Today, I said goodbye to my client, JFM. I did not see this coming. A month ago, she was securing a position in a flagship company in her industry. Shortly thereafter, she was accepted into one of the finest international MBA programs in the world. This is the final piece...
Posted January 11, 2010 | 16:34:00 (EST)
In January, 2009, I had the honor of beginning to work with a client - we are calling her JFM - who had just been fired from her role as president of a medium-sized company. For her, 2009 was fraught with all that comes with unemployment - economic...
Posted December 3, 2009 | 07:57:02 (EST)
Last year my client, JFM, went through the searing experience of being fired from her role as president of a medium-sized company. After a full year of unemployment she came into our last session confident that she was on the brink of securing a challenging position within an innovative brand...
Posted November 4, 2009 | 15:36:31 (EST)
Nine months ago my client, JFM, was fired from her job as President of a medium-sized company. She entered leadership coaching with me as a result, and we decided to chronicle her experience, sharing with you, the reader, the essence of our work together. After last month's entry, I received...
Posted October 9, 2009 | 10:47:03 (EST)
We are tracking coaching sessions between JFM, who has been fired from her role as President of a medium-sized company, and her advisor, Jan Birchfield, Ph.D., of Princeton Leadership Development. JFM has been trying to make sense of how she wound up being fired, after having been a top performer...
Posted September 8, 2009 | 14:01:01 (EST)
This is the third article in a series that invites the reader to eavesdrop on coaching sessions between JFM, who has been fired from her role as President of a medium-sized company, and her leadership coach, Jan Birchfield, Ph.D., of Princeton Leadership Development. In this conversation, we explored the relationship...
Posted August 14, 2009 | 19:14:37 (EST)
This is the second article in a series that invites the reader to easedrop on coaching sessions between JFM, who has recently been fired from her role as President of a medium-sized company, and her advisor, Jan Birchfield, Ph.D., of Princeton Leadership Development. We talked about the impact that the...
Posted June 6, 2009 | 12:57:00 (EST)
Three months ago I was fired from my position as President of a medium-sized company, in an industry that had employed me for 20 years. When I received this news I left the office completely numb. How could this have happened to me?
18 months earlier, when I took...
Posted January 29, 2010 | 08:28:42 (EST)