Here is the article .Too many people become managers without fully choosing this new career path and too many companies use this promotion tool as the only reward mechanism for gifted and high performing individual contributors. These 2 unfortunate realities result too often in unnecessary stress, loss of performance and sometimes permanent demotivation for both managers and their employees. It would be …

In October 2017 I became an ICF PCC coach. PCC stands for Professional Certified Coach. This certification is awarded to coaches who have earned 750 coaching hours. I am so grateful for all my individual and group coaching clients for their trust that allowed me to earn these 750 coaching hours over the last 3 and 1/2 …

I have spent 26 years in the High Tech industry, first as a developer of embedded software before running a small R&D lab when I was 28 years old. When the french startup I was working for was purchased by Phillips 2 years later, I had realized that I needed more people interaction in my work-life …

This article was prompted by a recent coaching session with one of my clients, a high performance leader, quite self-aware and focused on self-excellence. She had just completed a successful business review with her VP and was sharing the learning and many benefits she reaped from approaching it, not as a single event she had …

A couple years ago, I made a significant change in my professional life, a change that I had been dreaming of for more than a decade. I have never felt happier nor more fulfilled and I am grateful every day for my new career and life. It is deeply ironic, however, that I owe my new life to having gone through a scary, completely unforeseen, cancer experience. My …

This article was first published in the ICF magazine Coaching World, May Edition. Given his success, it was republished on the ICF blog in September and was also featured in the Leadership section of the Library of Professional Coaching website. I really enjoyed writing this Case Study based on a leadership workshop I facilitated in Russia. It was a …

When I left the Corporate World to become a Leadership Coach, I had not anticipated that I would have to reinvent my personal definition of productivity and my relationship to time. I enjoyed sharing this personal journey with the readers of ICF magazine, Coaching World, November Edition. Being amongst top read article, it got  also republished on the ICF Blog. Click here …

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood, now is the time to understand more, so that we fear less.” I love this quote from Marie Curie, a recognized scientist, first woman to win a Nobel Prize, a pioneer in nuclear physics and a remarkable woman. Since stumbling on it, …

Work-life Balance continues to be a top leadership issue. It is arguably the most common challenge shared across high level executives, mid-level managers, small business owners and Individual Contributors. According to a recent study by the advisory firm The Corporate Executive Board Company, work-life balance is the second most important attribute in the workplace, just …

When I entered the work‐force in the 80’s, we used to talk about Work‐Life Balance or WLB. And it was about how to best balance between our time at work and our time at home because in those days, we had to be in the office to actually work.  But technology, connectivity and the associated productivity …