Press & Publications: Practical Resources for Executives

I publish and contribute thought leadership on executive self-awareness, leadership confidence, decision quality under pressure, and the evolving portfolio career—especially as AI reshapes how we work and lead. Below are a curated selection of published pieces and a short external reading list I regularly return to (and often recommend to clients).

Updated periodically. Curated for time-starved leaders.

Featured Publications (Forbes Coaches Council)

Feedback Is the Backbone of Executive Self-Awareness

(Oct 31, 2024)

While data drives many business decisions, one crucial factor—executive self-awareness—is often overlooked. This piece explains why feedback is the backbone of growth and what kind of feedback to ask for.

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Making AI Work for Your Portfolio Career

(Sep 18, 2023)

GenAI is reshaping the economy, and more executives are building portfolio careers for passion, financial resilience, or future planning. This piece explores how leaders can use AI strategically while building optionality, networks, and meaningful work.

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Recommended External Reading List (for Senior Leaders)

A short list of sources and books I trust. I’m not affiliated with these publications; links are provided for your convenience.

Executive Self-Awareness & Feedback

What Self-Awareness Really Is (and How to Cultivate It) (HBR) — A practical definition + how leaders build it.

4 Sure-Fire Ways to Boost Your Self-Awareness (CCL) — Research-backed ways to strengthen internal and external self-awareness.

How Leaders Can Get the Feedback They Need to Grow (HBR) — How to invite feedback that improves your leadership fast.

How to Ask for the Feedback You Really Need (HBR) — Better questions → higher-quality feedback.

The “Inside Out” Leadership Journey: How Personal Growth Creates the Path to Success (McKinsey) — Why inner work (self-awareness) changes outer impact.

Decision Quality & Executive Judgment

The Elements of Good Judgment (Harvard Business Review) — A practical model for building executive judgment.

Untangling Your Organization’s Decision Making (McKinsey) — How to improve decision speed and quality via decision architecture.

Building a Company of Decision-Makers (WSJ, Deloitte) — What organizational conditions produce consistently better decisions.

Decision Fatigue: 6 Ways to Deal With It (Korn Ferry) — Protecting judgment under high decision load.

Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works (HBR; A.G. Lafley & Roger Martin) — Strategy as a cascade of choices.

Portfolio Careers & the Future of Work

Why You Should Build a “Career Portfolio” (Not a “Career Path”)(HBR) — A portfolio mindset for modern careers.

Stop Offering Career Ladders. Start Offering Career Portfolios. (HBR) — How organizations can support portfolio-shaped careers.

The Key Role of Dynamic Talent Allocation in Shaping the Future of Work (McKinsey) — Flow-to-work models that increase agility.

Activating the internal talent marketplace (Deloitte) — How to design and scale opportunity marketplaces.

What CHROs Need to Know About Internal Talent Marketplaces Today (Gartner) — Practical guidance for internal marketplaces.

Leadership Confidence, Presence, and Influence

How CEOs Build Confidence in Their Leadership (HBR) — Confidence as a credibility-building process, not a personality trait.

The New Rules of Executive Presence (HBR) — A modern playbook for presence that reflects today’s expectations.

Ask the Expert: Challenging Conversations (CCL) — Turning tension into clarity and collaboration.

Power vs. Presence (Korn Ferry) — Why presence and how leaders engage matter more than proximity.

Invisible Influence (Korn Ferry Institute) — Creating impact without formal authority.

Books I Often Recommend

Noise (Kahneman, Sibony, Sunstein)

Thinking in Bets (Annie Duke)

Thinking in Systems (Donella Meadows)

The Practice of Adaptive Leadership (Heifetz, Grashow, Linsky)

Conversational Intelligence (Judith A. Glaser)

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