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We all benefit from healthy collaboration and conflict resolution. In this article, I discuss two of my favorite models for collaboration: trust and negotiation. A trust orientation is ideal for teamwork but is often fragile in a corporate business setting. I describe the reasons for this and advocate for a negotiation-first mindset carefully infused with trust whenever possible.

Everyone wants to belong. In a professional setting, that means bringing your full self to work and feeling accepted and supported. This is difficult to achieve in practice because of the tension between human needs and business needs, i.e. corporations are profit-maximizing while people are purpose-maximizing. In this article, I examine the role of empathy in corporate tech and discuss strategies for deploying it for positive impact while avoiding burnout.

Throughout the course of my personal and professional development journey, I’ve come across various assessment tools. I like them because they provide frameworks through which to build self-understanding and understanding of others, enhancing our teamwork and leadership skills. This article is an overview of the assessment tools that I've found most useful.

The four-frame model of organizations was developed by Profs. Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal. This model provides multiple lenses through which to understand the inner workings of modern organizations: structural, human resource, political, and symbolic. It is a powerful framework that enables leaders to make more effective, intentional choices.

Stoicism provides us with practical solutions for handling life’s ups and downs with ease. It does this by emphasizing that “it is not things that upset us, but our judgements about things”, as Epictetus put it. This puts our agency front and center. And encourages us to evaluate pleasures and setbacks in healthy ways that contribute to our experience of eudaimonia, or “the good life”. This article delves into Stoicism and its empowering perspectives.

This article describes the source and function of anxiety in everyday life as well as short- and long-term strategies for addressing unhelpful forms of anxiety. Some methods are coping mechanisms, some are based on habit-forming and mindset change, and others focus on healing underlying traumas and revamping one’s self-concept. I hope these ideas empower you!

I am the head organizer for a Meetup group called Highly Sensitive Persons – Greater Boston and have been leading it together with other co-organizers since April 2017. It is an affinity group that enables HSPs to explore questions they have about themselves and the world in a psychologically safe space. In this article, I’ll describe what HSP is, how I got involved in the Meetup group, and my biggest take-aways from being a leader in this community. Hope you enjoy the read!

This article explores the power dynamics within a corporate hierarchy and offers suggestions for aspiring leaders. It takes a very pragmatic view and was inspired by books (cited throughout), conversations with current and former corporate employees across industries and the working age range, and my own development as a leader.