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The Leader Who Feels Everything Leadership

The Leader Who Feels Everything

Despite being taught that leaders are primarily logical, strategic, and persuasive, powerful people feel more deeply than they ever admit. To teams. To investors. To their families. To themselves. By December, when the holiday season arises in the midst of the end of the year stresses, the emotional backlog begins to surface: the unspoken disappointments, small betrayals, quiet victories, and…
Dorothy
December 14, 2025
fairytale identity
The Identity No One Sees Leadership

The Identity No One Sees

The cost of hiding behind competence. Power can be the most elegant disguise for loneliness. So many I have spoken to, surrounded by many admirers as well as family, are so immensely lonely, yet don’t always allow themselves to see that. “This is life.” “Life isn’t a fairytale.” No matter how we need to phrase it or understand it, loneliness…
Dorothy
November 9, 2025
the currency of energy
The Currency of Energy Leadership

The Currency of Energy

Power isn’t time or money — it’s energetic coherence. When we begin our careers, our businesses, or even our lives as young adults, planning a future with so much enthusiasm and dreams plus a wonderous sense of adventure we have little awareness that we are also envisioning what type of leader we will become. Leaders in our homes and in…
Dorothy
November 2, 2025
A leader facing burnout
Discovering the Leader Within Leadership

Discovering the Leader Within

In ancient times, even to a few hundred years ago, it was an accepted practice to have a rite of passage at the point of adolescence. Calling boys and girls, into adulthood, into their leadership. Sadly, in most places, that practice has been lost.  Sadly, because preparation for true success begins with personal transformation – the spiritual awakening – that…
Dorothy
September 26, 2025
Woman leader getting sick
The Health of the Leader Becomes the Health of the Culture Leadership

The Health of the Leader Becomes the Health of the Culture

Your nervous system sets the room’s metronome. The team always takes its lead from the leader. A regulated, purpose-anchored leader fosters psychological safety, better immune health (less sick-day churn), and steadier execution. A chronically stressed leader spreads urgency, illusions of control, reactivity, and errors - then wonders why “no one else can think.” The dynamics of the team usually then…
Dorothy
September 19, 2025
fall play reset
The Play Dividend — A Two-Week Experiment As Fall Begins Leadership

The Play Dividend — A Two-Week Experiment As Fall Begins

If summer is the exhale, these next two weeks are your chance to remember how to breathe. Truth for high performers:  Have you discovered that you didn’t lose your edge—you lost your awe. It is so easy for busyness to become the brand, while joy gets outsourced to “later. However, play isn’t a perk. It’s the reset that restores judgment,…
Dorothy
September 16, 2025
Three Stoplights
Purpose Is an Energy Strategy Leadership

Purpose Is an Energy Strategy

Burnout isn’t a time problem. It’s a meaning problem. If we can remember when we were in our teens, and energy was an unlimited resource, we lived in a world where everything was of immense importance. It took little effort to get psyched about a party, a group of friends going out together, etc. Our greatest purpose was showing up…
Dorothy
September 12, 2025
3 sets of hands from 3 generations
Leading from the Inside Out: Integrity, Purpose, and the Heart of True Leadership Leadership

Leading from the Inside Out: Integrity, Purpose, and the Heart of True Leadership

I just spent 3 days in San Diego, at a transformative conference. Not only was it a dramatic call for a business mindset shift, but it also addressed moving from making a great income to viewing success as a means of generational wealth while having far greater impact in making this world a better place.  We have all seen or…
Dorothy
June 29, 2025
man getting some rest while relaxing on a hammock reading a book on a sunny summer afternoon
Permission To Step Away: Why Rest Fuels Your Wealth & Well-Being Leadership

Permission To Step Away: Why Rest Fuels Your Wealth & Well-Being

Having just come back from a much-needed break on Martha’s Vineyard, I am reminded that there’s a myth in leadership that rest is weakness and/or dangerous. That if you’re not working, you’re falling behind. For many of us, there is the fear of chaos or potential loss if we step away. But what if stepping away on a vacation is…
Dorothy
June 19, 2025