Professional Identity Purgatory Has a Name Now
The in-between finally has a name. The naming is useful. What it misses is that this is a threshold, and your body reached its verdict long before you were willing to say it out loud.
Evolving Forward: Why Most People Come Out of Change Smaller, Not Bigger
Most people come out of change smaller than they went in. The uncertainty pressure makes them diminish their talents to cope.
Growth Is Cyclical: Why the Decisions That Formed You Will Return
The freedom we have was paid for by people who never met us. The way to honor it isn't to repeat their sacrifice. It's to use it forward.
Your Job Title Is a Borrowed Identity (And It's Going to Cost You)
Your job title is a borrowed identity. And like everything borrowed, it's eventually going to be returned, with consequences.
Career Transition Identity Crisis: Why High Performers Lose Themselves First
The people who struggle most with career transitions are the ones who were best at the job they're leaving.
Identity Dissolution in Career Transitions: Why High Performers Struggle Most With Change
The version of you who thrived in that environment no longer exists. And that's not a crisis. It's a crossing.
Career Transition Without Losing Yourself: A Field Guide for High Performers
You do not just change jobs. You lose the person your old job made you.
What Your AI Resistance Already Knows
Your reaction to AI isn't about technology. Relief, threat, guilt, excitement: your body is telling you something about your relationship to your work.
55% of CEOs Struggle. The Real Problem: No One to Tell.
A Fortune 500 CEO I coached scheduled our calls for 6 AM. It was the only hour when he wasn't performing. 55% of CEOs experienced mental health issues last year, and half report significant loneliness. The structure of leadership creates the struggle.
Why Fractional Work Is Risk Mitigation, Not Career Regression
The question came during a one-on-one with a VP of Engineering who'd spent 15 years at Google. "If I go fractional, doesn't that signal I couldn't make it work full-time?"
The Hidden Pattern in Career Transitions: Why High Performers Struggle Most
The client sitting across from me had built an extraordinary career. VP at a Fortune 500 tech company. Led teams through three successful acquisitions. And she was completely frozen trying to figure out what came next.
Why your Sunday dread matters
How to find (and solve) the real problem
