Executive leadership is the ability to influence and guide individuals to get their best performance. The content featured in this category provides valuable insights for executive leaders on how to manage their teams better and meet organizational goals.
Let me say the quiet part out loud: I’ve struggled with boundaries my entire career. Like many leaders, empathy has always come naturally. I can walk into a room and immediately sense the tension, the insecurity, the unspoken fear. And because I see it, I want to fix it. I want to carry it. I...
Ashley Lawson: A New Life as a Global Local Ashley Lawson made a big decision in December of 2020. She wanted to set an example of how to travel safely during Covid, and share what different destinations, like Mexico, were doing to welcome guests back. So she and her husband “packed a backpack with all...
You can be leading a team across time zones, overseeing multimillion-dollar budgets and running an empire of moving parts, but when menopause shows up, it doesn’t care how many stamps are in your passport. For senior-level women in the travel and hospitality industries, executives, founders, decision-makers, the stakes are high. You are the engine behind...
Monday, September 22, marks the annual observance of American Business Women’s Day, a moment to reflect on the achievements, resilience and innovation of women driving progress across industries. This is a powerful annual reminder of the more than 68 million working women and 7.7 million women business owners who keep the American economy moving forward,...
Right. So. In my most recent articles, we’ve talked about defining our goals for the year. About breaking them into bite-sized goals. Communicating them to our teams in a new way that engages both the head and the heart. And celebrating incremental wins along the way. Job done, right? Bahahahahaaaa. Seriously though, just because a...
Women Leading Travel & Hospitality is preparing a new report: “The Experience Advantage: Women Leaders Redefining Travel.” This special feature will highlight executive women who have spent 30+ years in the industry and continue to shape its future at the highest levels of leadership. As women with decades of experience lead as executives, entrepreneurs, culture...
Most leaders don’t set out to create confusion or misalignment. They want to be clear. They want to be kind. They want to elevate others, not micromanage them. They want to lead with presence, not pressure. But somewhere between what we say we value and what we actually do, a quiet tension forms. And that...
There are certain things we tell ourselves as leaders that keep us on autopilot, that keep us from unleashing our full potential, that keep us in a fixed mindset. Megan Miller and Dr. Brandi Baldwin, co-founders of UNLEASHED Women’s Leadership, took the stage at the Women Leading Travel & Hospitality Summit last month and dismantled...
A lot has been said about the importance of trust in leadership. And if you asked most leaders whether they value trust, they would likely say yes. But in practice, trust isn’t something that comes from saying the right words or offering the occasional team retreat. It’s something much quieter than that. Something simpler, and...
You’re in the middle of a tense meeting. Someone questions your decision. Your chest tightens, your jaw locks, and before you can stop it, you react. You speak too quickly. You interrupt. You say something sharp. And in the silence that follows, you notice a flicker of regret. That wasn’t how I meant to respond....
