We are all self-leaders. Self-leadership is your ability to masterfully lead yourself. It means knowing who you are, being self-aware, and recognizing the impact of your behaviours. Leading self is knowing your strengths, uncovering blind spots, and challenging your assumptions and biases. It is accessing your courage to work through your inner critics and self-limiting beliefs. Self-leadership is believing in your whole self, and when you make mistakes, you reflect to learn and grow from them. Self-leadership isn’t about going through life alone--it is about creating trusting, open and vulnerable partnership(s) to help you move forward. Leading self is making choices in self-care, emotionally, physically, and spiritually, that support your best self. Your values, purpose, and vision guide you; you take ownership and responsibility for your whole self. As a leader of self, you embrace curiosity, self-reflection, and lifelong learning to create your continuous evolution.

We all lead other people. Leading others is helping them recognize and unlock their infinite potential. It requires creating a safe, open, authentic space to communicate, reflect, inquire, listen, and challenge thinking, where you are both the teacher and the student. Leading others encourages them (and you) to access their intuition and emotions and use them as data to create more understanding and inform the next steps. Leading others is recognizing their strengths, believing in them, holding their whole self sacred--and empowering them to do the same. This is where you mentor, positively influence and foster lifelong learning.

We are infinite in our possibilities, learning, and growth, which ebb and flow into our understanding of self and of others. Our work as leaders is to continue the journey of learning and utilizing your and their potential to reveal and elicit our evolving true selves.