🌟 The Power of Community: Enriching Leadership Journeys 🌟 Did you know that our brains respond to community with the release of oxytocin, the “love hormone”? Love is the strongest of the positive emotions… it does us the most good, and can turn a negative state of mind around. Building strong connections has incredible benefits: 1️⃣ Enhanced well-being 2️⃣ Increased resilience 3️⃣ Expanded knowledge 4️⃣ Amplified collaboration 5️⃣…
I am a proud alumna and member of the Board of Visitors at the TCU Bob Schieffer College of Communication. I received my masters of science there, and spent the best of my undergraduate years writing for the Skiff, reporting on KTCU FM and writing for TCU Magazine (it had another name back then). Last week in our board meeting leadership announced that I was named the college’s…
You’re cordially invited to an extraordinary event that brings together two dynamic voices in the world of women’s empowerment. L. Michelle Smith, author of “Yes Please! 7 Ways to Say I’m Entitled to the C-Suite,” and A’Lelia Bundles, renowned journalist and biographer, will engage in a captivating fireside chat followed by a book reading and signing. Date: Wed, Oct 4, 2023 Time: 7:30 PM Location: Busboys & Poets,…
Dear friends… 🎯 Setting clear goals is the roadmap to your personal and leadership development journey. 🚀 Use the SMART framework to define objectives that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. 📈 Forming new habits is useless without a clear, related, values-based goal. It’s the way your dreams become achievable milestones. Journal Question: What is one good habit you’d like to form this month that will put…
When Andrea Williams, Chief Experience Officer at the Utah Jazz intentionally taps into positive emotion by celebrating other women leaders’ achievements, she activates three positive emotions at once: ✅Joy, because it’s contagious when you recognize someone, they typically smile and the mirror effect happens— you smile too, and both of you feel good! ✅ Pride, because if you’re invested in lifting other women up, you’ll be glad…
I’ll be signing copies of my latest book, “Yes Please! 7 Ways to Say I’m Entitled to the C-Suite,” in Washington D.C. on October 5th at the Executive Leadership Council’s Mid-Level Management Symposium. Join me immediately following my session, “The Power of Positive Emotion to Propel You to Better leadership,” from 10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. ET. 📍 Location: Gaylord Hotel & Resort, National Harbor. Check your symposium…
Sometimes it simply takes more… …to lift you out of moods and mindsets and move you forward. So we reimagined things for you. Have you explored “Coaching+ Counseling” with L. Michelle Smith, M.S., ACC, CPEC and Dr. Jeff Gardere for yourself or your organization? Join the many leaders in my coaching community who have. Inspired by our work together on the book Yes Please! 7 Ways to Say…
#FlashbackFriday to last week at the Texas Christian University Black Excellence Night Gala with my cohost, Newy Scruggs. We had a blast emceeing the event, reminiscing, storytelling and sparking thoughts and giggles throughout the night. Hosting is fun. I host once every blue moon. Some of my most unforgettable moments were at @nabjofficial with ABC’s @linseytdavis and not long ago for my Sorors of @oao1908 when they took…
Meet me for the Executive Leadership Council’s (@elcinfo) Mid-Level Management Symposium, Oct 4-5 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, MD. I’ll be hosting an engaging session on The Power of Positive Emotion to Propel You to Better Leadership. It’s a cornerstone message that centers my latest book, Yes Please! 7 Ways to Say I’m Entitled to the C-Suite, a leadership and coaching guide…
Looking for a way out? Perhaps your answer isn’t simply unlearning the habit. It may be finding a community with others fighting the same habit. Building great new habits that promote leadership and personal development is a crucial aspect of self-improvement. What’s Black about it? One of the insights in Yes Please! surrounds how Black women over index on negative feelings after taking in media (social or traditional)…