Latisha Gaither, MBA, CPCC

Leadership capability is built through intentional journeys, not one-off interventions. Shifting Gears™ – Core strengthens self-awareness and essential leadership competencies, translating learning into measurable workplace impact. It prepares managers to lead with clarity, confidence, and alignment—today and for the future. Start the conversation: https://lnkd.in/gFZNaUtz Alok Narain Perineeta Malhotra Ritu Saxena Swati Menon Geeta Khattar Divyakshi Gupta Konark Chugh Priya Saini Avneet Kaur Tarandeep Kaur Tanya Sharma #ShiftingGears #LeadershipDevelopment #FutureReadyLeaders #ManagerEffectiveness #TeamEmergence

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How Leaders Can Practice Wise Empathy The authors suggest leaders take these five steps designed to guide them in the practice of wise empathy to strengthen relationships, improve engagement and retention, and support others without losing their own footing. Click here to read the full article: https://lnkd.in/dUiKUkSP

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Most people think leadership is just the next step after developing technical mastery.  But the leap is bigger than that. Technical roles reward precision, analysis, and answers.  Leadership calls for creativity, ambiguity, and imagination. The gap between the two can stall even the smartest managers.  Here’s how to close it → https://lnkd.in/gSuViaBr 

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📘 CORE Leadership: A Four-Step Framework to Lead Yourself, Grow Your Influence, and Amplify Your Impact Author: Miki (Michal) Feldman Simon Founder IamBackatWork Category: Career Advancement & Professional Development   You’re smart, driven, and ready to grow—but something’s missing.   What’s holding you back?   You’ve worked hard to get where you are, and it’s paid off.   But you’re constantly juggling priorities, navigating change, and striving to be a better leader, partner, parent, or teammate.   What if the answer isn’t working harder, but leading yourself more intentionally?   The missing piece for many leaders is a clear approach to leading themselves.   In CORE Leadership, executive coach Miki Feldman Simon introduces a simple, practical, and immediately actionable framework to help you shift from autopilot to intention:   Clarify, Operationalize, Reflect, and Evaluate (CORE).   Drawing from coaching insights, behavioral science, and real-world leadership challenges, Miki gives you the tools to feel more purposeful and less reactive. More grounded and less stretched.   This is not a book about managing others.   It’s a book about managing the one person you take with you everywhere: yourself.   In CORE Leadership, you’ll learn:   ✅ Tools to quiet your inner critic and align your actions with your values ✅ How to build habits that support the impact you want to make without losing yourself in the process ✅ Stories, tools, and practices that will challenge you, support you, and help you become the leader—and human—you want to be   Whether you're near the top of the ladder or still have a way to climb, the CORE framework will meet you where you are.   If you’re ready to grow your influence, amplify your impact, and lead with greater clarity and confidence, CORE Leadership is your roadmap.     📚📔📕📙📓📒📗📘 Lance Scoular 🔹️ The Savvy Navigator 🧭🌐 #amazoninfluencer #book #ad #amazonbooks #fromtheauthorsmouth #CORE #Leadership #FourStep #Framework #Lead #Yourself #Grow #Your #Influence #Amplify #Impact   https://lnkd.in/gz3_z8VS

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"If" you are interested in coaching in the health care sector, tomorrow's overview of a new Healthcare Coach certification program through Hudson Institute may be for you. Healthcare is one of the most gratifying but demanding work sectors of our world. Without doubt, whether we actively use health care services/or will use those services-we all benefit from knowing that we can access those services if/when needed. And, we need to know that those services will meet our needs and be excellent enough to heal and take care of us. But who is helping our healers? Who is holding the space for them? Who cares enough to assist excellence --that is Everyone's goal. No one goes into healthcare to be become "wealthy" in the traditional sense of currency. Sure, "they" can do well-but the real currency of value is saving lives. Healing lives and repairing what is broken in body or mind or both. This coach certification program is so needed. So valuable. If you are curious-come join the conversation with Michael Hudson, Heather Brace (CPO-Intermountain Health) and Andy Ortiz ( SVP-Cedars-Sinai) leaders in Health Care. This is sure to be meaningful and exciting! Sign up for the info session: https://lnkd.in/gejpH3R3 Learn more about CIHC: https://lnkd.in/g_NHaskC #hudsoninstituteofcoaching #MichaelHudson #KeithNaber

