Career Transitions are part of the changing cycles of life. But if the career you’re leaving behind is one you loved it can be very painful. This is tennis star and icon Serena Williams’ testimony as she announces her upcoming retirement in September’s Vogue cover story from a sport that defined her for most of her life. Here are a few lessons we can all take away from her story.

You’re not just an employee. You're a personal brand. My Resume Rebrand service helps you to showcase your unique brilliance. This IS the service you want to leverage to document your skills, strengths, and superpowers so they stand out rather than your job titles.

As aspiring or current leaders, we need to cultivate a network of trusted mentors and colleagues to support, champion and advocate for us. No one leads effectively in isolation. Build out your Success Squad with these tips.

Imagine designing a career where you can make a significant impact doing work that is rewarding, meaningful, aligned with your strengths and talents, and makes you fulfilled. Here’s a secret to doing just that.

While there is no perfect hack to rid you of imposter syndrome indefinitely, practicing these tried and true strategies will help you manage your bouts with anxiety, self-doubt, lack of confidence, and insecurity that imposter syndrome fosters.

Successful, purpose-driven professionals with high aspirations can find themselves crippled with insecurity, doubting themselves even as they achieve milestone after milestone. This is a condition known as imposter syndrome. Here’s how you can combat it.

You’re an ambitious go-getter focused on realizing your big vision. So much so that you sometimes forget to stop and acknowledge the progress you are making to get there. As Part 1 of this post demonstrated, celebration helps us soar to even greater heights, helps us build confidence, and keeps our momentum on fire. Here are five more truths about celebrating your successes that will help you become a believer.

As a purpose-driven woman, it can be challenging to take time out in the pursuit of your goals to celebrate your wins. We focus so much on the doing, it can be hard for us to see the value in the being. But like I tell my clients, your doing comes from your being, so it is critical to make sure you are your own best champion. Here are five truths about celebrating your wins that will help you get on board.

The secret to career success is building one that capitalizes on your signature strengths and allows you to bring the best of your brilliance to work. Gaining clarity about your strengths gives you the foundation for designing a strategic career plan and helps build your confidence about what key attributes you bring to the table. Tired of being overlooked, undervalued, and underestimated? The secret to career success is all about playing to your strengths.

We are each blessed with strengths, interests, and passions that make us exceptional at what we do, in our career, business, ministry or life. Aligning our purpose with our strengths is key to excellence in our work and serving our sphere exceptionally. In Part 2 of his post, I continue using the “Parable of the Talents” as context, to explore the implications of playing small with our talents and comparing our expression of our talents with others.

We are each blessed with strengths, interests, and passions that make us exceptional at what we do, in our career, business, ministry or life. Aligning our purpose with our strengths is key to excellence in our work and serving our sphere exceptionally. Using the “Parable of the Talents” as context, in Part 1 of this post I explore the deeper implications for how we are to steward God’s gifts and the consequences of wasting or misusing these gifts.

Authenticity is at the heart of every powerful, impactful, and influential leader. As an aspiring leader, the fastest path to crafting a brand reputation that is aligned with the best of what you have to offer is simply being authentic. Only when your actions and words are congruent with your beliefs and values and you are showing up fully as yourself, are you leading authentically. It is your differentiator, your secret sauce.

Acting as If is a simple technique I use in my coaching practice as it encourages clients to think, act, and feel as if they have a desired state. When I use Acting as If in coaching, I’m inviting my clients to speak from a future state and to embody the behaviors, attitudes, and actions that are true in that state. This enables them to try on new ways of being, and when paired with visualization and affirmation, can become a powerful force for enduring change.

Visualization is the process of creating a vivid mental image of a future event. Cognitive scientific research indicates that since the brain doesn’t know the difference between a real memory and an imagined one if you envision something vividly enough, your mind perceives it as something real that you’ve already experienced. This is why many celebrated athletes, such as Serena Williams, Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Jack Nicklaus, and others successfully use visualization to level up their game. And so can you!

Many newbies think personal branding is all about their social media presence and website design. While these are certainly important aspects of your marketing and branding, the heart of your personal brand is about you—your entire persona. It includes your personality, strengths, values, beliefs, experiences, and your own image. Here are six personal branding checkpoints.

Excellence is active—it is about doing, not simply being. But what really drives a person to excel? I think if we observed the habits of those who we hold in high esteem for their commitment to excellence, we will find they are I.N.S.P.I.R.E.D: Innovative, Nimble, Success-driven, Purposeful, Integrity, Results-oriented, Engaged, Diligent.

Facing vulnerability head on is the only way to move forward authentically and experience true intimacy in our relationships. Here are five strategies to lean into vulnerability successfully.