In every single room I’ve been in, I’ve heard one overwhelming issue.  “How do we get people to show up?”

I was standing in Barnes and Noble the other day, waiting to meet with a friend. It was busy, I was a little early, scanning the Non-fiction section of recently ‘hot items’ waiting for my friend to arrive.  I was thinking about authoring my own book.  Should I write?  Why would I write?  WHAT would I write?  And I was suddenly struck with this desperate feeling. Surprisingly, it wasn’t a desperate internal judgment, like “how could I ever compete with Mel’s book” (though I do think that...

The holidays are here — and for many professionals and leaders, that means things speed up just as our energy starts to slow down. In this new Consider Jennifer  episode, I talk about something I call The Stability Gap  — the space between the steadiness we need and the pace we push ourselves to keep. It’s that subtle disconnect that shows up when our nervous system, focus, and schedule aren’t moving in sync — and it’s one of the biggest reasons we end up feeling reactive, distracted, and...