Subscribe for Bite-Sized
Expert Healthcare Executive Coaching,
Delivered Directly to Your Inbox
Get clarity, strategy, and inspiration in your inbox every Wednesday. No fluff, just actionable leadership wisdom.
Sign up for free weekly insights to elevate your healthcare leadership.
Your weekly subscription includes:
- Immediately actionable leadership strategies
- Curated, research-backed resources
- Inspirational leadership quote
Trusted by 5,000+ Healthcare Professionals
Unsubscribe Anytime | 100% Privacy Guaranteed
Subscribe for Bite-Sized
Expert Executive Coaching,
Directly to Your Inbox
Get clarity, strategy, and inspiration delivered directly to your inbox every week. No fluff, just actionable leadership wisdom.
Sign up for free weekly insights to elevate your healthcare leadership.
Your weekly subscription includes:
- Immediately actionable leadership strategies
- Curated, research-backed resources
- Inspirational leadership quote
Tags: selfawareness
Showing 12 results:
The Leadership Cost of Needing to Be Liked
Most of us want to be liked.
We want strong relationships with our colleagues, positive interactions with our teams, and the satisfaction of knowing people enjoy working with us.
There's nothing inherently wrong with that. In fact, warmth, empathy, and approachability are valuable le...
Oct 21, 2026
approval
courage
feedback
leadership
leadershipperformance
selfawareness
Leadership Requires Continual Reinvention
Last week, I had the privilege of serving as a visiting professor, speaking with a group of senior physician leaders at a wonderful medical school about one of my favorite leadership topics: identity.
As we explored leadership development together, one idea kept resurfacing. We often p...
Aug 26, 2026
adaptability
changemanagement
courage
leadership
leadershipdevelopment
lifelonglearning
selfawareness
vulnerability
The Discipline Behind Better Decisions
High-performing leaders don't rely on good judgment alone.
They build processes that make good judgment more reliable.
No matter how experienced, intelligent, or accomplished we become, we're still human.
Emotion, urgency, assumptions, relationships, fatigue, and personal preferenc...
Aug 19, 2026
curiosity
decisionmaking
discipline
executiveleadership
leadership
leadershipdevelopment
selfawareness
A Leadership Best Practice Worth Stealing
One of the unexpected joys of executive coaching is that I'm constantly learning from my clients.
Recently, I began working with a new client, a leader in academic medicine.
Following one of our early coaching conversations, he reached out to share several intentional leadership acti...
Jul 29, 2026
cliftonstrengths
employeeengagement
executivecoaching
healthcareleadership
initiative
leadership
leadershipcoaching
leadershipcommunication
leadershipdevelopment
physicianleadership
selfawareness
transparency
trust
vulnerability
Why Leadership Growth Always Feels Uncomfortable
Nearly every meaningful opportunity in your career begins at what I call your growth edge.
That is the philosophy behind the name of both this newsletter and my podcast. Leadership growth rarely happens where we feel most competent or comfortable. It happens at the edge of our current ...
Jul 22, 2026
careeradvancement
careertransitions
clarity
coachability
courage
curiosity
growth
growthedge
healthcareleadership
humility
leadership
leadershipdevelopment
professionaldevelopment
selfawareness
uncertainty
Ignorance Isn't Bliss. It's a Leadership Liability.
Eight years ago today, I recorded the very first episode of the Growth Edge Leadership Podcast. At the time, I couldn't have imagined the conversations, friendships, learning, and opportunities that would come from simply pressing "record."
Over the past eight years, we've welcomed extraordin...
Jul 21, 2026
adaptability
coachability
feedback
growth
healthcareleadership
humility
leadershipblindspots
leadershipdevelopment
physicianleadership
selfawareness
The Leadership Blind Spot: How Insecurity Shapes Your Impact
Most leaders think of insecurity as a confidence problem.
In reality, insecurity is often far more subtle and far more consequential. It rarely appears as obvious self-doubt. Instead, it reveals itself through behaviors: the need to stay involved, the reluctance to delegate, the impulse to mo...
Jun 22, 2026
executiveleadership
growth
healthcareleadership
insecurity
leadership
leadershipdevelopment
leadershipgrowth
physicianleadership
selfawareness
strengthsbasedleadership
Why High Performers Plateau
One of the greatest risks facing successful leaders is not incompetence.
It's certainty.
The experience, expertise, and confidence that help leaders advance can also make continued growth more difficult.
Over time, success has a way of reinforcing our assumptions. We become more conf...
Jun 17, 2026
activelistening
certainty
coachability
competence
curiosity
executiveleadership
expertise
growth
humility
leadership
leadershipdevelopment
professionaldevelopment
selfawareness
Your Team Experiences Leadership Before They Experience Culture
Leadership can feel frustrating because so much sits outside your control.
You may not control staffing shortages, organizational priorities, reimbursement changes, budgets, or shifting market realities.
But leaders often underestimate something they do control:
The environment their...
May 27, 2026
clarity
coaching
culture
development
employeeengagement
feedback
growth
leadership
recognition
selfawareness
strengthsbasedleadership
trust
Where Self-Awareness Actually Comes From
Many leaders assume self-awareness develops naturally with experience.
It doesn’t.
As Stephen Covey famously observed, “Some people have twenty years of experience, while others have one year of experience repeated twenty times.”
Experience can reinforce patterns just as easily as ...
May 20, 2026
accountability
coachability
coaching
emotionalintelligence
feedback
growth
healthcareleadership
humility
leadership
leadershipdevelopment
mentorship
performance
promotability
reflection
selfawareness
sponsorship
strengthsbasedleadership
vulnerability
Self-Awareness is a Performance Variable
Most leaders invest heavily in skill development.
Far fewer invest in understanding the instrument delivering those skills.
That gap becomes more visible with every level of leadership.
You can be technically strong, decisive, and highly productive and still create friction in ways t...
May 13, 2026
decisionmaking
leadership
performance
promotability
selfawareness
trust
Aligned, Not Alike. The New Standard for High-Performing Teams.
There’s an invisible pressure many leaders carry:
I need to be good at everything.
Strategic. Relational. Operational. Visionary. Decisive. Empathetic.
Well-rounded.
But that standard is not just unrealistic. It is ineffective.
The most impactful leaders are not well-rounded.
They ...
May 06, 2026
adaptability
alignment
change
collaboration
diversity
leadership
performance
reflection
selfawareness
strengthsbasedleadership
teamwork
uncertainty
