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How to Know When Coaching is the Answer

By Alexia Vernon | March 28th, 2012

I’m two weeks into working with the inaugural cohort of Influencer Academy, and I’m grateful to be facilitating a program that makes me feel so alive and on purpose. My participants are amazing – incredibly eager to learn and grow. Superbly self-reflexive. Generous – with me and with the other members of the group. It’s [...]

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When Are You Going to Make Peace With Your Hypocrisy?

By Alexia Vernon | March 21st, 2012

“You’ve got to be kidding me?” I thought to myself as I was driving home earlier this week. I was listening to a story on NPR about a young man who came home after serving in Iraq, started questioning the legitimacy of the war, became active in the anti-war movement and then…went on back to [...]

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2012: The Year of Behavioral Change

By Alexia Vernon | January 11th, 2012

One of the greatest investments I made in myself in 2011 was throwing down the bucks to work with online marketing and women’s lifestyle luminary Marie Forleo - first in her Rich, Happy & Hot B-School program and then in her Rich, Happy & Hot Live event. While Marie’s genius is vast, I think my top tweet-sized takeaway from both of [...]

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Stop Subsisting on Fast Food Communication

By Alexia Vernon | November 30th, 2011

One of my least favorite things to hear from a client is, “What’s the point in having the conversation? We’re never going to get anywhere.” And in most cases, the client is right. Most of us have the same conversation again and again because we show up to our verbal communication with a fast food [...]

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It’s Not About You, So Who is It About?

By Alexia Vernon | September 28th, 2011

I read A LOT of books. Six in September alone. There’s nothing that gives me a greater rush than curling up in bed with a new title, flipping pages, smelling that new book smell, and having somebody’s words make my head, hurt, and gut sing. (Yup, while I’m glad that the Kindle and iPad are [...]

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When Respect and Ethics Collide, What’s a Well Intentioned Leader to Do?

By Alexia Vernon | April 29th, 2010

In Five Minds for the Future, author Howard Gardner discusses the difference between respect and ethics. He states that respect is the process of understanding where other people are coming from and giving them the benefit of the doubt while ethics is fulfilling your roles (e.g., employee, parent, child, citizen, etc.) responsibly and from a [...]

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Get Rid of Your "But’s"

By Alexia Vernon | March 24th, 2010

I have a confession to make. I am a recovering “but” user. I have had a lengthy history of trying to meet a listener where s/he was at, and then have sought to bring the person over to my side… “the right side.” I have often done this by beginning a statement mirroring what my [...]

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Start Thinking About Positive Thinking, Damn It

By Alexia Vernon | February 15th, 2010

For the last 3-ish years, I’ve lived and coached from the maxim- “Thoughts produce feelings which produce actions which produce results. Whether you’re looking to develop yourself or your employees, if you want to get a different result work backwards until you re-shape the thoughts that are motivating the process that is leading to the [...]

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Why Great Teachers Make Great Leaders

By Alexia Vernon | January 27th, 2010

I know that my background designing, delivering, and evaluating participant-centered professional development programs for New York City educators prepared me deliciously for the focus of my current work- partnering with a broader range of emerging and evolving leaders to realize sustainable success in their respective businesses and careers. In Amanda Ripley’s January/February 2010 The Atlantic [...]

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