How can assertiveness work in a completely different cultural setting? Read about my training in Shanghai, where I faced language barriers and different customs. Discover how I overcame initial uncertainties and found that, despite our differences, there’s much more that connects us than meets the eye.

What’s coaching? Often, this short question gets a long answer. Sometimes it feels like it’s everything and nothing.
“Is this helpful for you?” I ask my client. This response might be the one I get most often… 😊

We all have a dream. Mine has been scuba diving since I was a little girl. About 20 years ago, I revisited that dream. I got my license and started diving in seas and oceans around the world. And it was beyond anything I could have imagined. Until..

Do we really have to choose between power and kindness? What if we could have both? Some call this assertiveness. Some call it radical candor. I come across this wish in my work very often.
I call this “the place where the magic happens

Last year, we got an interesting inquiry in a production plant.
The task was to teach empathy to the shop floor staff.
We tested numerous ideas, and then it hit us, and we knew what to do. It was quite risky. Did it work?
And why empathy in the first place?