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🔁 Boundless Conversations. Timeless Wisdom. Leaders in Conversation 8 revisted: Multi-Dimensional Leadership - Leading Diverse Teams in Complex Contexts ☐ Context Leadership today demands more than technical know-how—it calls for emotional intelligence, adaptive thinking, and deep self-awareness. In this episode of Leaders in Conversation, Michele Kruse (CRP) Kruse, founder of Bluestreak Performance, joins Crispin Swart to explore what it means to be a multi-dimensional leader. With her global experience, Michele brings powerful insight into how leaders can navigate diversity, complexity, and generational dynamics in the workplace. ✦ Threads of Wisdom "People don’t trust you because you ask them to. You demonstrate trust to earn trust." "If I’m walking the talk, I become more credible." "It’s okay to say: ‘Help me.’" "When you already have all the answers, you don’t need the team—and the team doesn’t need you." "Leadership requires agility and ongoing learning. Stay focused on the big picture." ∞ Reflection Michele challenges leaders to question the stories they tell themselves—and whether those stories are even true. She invites us to move beyond labels like ‘diversity’ and instead focus on psychological safety, role clarity, and shared purpose. This is the shift from managing difference to cultivating connection. ⇢ In Practice Ask yourself: “What story am I telling myself—and is it true?” Demonstrate credibility using the four cores: Integrity, Intent, Capability, and Results (Covey). Create psychological safety through transparency and trust. Clarify roles and purpose to shift attention from difference to shared direction. Adapt your leadership style while keeping the big picture in mind. Use these three questions to unlock meaningful conversations: What should I have asked you? What don’t I know? Is there something I could have told you that would make this better for you? ❍ Invitation What does being a multi-dimensional leader mean to you? How is your leadership being experienced? What will the future demand of your leadership? Links to the recording and summary are available in the comments below. #BoundlessWisdom #LeadersInConversation #MultiDimensionalLeadership #WisdomInPractice #PsychologicalSafety #LeadershipDevelopment #DiverseTeams #TrustAndTransparency #CredibleLeadership

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In the age of information overload, author Jocelyn Davis calls for values-driven leadership that creates focus and dedication. She offers a blueprint for professionals, community organizers, and anyone who wants to build intentional outcomes without resorting to excessive pressure or force. Discover 5 key takeaways here: https://t.ly/cv9BN #eauclairepartners #goodreads #growthmindset #leadershipskills #makeanimpact

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If your team can’t act without your approval, Follow us on Instagram for more leadership wisdom: https://lnkd.in/eeARZ-fN Credit to: Nico Torres, MBA Original post below: ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ If your team can’t act without your approval, you’re not leading, you’re controlling. It starts quietly: “I’ll review every decision first.” “They might make mistakes if I’m not involved.” “I just want things done my way.” “Trust takes time, I’ll loosen control later.” But the truth: → Constant approval kills initiative → Micromanagement creates dependency → Teams can’t grow under constant supervision → Leadership isn’t about control, it’s about trust The grip you hold today, becomes the bottleneck you fight tomorrow. What real leadership requires: ✓ Clear vision your team can act on without you ✓ Trust built through autonomy and accountability ✓ Space for mistakes that become lessons ✓ Systems that empower decision-making ✓ Confidence in your people, not just your process Leadership isn’t about saying “yes” or “no.” It’s about creating leaders who no longer need to ask. Start asking: Am I building followers, or future leaders? ____________ DM us to be featured on our next post Pull up a chair, the best conversations happen here. The Leader’s Table  

