Finding the Safety to Step Up To Your Full Potential

When I’m asked what I do, I often reply that I help people do the big work they need to do on the inside in order to accomplish big things or serve the world on the outside. Inner fears, doubts, or resistance, often carefully hidden or avoided, are usually at the root of what keeps…

Taking Stock of the Life You Live

When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened or full…

Guest Blog Post: Transforming the World Starts With Transforming Me

Mark Vandeneijnde is a graduate of the Transformational Presence Leadership and Coaching program and a very active member of the Transformational Presence community. As an experienced Market Researcher (previously 10 years with Proctor & Gamble) and ICF Certified Coach Mark specializes in helping businesses reconnect with the essence / the heart of their organization. Through…

Remembering September 11, 2001

It was a gorgeous late summer day in New York City. I had been out to walk my dog in Riverside Park and was settling in for a full day of voice teaching. Seems like a lifetime ago that teaching opera and Broadway singers in New York was my career. A few minutes after 9…

Transformational Leadership: Making the Extraordinary Ordinary

Lately I’ve been pondering what it is about how we show up that makes the most extraordinary transformational work possible. What keeps coming to me is that, while others may perceive what we do as breakthrough, extraordinary, or even miraculous, to those of us doing the work, it somehow needs to feel ordinary, normal –…