For years we have focused on helping leaders and teams discover the competitive advantage of using conflict. We are passionate about...

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Just Try to Force a Horse! I love working with horses! They are amazing mirrors to humans. I have shared various stories in the past...

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I am an actor, and one summer I was lucky enough to play Nina, in the Stumptown Player’s production of Looking held at the O’Shaughnessy...

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Look I’ll say it. I made a mistake. I should have picked up the phone and told you we had a serious problem, but I didn’t. Even as the...

The Pleaser I have known for long time that I tend to make choices based on what other people want or think versus what I want or think....

The focus of my consulting and coaching work at thrive! has been helping leaders of teams that are underperforming, stuck in conflict, or...

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When I was at a top consulting firm, I was leading a project at a famous software client. My consulting firm boss came in one day and...

“We don’t have enough long-term savings. We have to save more.” Cindy brought up the hot topic while driving home from their accountant’s...

When working with women clients one of the most frequent issues that comes up is boundaries and the lack thereof. As women, we seem more...

Do you avoid conflict? Walk on eggshells around certain people? Hesitate to rock-the-boat? Say yes, when you want to say no? Brace...

The Olympics in Rio have been capturing a great deal of our time and attention recently. So it seemed like the perfect reason to focus...

Flashback to many years ago….An Olympic Gold medalist, working at a top five business-consulting firm, I walked into the conference room...