’t think I wowed them with my ideas like this young man from Sierra Leone wowed me and the MIT community. Kelvin Doe...
Martin, Gandhi, & Me

Martin, Gandhi, & Me

Before starting Giant Leap Consulting, I spent six years as an executive with Accenture, one of the world’s largest management consulting firms. During my time there, I became the company’s first full-time internal executive coach. Just before moving into the role, I...
The Courage To Change

The Courage To Change

For better and for worse, I am an immoderate person, with an appetite for life that is at once passionate and gluttonous. Once I commit to something, I’m “all-in” and have little use for moderation. In some areas of my life this has served me well — for example,...
Express Gratitude Daily

Express Gratitude Daily

Who has helped make you who you are today? That was the straightforward yet complex question that got me thinking about gratitude. The names came to me quickly. My parents, my brother, one particular teacher, a colleague, a minister, and several friends. These people...