Visibility is one of the most needed career strategies for aspiring leaders yet one of the hardest to execute. It is especially hard for women who need to do more to prove their competence. Increasing your visibility takes intentionality and strategy. Here are five proven strategies to help you authentically level up your visibility.

Self-promotion gets a bad rap among women but it doesn’t have to. The truth is that for you to achieve recognition for your accomplishments and successes, your contribution needs to be visible. But it's only visible if you are intentional about making it so. Discover key ways to self-promote authentically and effectively.

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.

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.

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.

Personal branding is still a concept that is misunderstood among women who are new in the quest to carve a niche for themselves. But it is a critical component of marketing, as it informs your messaging and is the heart of your identity as a professional or business owner. Make sure you build it on a solid foundation.

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.