Author: jennfarrer

I regularly find that leaders harbor emotionally-laden, often erroneous, beliefs about themselves and their own leadership talent that compromise their ability to perform. Put simply, most leaders don’t know their own strengths, and it undermines their effectiveness. Take the example of the over-talker, a leader who has to have the first and the last word.…

In the cover story of the May 2014 Atlantic, “The Confidence Gap” journalists Claire Shipman and Katty Kay addressed an obstacle that my colleagues and I experience almost daily in our work helping female executives overcome their leadership challenges. Put simply, the best and brightest women often don’t know—or don’t internalize—how valued they really are.…