What would it mean for you to improve the mental energy you need to tackle your day-to-day? In the first in this series of articles, we discussed the five different types of energy that drive and sustain you: The asked you to think of these types of energy as individual batteries that interact synergistically with one another and […]
Six Ways to Support Hidden Transitions
Succession planning that used to play out over months and years is now happening in days, leaving transitioning leaders unprepared for the multiplicity of demands of expanded roles. Shifting responsibilities, typically without promotion in these constrained times, create ‘hidden transitions’ for leaders whose roles are substantively changed and are assigned to the best match available […]
A Proven Formula for Balancing Strategy and Execution as a New CEO
In their recent Harvard Business Review article. “How CEOs Can Balance Strategy and Execution,” Michael Watkins and Millan Alvarez-Miranda posit, “Every CEO must simultaneously develop strategy and drive execution — and the need to do both at once has never been more urgent. As we emerge from the Covid-19 crisis, companies will need to drive […]
Managing Your Personal Energy: The Physical Battery
What if you could improve the physical energy you wake up to each day? In the first article in Genesis Leadership Consultant Francesca Mereu’s Personal Energy Management series, we discussed how there are five “batteries” that drive and sustain your energy in different and meaningful ways via the Personal Energy Management framework. These are: Each of the five batteries […]
From Leader-As-Executor to Leader-As-Healer
Executives can reach peak performance by shrugging off the confines of constant “doing” and integrating their ways of both “thinking” and “being.” The COVID-19 pandemic lies within a much larger pandemic that has gone unnoticed – the split between thinking and feeling, doing and being, and mind, body and heart. A common view of successful […]
5 Questions About Stakeholders You Need to Ask When Starting a New Job
As written by Michael Watkins in his highly popular Harvard Business Review article, “5 Questions to Ask When Starting a New Job,” one of the most important tasks is focusing on the right things. Another key task is identifying and building relationships and alliances with key stakeholders. While new leaders may be given a “meet and greet” […]



