What stories do you tell yourself—and what narratives does your organization adhere to? In 2016, I completed a self-authoring suite to better understand my past, present, and future. The process made me confront and reframe limiting narratives. Organizations, much like individuals, face similar challenges when recovering from crises. Drawing on my journey and case studies from Volkswagen, Nike, and Aramex, this article explores how to change the narrative.

“Know thyself” is attributed to various Greek philosophers and poets, including to Socrates, the Phemonoe, or Chilon and Thales. Role analysis helps you accelerate this process. You ask yourself which roles you held at age 6, 16, 26, 36 and so on to identify patterns.

In early 2020, I started a fashion brand. I called it “Club Lucienne” in homage to my late grandmother, Lucienne Léonie Heintz. My vision consisted of bringing slow fashion back and combining French chic and Vietnamese craftsmanship. This article focuses on the related costs.

As part of their research on the psychological reasons of employees’ resistance to change, Harvard professors Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey define “competing commitments” as psychological forces undermining an individual’s efforts to achieve an objective.

My new marketing performance consultant and I had a conversation last week. We both agreed: We have more than one professional identity. Yet, we don’t know how to consolidate these online. How to best achieve this?

An individual who suffers from impostor syndrome is not able to acknowledge his / her hard work and aptitude for a task. Luckily, there are self-coaching tools to overcome this phenomenon.