Tag Archives: Alexia Vernon

Honesty is Our Influencing Ace in the Hole

By Alexia Vernon | May 8th, 2013

Have you ever told someone something you knew she needed to hear but you weren’t sure she was going to like? When I was starting out as a coach, the answer for me was “no.” I had a natural affinity for the question-asking and the empowering pieces of coaching, but I really struggled with delivering [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Ace in the Hole, Feedback, Honesty, Influencer Academy, Mahatma Gandhi, Women's Leadership | Leave a comment

3 Keys to Unlock Your Influence

By Alexia Vernon | May 1st, 2013

I am so delighted by the response to the launch of the Influencer Academy website and application process. Thank you for taking the time to watch the preview video, learn about the carefully crafted curriculum and extraordinary guest experts, and for considering the opportunity for you and your high potential women. Please get your application [...]

Posted in Adult Learning, Career Advice, Coaching, Leadership, Women's Issues | Also tagged Champions, Influencer Academy, Role Play, Sponsors, Step Into Your Moxie, Women's Leadership | Leave a comment

The Voices of the “Little People” Matter

By Alexia Vernon | April 17th, 2013

As so often happens, a problem, idea, or experience shows up in my life a few times within a week, and my processing of it spawns the musings I share with my virtual community. And so it is this week. First, last weekend I read an article about Majora Carter in the New York Times. [...]

Posted in Coaching, Communication, Leadership | Also tagged Community Development, Corporate Culture, Engagement, Majora Carter | Leave a comment

How One Word Can Make Big Impact

By Alexia Vernon | April 10th, 2013

For the last year, I’ve been dating churches. While my religious upbringing has been a bit of a hodgepodge – I was raised Greek Orthodox, attended Catholic school, and have a sweet spot in my heart for attending synagogue with my dad on Yom Kippur (the holiday that most embodies my spiritual identity because of [...]

Posted in Adult Learning, Career Advice, Communication | Also tagged heart-centered, High-Impact Communication, Sex Trafficking, Sexual Violence, Shame, Step Into Your Moxie Mastery | Leave a comment

My Month of 100 Percent Honesty Begins

By Alexia Vernon | April 3rd, 2013

This month I agreed to be a part of Tech Cocktail writer Kira Newman’s ambitious project, The Honesty Experiment, where I have vowed to be 100 percent honest with myself and others for 30 days. Each week in April, 7 other participants and I will blog about our experiences. Less than 3 full days in I am [...]

Posted in Adult Learning, Coaching, Communication, Happiness, Personal Development | Also tagged difficult conversations, Integrity, Kira Newman, The Honesty Experiment, Transparency, Wholeheartedness | Leave a comment

What I Learned About Control from a Group of World Changers

By Alexia Vernon | March 27th, 2013

In one of the activities that I do with leaders as an entry-point into discussing how we harness our personal power, individual participants are asked to label each one of 20 hypothetical possibilities for power a unique number from 1-20. 1 signifies what you would most like to do with your personal power and 20, [...]

Posted in Adult Learning, Civic Engagement, Happiness, Leadership, Work-Life Balance | Also tagged Personal Power, self-care, social enterprise, social impact, work-life integration | Leave a comment

Does Somebody’s Success and Privilege Make You Trust Her Less?

By Alexia Vernon | March 20th, 2013

I doubt I’m surprising anybody when I say that I’m a big fan of Sheryl Sandberg and her bestselling book, Lean In. Not only am I a practitioner for and advocate of developing female leaders, but I’m also passionate about many of the subjects Sandberg talks about: teaching women how to effectively negotiate in all [...]

Posted in Career Advice, Women's Issues | Also tagged Bias, Emily Bennington, Lean In, Mentorship, NBC, Negotiation, Pay Inequity, Privilege, Sheryl Sandberg, Sponsorship, Step Into Your Moxie, Success, Vegas Inc., Who Says It's a Man's World | Leave a comment

There are No Do Overs…But There are Do Forwards

By Alexia Vernon | March 13th, 2013

In the last 3 weeks I’ve had the opportunity to go to several prisons and a jail as a part of my participation with the extraordinary Leadership Las Vegas program, facilitated by the Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce. As evidenced by the picture on the left, I’ve even had the opportunity to preside over [...]

Posted in Adult Learning, Career Advice, Coaching, Communication, Leadership, Personal Development | Also tagged forgiveness, Jail, Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Las Vegas, Prison, Rehabilitation, Shame | Leave a comment

The Douchey Side of Making Impact

By Alexia Vernon | February 28th, 2013

I was embarrassed. I had shown up as a sponsor to a local screening of Jennifer Siebel’s documentary, Miss Representation, and as I re-watched one of my favorite documentaries on the impact of the media on girls and women I realized I was part of the problem. Moments like this are uncomfortable. Especially when we realize [...]

Posted in Adult Learning, Leadership, Personal Development | Also tagged Impact, influence, Jennifer Siebel, Miss Representation, Personal Responsibility, Step Into Your Moxie | Leave a comment

Emily Bennington and I Gab “Who Says It’s a Man’s World”

By Alexia Vernon | February 20th, 2013

“Ambition gap, schmambition gap, ” begins Emily Bennington in her new, must-read book, Who Says It’s a Man’s World. “Women aren’t 16 percent of board directors and corporate officers because the other 84 percent don’t want the job. Obviously, there’s something else going on.” Emily has triggered a new and necessary conversation about how to [...]

Posted in Career Advice, Happiness, Leadership, Women in Business, Women's Issues | Also tagged Emily Bennington, interview, Step Into Your Moxie, Who Says It's a Man's World | Leave a comment

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