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What’s Your Search Strategy? As Director of Service Delivery for The Bailey Group, I am responsible for ensuring that we have the best possible coaches and consultants who will exceed our customers' and clients' expectations. I am happy to report that our team is...

Elevating Equality: Accelerating Forward Momentum on Women’s Equality Day and Beyond August is one of my favorite months of the year. The warmth of summer lingers, and the allure of autumn is in the air. We’re not only rounding out my favorite season (can anything...

Jon Meacham’s recent biography of Abraham Lincoln - And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle – was a reminder of two important leadership truths: 1. Leadership often requires being disliked and unconcerned about other people’s judgments. 2. It...

What did you feel when you read this title? If you are like most of us, it brought up feelings. And likely not the pleasant kind… Well, I’ve been giving feedback to clients for the entire 35 years that I’ve been a coach. Often, it’s positive. I get to point out...

Getting it wrong when we want to do what’s right At The Bailey Group, we help leaders navigate intense and complex worlds of work. Our executive coaches support leaders with creating and accessing new mindsets and tools that create shifts within their careers and...

In 2010, I took one of the biggest leaps of my career.  After working at a Philadelphia-based global organization for ten years, I accepted a larger leadership role in the organization that required us to move as a family from Pennsylvania to Minnesota.  As part of...

Self-management is perhaps the most important competency that effective leaders share. But what exactly is self-management? And how can you attain it? Self-management begins with self-awareness. Awareness means knowing and being present with. Individuals with...

Children are naturally curious.  Spend a few minutes with any toddler and you will likely get many more questions than answers.  “What is that?” “How does that work?” “When can we go?” The list goes on and on.  In fact, research has shown that children ask an average...

The words from Shakespeare’s Hamlet ring true in many circumstances but none more so than for the authentic leader. Have you asked yourself who you are deep inside and what drives you? How you feel internally, and how you present yourself externally needs to match up...

Grit. People who work hard, stick with things despite the odds...they’re said to have “grit”.I used to think having grit was all good.But grit is also the thing you really don’t want to get in your eyes. It’s the material that can be used to wear things away. If you...