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Perspectives on Leadership and Life

Honest writing on what it means to lead well — the clarity, the self-doubt, the energy, and the quiet strength that makes it all possible.


You can expand your impact without expanding your exhaustion

You can expand your impact without expanding your exhaustionby: Johanna Urquhart

Leadership coach Johanna Urquhart on why lasting leadership needs three things: the strategy to do the job, the identity to hold it, and the vitality to sustain it.

LeadershipConfidence and Self-Doubt
You can expand your impact without expanding your exhaustion

Don't outsource the part that makes you a leader

 Don't outsource the part that makes you a leaderby: Johanna Urquhart

Johanna Urquhart explores what happens when leaders start outsourcing their thinking to AI, and why real leadership mastery still rests on three things AI can never replace: strategy, identity and capacity.

Leadership
 Don't outsource the part that makes you a leader

The Compassion We Save for Everyone ElseNew Blog Post

The Compassion We Save for Everyone ElseNew Blog Postby: Johanna Urquhart

Johanna Urquhart on why capable women in leadership give endless compassion to everyone around them, and almost none to themselves, and what changes when that stops.

Health & WellbeingLeadership
The Compassion We Save for Everyone ElseNew Blog Post

Why the year can begin twice

Why the year can begin twiceby: Johanna Urquhart

Leadership coach Johanna Urquhart explains why late summer offers leaders a second, honest starting point in the year, and how to make good use of it.

Health & WellbeingLeadership
Why the year can begin twice

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