Author Archives: jchmcpherson

If you knew how to level up, you’d already be doing it. Here is why CEOs, leaders and venture founders need a coach. Remember the 80/20 rule? The Pareto Principle says that 80% of results come from focusing on the top 20% of priorities. The research is in here ▶ “Leaders Clarify Priorities and KeepContinue reading “Closing the Gap”

Sharing your success is a key to getting ahead. When you are successful in some way – large or small – speak up! It does no good to sit on your light. If you are shining, why not? I am shining. It took my 42 years to decide I’m really ready to let it rip.Continue reading “If you don’t tell them, how will they know you?”

Do you remember when you first adopted a view of what success looks like? Whose version of success are you performing? My dad told me when I was flailing at some point in my teens (and many times after that), “develop your own measurement of success.” That was good advice. Success may be a feeling,Continue reading “Success on Your Own Terms”

“Startups are the point in your life when tricks stop working.” Q: Why is this concept so appealing? Are you as obsessed as I am with finding out what happens after things stop working? At a certain point, we will all wonder what else there is. 🔥 that’s when the big ideas come🔥 that’s whatContinue reading “Jump and Grow Wings on the Way”

Buddhist contemplation for the day: What happens when you let go? Letting go can mean a lot of things. No matter what kind of situation we’re talking about that has us all caught up, the conversation is the same. You’re feeling lower than you want, you lost your focus, you are trying to recover. SoContinue reading “On Letting Go”

I wish I could repost this a hundred times. It doesn’t matter if you have a coach if you aren’t working on the ways you show up with the core people in your life – your family, you partner, kids, whoever is in it with you. One of the most powerful things about working withContinue reading “Start from the Center”

Want to talk about growing your vision? Growing your capacity to get to the next level? None of us operate alone, although most of us grew up valuing the skill of working independently. The “independent worker” mentality, however, can lend to being impermeable to influence and avoidant of interdependency. The game is the same –Continue reading “Unlocking the puzzle – Growth Mindset”

“Because it’s already been done.” “Because this isn’t the right time.” “Because I am not ready.” I remember the first school I founded began with an idea. I told my friend, Beverly Kievman Copen while sitting on her patio that I wanted to see a school exist in this community. I wanted to offer aContinue reading “Start before you’re ready”

This is me on stage performing a Shakespeare monologue. It seems like my acting career was 100 years ago. I’ve been acting or teaching acting since age 13 basically without stopping. At age 42, doing anything for nearly 30 years other than eating and sleeping seems unlikely. And yet, according to my calculations I’ve taughtContinue reading “To the people in the back”

Emelia Oware, a client, is a true pioneer developing a progressive school in Accra, Ghana. Her program focus is to “develop individual’s capabilities… to move away from the status quo whilst building resilience to be changemakers and/or problem solvers. This is what Africa needs to transform our world.” Today we walked through getting the rightContinue reading “Transforming Lives”