Each gender faces its own uphill battle when rising into leadership positions. Women in particular have been facing up to a significant plight. Over the past five years, I have focused a part of my practice on group coaching for executive women. Through this work, two themes have surfaced…

Goals, commitments, resolutions… we set them, we intend to achieve them — and for many of us, some of our best set plans to follow through get consciously or unconsciously derailed. What is at the root of our lack of follow through? How do we close the gap between our intentions and our goals?

When considering success at work or in life, Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is proven to be equal to (if not more important than) IQ. Yet, EQ can evade even some of the smartest and most “successful” leaders because mastery is challenging to consistently achieve. To do so, we must cultivate a nimble, present, ninja mind.

Lies… Studies show that men and women lie about 30 percent of the time in any given week, and up to one fifth of our social interactions are moderately to severely deceitful. Lying is proven to cause…