The Power of Courageous Intent

By Andrea Chilcote
As I look into the new year, like many of you, I don’t have a clear view of what the future holds. When people ask me what I have planned for 2025, I startle a bit. How could I possibly know what I intend for 2025 when I don’t want 2024 to end?
Yesterday, when asked this question (again), I replied,

Looking Back to Look Ahead

By Andrea Chilcote
With the holidays upon us (already!), it’s time to look back and reflect on the year. I hope you can find an abundance of gratitude, albeit mixed with some “what ifs.” Reflection can be so meaningful…

Leadership Courage: Desired, Yet Elusive

By Andrea Chilcote
We are steeped in the process of gathering evidence to prove (or disprove) my hypothesis that what leaders need now are compassion, courage, and humility. Part of that work involves an assessment of leaders of varying levels across

Free Leadership Assessment: Anecdotes to Evidence

By Andrea Chilcote Compassion, courage, and humility. It’s been more than a year since the release of my book, What Leaders Need Now, a work in which I posit that these three leadership qualities are simultaneously essential for healthy, thriving organizational cultures—and in dangerously short supply.

The Burnout Complexity

By Andrea Chilcote How are you feeling right now? Energized or drained? Lively or bored? Engaged or burned out? I am blessed to do work that I love. Yet there are times when I’m feeling tired, rundown, and in need of…something.

Becoming Who We Are

By Andrea Chilcote
As we grow through life, do we change “who we are” or do we become ourselves? I remember being asked by a potential client, “What do you do, really, as a coach?” He seemed earnest, so I answered sincerely. “I help people become themselves,” I replied.

So, You Have an Executive Coach…Now What?

By Andrea Chilcote
This article was born from my latest podcast episode in which I interviewed two clients about their experience with executive coaching. David Clapp of CarterBaldwin Executive Search and Virginia Neiswender of Cox Enterprises kindly spent time with me to help other leaders understand the benefits of coaching and share some of the best practices for maximizing its impact.

Now is the Time to Engage

By Andrea Chilcote
Have you recently heard (or spoken) the phrase, “There’s a lot of fear out there”? I have heard it a lot, though I’m in the unique position in which people often confide in me the conversations they have only with themselves in the middle of the night.

What We Carry – The Journey of Self Compassion

By Andrea Chilcote

Calling all worriers. You know who you are.

There was a time, many years ago, when I believed worrying was one of the means to success in my growing business. I believed that my continual creation of what-ifs and contingency plans B, C, D, and on through the alphabet, were what kept me from disaster. Thankfully, I learned that this behavior was simply a mind trap of sorts, a condition of allowing my mind to summon imaginary impending doom, then conceive of a host of solutions until satisfaction (or mental exhaustion) was reached.

What We Carry – The Journey of Self Compassion

By Andrea Chilcote

Perfectionism. It’s a label thrown around often, sometimes carelessly. It can be used in a pejorative way yet can be worn as a badge of honor. Perfectionism is not a mental health disorder—it’s a personality trait. And like any personality trait, taken to an extreme, it can be debilitating.
In this series, I seek to help readers lighten the load of the burdens we all carry, often unconsciously, that cause us to be less than compassionate, kind, and loving toward ourselves.