Some of the best leadership conversations happen around a BBQ With National BBQ Day coming up, I was thinking about how often people open up when there’s no formal agenda, no pressure, and no meeting invite attached to the conversation. Standing around a BBQ has a way of leveling things out. People relax. Stories come out. You learn what’s actually going on in someone’s world. Over the years, I’ve learned some of the most valuable leadership moments happen in the in-between s

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How unclear expectations quietly derail executive readiness. We all hear leadership feedback like “you need to be more courageous” — but what if that guidance is actually masking a deeper misalignment in expectations? Recently, a top performer poised for a COO succession track was stalled not by lack of courage, but by a mismatch between how they defined courage and what the organization actually needed. Rather than pushing harder, the Nexus Coaching Approach helped this lea