by Susan Eick | May 27, 2020 | Leadership Development, Opinions
“Muster the courage to stir things up, and be stirred up, in the service of learning. Inspirational tales, theories, and tools alone don’t develop leaders. They protect them from the unsettling experience of leading.”–Gianpiero Petriglieri, MD In my first...
by Susan Eick | May 27, 2020 | Opinions, Psychological Safety
Susan Eick thought she knew just about everything that she needed to be a successful CEO. However, even after working for more than 25 years in Corporate America and Canada, she found out that she was wrong. It wasn’t until she learned how to be real with her team,...
by Susan Eick | Apr 9, 2020 | Opinions
Events of the past few weeks have humbled me. What I thought I was prepared for as a leader—what I trained for, what I learned doing my MBA—was pretty much thrown out the window. Even things that I learned and held close as my personal foundations of leadership,...
by Susan Eick | Jan 29, 2020 | Opinions
This video that I recorded to support my upcoming blog about executive burnout was filmed one day before I got hit by a truck. What’s ironic about that, you ask? Let me take you back to earlier this year—the end of June 2019. I was on a call with my coach,...
by Susan Eick | Nov 7, 2019 | Opinions
I was not even at the half-way point of one of the worst years of my life. Already, I had lost my job, had to move my family back to Colorado, attempt, then fail, then attempt again to find a job, get pregnant, then lose the pregnancy, try to maintain a state of...
by Susan Eick | May 1, 2019 | Opinions, Uncategorized
Losing my job after moving my young family to another state was hard. Not having another job prospect once I returned home was harder. Finding out I was pregnant with my third child was beyond ridiculous on the stress meter. It wasn’t like I had planned this. No,...
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