Executive leaders who align their company’s culture with strategy and purpose come out ahead no matter the challenge. Read more on how to make it happen.

We often ask leaders to look inside to address what’s happening on the outside. Adjusting your mind and your outlook is the first step to adjusting behavior. Now more than ever, we’re asking clients to slow down. To step away. The idea of pausing to increase forward momentum is counter intuitive.

The greatest impact can often come from the simplest approach. Take one small step today to lead, and to change yourself and your world for the better.

 "Never use a complex word when a simple one will do." Your purpose in any communication—a one-on-one meeting, a sales pitch, a presentation to hundreds—is to create a relationship with your audience. Don't overcomplicate it.

The more we dig deep into one area, the more we understand where we still have work to do.

As I was filling my car with gas the other night, I took a moment to express gratitude for 24x7 availability for gas stations – because I remember the days when my parents had to go get gas only when the station was open, or risk running out of fuel.

I had a theory…

I was standing in the hallway at the office waiting for a meeting to end so we could grab the room. Just then, one of our senior leaders – a woman - walked out of the meeting with her jaw dropped. “What’s wrong?” I asked. “They just asked me to get coffee for the rest of the group.”

What's it like to attend a Nova immersion for women? Kathleen Woodhouse shares a few of the highlights of this retreat. Develop your leadership skills AND a new friendship or two.

So many people I work with are incredibly talented, smart and accomplished executives. To look at their titles, their scope of responsibility or their backgrounds, it would be easy to think they have it all and that they’ve made it. And yet this isn’t always the case, at least in their own minds.

If you’re trying to increase your credibility, strengthen your executive presence and make a bigger impact in a leadership role, an underrated trait to develop is sincerity. When you can cut through all the noise that often accompanies high level decision making, you’re not only more effective as a leader, you also save everyone time. Here are three ways you can be more sincere in the workplace.

Read this Forbes Coaches Council article featuring insights from our very own Kathleen Woodhouse.

Check out Kathleen’s article published on Forbes.

"All I am is a number to them, and all they are is a paycheck to me." How many of us have felt that way? More importantly, what can you do about it? I’ve found that even if your current work situation feels dire, these 4 actions are ones we can take to stay motivated and happy.

I realized in a moment that everything had changed. I thought, “I was asleep and didn’t even know it and now I’m awake.” I felt energetic, happy. I was present.  Even the colors of everything I saw seemed richer and deeper. It was, to borrow a term we like to use at Nova, illuminating.

Millennials and older workers can learn from each other in the office. Chances are high that you’ve invited a millennial into an established workplace, with its own culture and way of doing things. Friendly reminder, you can be younger than 30 and still have good ideas. Second friendly reminder, an old dog can and probably wants to learn new tricks.

“Love what you do” sounds like something that should miraculously happen, not something you have to develop. Cultivating passion makes it sound like, well, work. But cultivating passion is exactly what you have to do to develop the consistency, commitment, motivation, and drive to live the life you want.

So how do you cultivate passion? Read on.

So much has been written about the concept of Inspirational Leadership. We’re all looking to uncover the key to untapped potential in our teams. To motivate our teams to do more, and achieve more. To believe in something bigger than the task. Let's talk about HOW.

Thoughtfulness, in executive presence terms, means having thought something through before you respond. This is trickier than it sounds, because to think something through and provide a thoughtful response to someone, you have to listen to what they are really asking for.