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Earlier this week, a prospective student reached out via email about our ICF Level 1 program Foundations in Holistic Leadership Coaching. She had two questions. I answered them. No Zoom call. No sales funnel. No pressure. No urgency. Four emails and 48 hours later, she made a high-ticket, paid-in-full investment. That’s not a sales story. That’s a leadership story. I know this personally as I was trained in coercive high ticket sales. I know how to force and it is not aligned with my way of doing life and business. Most coaches and executives assume they need better closing skills. They don’t. They need stronger leadership presence. Because in 2026, people are not responding to pressure.🚩 They are responding to safety. Communities are skeptical for good reason. They’ve been oversold, overpromised, and emotionally handled. Bullied into Buying. Manipulated into Moving. So when someone encounters: 1️⃣Clear answers. 2️⃣Transparent standards. 3️⃣Calm authority. 4️⃣No manipulation. Their nervous system settles. And settled nervous systems make aligned decisions. Ethical leadership shortens sales cycles. Psychological safety increases conversion. Clarity outperforms coercion ANYDAY. If your revenue feels inconsistent, it may not be your marketing. It may be the way power is being held in your conversations. Sales is downstream from leadership. And leadership is downstream from regulation and attunement. That’s the skillsets we train.

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Many organizations are investing in becoming skills-based, but few are seeing the results they hoped for. Too often, these efforts fall short because they don’t put people at the center. In their new article, “Skills-Based Organizations Aren’t Reaching Their Potential. Here’s How They Can Succeed,” BCG experts share why these efforts often fail to deliver and how to fix them. They outline four people-centric strategies to build truly adaptive, skills-based organizations: ✅ Focus on value, not scale ✅ Anchor skills in the business, not just HR ✅ Use tech as a tool, not the starting point ✅ Connect skills to culture and the people agenda A must-read for leaders reimagining how their organizations work, learn, and grow. Congratulations to the authors: Dr. Sebastian Ullrich, Jens Stefan Baier, Vinciane Beauchene, Suketu Shah, and Fabio Tank. 📖 Read it here: https://lnkd.in/efsDHDPw

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Most leaders want to receive honest, useful #feedback. But organizations often default to teaching people how to deliver feedback instead of equipping them to make it safe and inviting for others to give it. Jeff Wetzler shares practical ways leaders can build an 'Ask-First' feedback culture where people routinely seek input early and often, accelerating learning, trust, and performance. https://lnkd.in/egweRypA #Leadership

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Leading Psychological Safety: From Research to Action Structured using the transformational leadership theory of thought leader Otto Scharmer, this presentation discusses the skill development of leading self (Me), leading self in teams (We), and we unpack the tools required to build a container of psychological safety in groups and create meaningful collaboration with an organization and its stakeholders (the Us!). From the lens of an HR and safety practitioner, Jay Lamont will share key insights from his graduate research leadership project: Change Leadership to Advance Psychological Safety (as featured in HR Saskatchewan Fall/Winter 2022) at the 2026 Saskatchewan Safety Seminar (February 3-5, 2026). He will pull from these evidence-based findings to share key elements that create a container of psychological safety in the contemporary workplace, such as idyllic leadership and followership behaviours to advance culture. Jay has been consulting within the health and safety industry for the past 25 years and he loves the field of workplace health almost as much as he loves his new grandson! In addition to an undergraduate degree in health studies from the University of Regina, he recently completed a Master’s of Arts in Leadership from Royal Roads University. Jay also holds an Advanced Certificate in Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. A Certified Instructor Road to Mental Readiness™ for First Responders, Mental Health First Aid™, The Working Mind™, and Integrated Psychological Health and Safety™, Jay has formed a focus the past 15 years of his career consulting to employers on the development of programs, initiatives, and supportive frameworks in leadership, psychological safety and mental health in the workplace. https://lnkd.in/eXZ545k

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Most coaching models are great… until you try to use them in the real world. I found that so many leaders were following frameworks that looked good on paper, but didn’t actually help them cut through noise, get honest, and move forward. So I built 'CHAT'... a simple coaching approach designed for real conversations, not textbooks. ✅ CHALLENGE – Get to the real problem, not the noisy one. ✅ HONESTY – Face the internal and external blockers that hold everything up. ✅ ANGLE – Reframe and explore new perspectives. ✅ TRACTION – Turn insight into action you can actually measure. It’s practical, it’s fast, and it creates momentum. I use it every day with clients because it delivers what most leaders need... clarity, insight, and movement. If you’d like the breakdown, or want to try it with your team, happy to chat. (Yes… I know. I Couldn’t resist. 😄) #Coaching #Leadership #CoachingTools #TheCoachApproach #Growth #CHATcoaching

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