How to Reset a Leadership Partnership That’s Lost Traction
How to Reset a Leadership Partnership That’s Lost Traction If you read our last post on the five ways leadership duos lose traction, you might be sitting with…
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Darcy Luoma, creator of Thoughtfully Fit®, is a Master Certified Coach, dynamic facilitator, and inspiring motivational speaker. She has worked as director for a U.S. Senator, deputy transition director for a governor, and on the national advance team for two U.S. presidential campaigns. As the owner and CEO of Darcy Luoma Coaching & Consulting, she’s worked in forty-eight industries with more than five hundred organizations to create high-performing people and teams. The media has named Darcy the region’s favorite executive-and-life coach four times. Darcy balances her thriving business with raising her two energetic teenage daughters, adventure travel, and competing in triathlons.
Latest Posts by Darcy Luoma
5 Ways Leadership Partnerships Lose Traction (And What’s Not Being Said)
5 Ways Leadership Partnerships Lose Traction (And What’s Not Being Said) If you’re in a leadership partnership (co-founders, a CEO and COO, a visionary and an integrator, or…
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Manager Stress Is Climbing. Pushing Harder Isn’t the Answer.
I’m seeing a trend across many organizations right now, and if you’re in leadership, you’ve probably noticed it too. Resources are getting tighter, and consequently, fewer people are…
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How to Create Momentum When You Don’t Feel Ready
Michelle didn’t come into our coaching session saying, “Darcy, I’m avoiding a hard conversation.” She came in saying, “I don’t know what to do.” Except that she knew…
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EOS Visionary Integrator Conflict: 3 Tensions That Create Friction (Even With Traction)
Visionary and Integrator conflict isn’t always easy to see, especially if the business is doing well. The business has traction, the scorecard tells a mostly positive story, rocks…
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When High Performers Become Toxic Co-Workers
On paper, it looks great. Two peers. Both smart. Both reliable. Both are delivering strong results. If you were building a team from scratch, you’d hire them again…
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The Cost of Not Talking: Repairing Business Partnerships After a Breakdown in Communication
They arrived in my home office at the same time, but I could feel the distance between these two business partners not communicating immediately. As they stood in…
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Executive Coaching Topics: What Leaders Bring to Coaching Sessions
If you’ve never been inside an executive coaching conversation, it’s easy to imagine it’s all big, dramatic moments. A leader storms in, confesses a career-ending flaw, and the…
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The Hidden Cost of Skipping the Storm: Why Conflict Is Essential for Team Development
I was coaching an executive leadership team that got along really well. Maybe too well. Every meeting was polite, efficient, and pleasant. They complimented each other’s ideas and…
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