Leadership requires building emotional intelligence - a set of skills that can be learned by becoming students of ourselves.

I loved watching the 2021 inaugural Olympic Surfing competition, and I was curious about the leadership metaphors that sprang to my mind as the surfers paddled out. Here are a few parallels I found interesting.

For much of our early careers, my generation was taught to “armor-up” and be invulnerable - invulnerable to lack of sleep, to workloads, to foregoing personal time, and to revealing too much about our personal lives.

More recently, vulnerability and empathy have become the latest buzzwords of leadership posts. What does leadership vulnerability mean and how does it feel?

What's your advice for people making a shift right now — whether it’s landing a new job or making a career pivot? What's the best advice you've received when it comes to making a job move?