Henley Leadership Group Blog

"Leadership requires attention to depth, to feelings, to inner struggles. A leader must wrestle with inward issues. They are expected to have great aspirations, confront great frustrations, achieve great self-control, suffer great betrayals, and manifest great compassion.” — Peter Koestenbaum

Failure is at least a little uncomfortable for all of us, and that’s because it brings up feelings that we typically try to avoid in life.

It’s not your daddy’s Oldsmobile. To say that times have changed would be a gross understatement. Some would argue that things have not changed for the better. Nonetheless, the seismic shift we have seen over these past 24 months in the way work gets done, where, and by whom is breathtaking.

In April of 2020, I was terribly worried about what was happening to women leaders in the workplace.