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What I’m Changing about my Practice as a Leader
Leadership is complex, but not for the reasons we usually give. It’s not complex because people are difficult.It’s not complex because the work is unknowable.It’s not even complex because the future is uncertain. It’s complex because, as humans, we are carrying multiple systems at the same time and pretending they’re one. We collapse them into…
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The Space Between Knowing and Doing
In every team, every family, every country… a silence shows up…one that lives right in that narrow passage between what people say they understand and what they actually do. It’s a strange little corridor. You can’t always see it, but you can feel the drag of it. Plans begin with clarity, but the execution lags…
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What Have You Got to Lose?
I got The Book of Alchemy for Christmas by Suleika Jaouad. It’s not a journal in the trendy, habit-stacking sense. It’s quieter than that. More deliberate…built around the idea of writing not as output, but as a way of staying in relationship with yourself when certainty thins out…when confidence feels unearned…when you’re standing at the…
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When Completion is Necessary Before any Plan
I came across this story in The Washington Post and wanted to share it immediately, not because it’s inspirational in the tidy, motivational sense, but because it quietly exposes how much of what we think are “rules” are really just expectations we’ve been trained to accept. We’ve been taught to expect outcomes to follow a…
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Before you could bend or break, you need to first know the rules
The phrase “know the rules before you bend or break them” is a popular piece of advice often attributed to artist Pablo Picasso, who said: Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist This phrase isn’t an invitation to rebellion for rebellion’s sake. It’s a reminder that real innovation is born…
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How to Master the Leadership Skills, AI will Never Replace
My friend Julie Winkle Giulioni recently recommended an MIT Sloan Management Review article which made a striking observation: AI has democratized knowledge so completely that “expertise” can no longer be defined by who has the answers. Because now? Everyone has the answers. The article argues that the true value of leadership is shifting — away…
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How to Stop Fear from Killing Creativity
Michael Jackson never needed an introduction. By the time This Is It was announced, the world understood exactly what it meant for him to return to the stage. Not a comeback…a resurrection of genius. A promise that the greatest showman alive was about to deliver something only he could imagine. And then… it never happened.…
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It Isn’t About Being Perfect -It’s About Being Perfectly You
For most of my life, I thought excellence meant perfection. If I could just get it right – the timing, the copy, the offer, the tone, the framework, the output, the guarantee – then things would fall into place. Clients would say yes. Partners would stay. The world would clap and I’d finally be seen…
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What to do when we Feel Estranged from Ourselves
There are days when you can’t quite locate you. Not the professional who knows what to say in a meeting, or the facilitator who helps others find alignment — but the person beneath all of that. The part of you that remembers what it feels like to be connected, grounded, whole. And when that part…
Clarity BEFORE Execution. Structure BEFORE Speed
If you could better understand one thing about your business right now….
Most costly decisions begin with
an inaccurate understanding of the situation.
I help leaders understand what is actually happening before major decisions are made or
resources are invested in solving the wrong problem.
Giselle Hudson | Pre-Decision Diagnostic Advisor | Sensemaking for high-stakes business decisions 