The Numina Blog
The Inclusion Revolution: How and When to Make Your Marginal Voices Matter
Sometimes I get asked to do an exit interview with a disgruntled departing employee. It is always tragic to see the loss of good talent that couldn’t find a fit. For example, while the boss felt the person was more disruptive than productive, the departing employee...
Resolve Conflict Like a Maestro with These Actionable Expert Tips
The challenges that leaders bring up in coaching sessions are so often about conflicts that have turned nasty. Surveys show people still fear war more than climate change or technology. As I am sure you have noticed, most conflict comes from some struggle about who is...
Get Used It… You Are Already Enough
I can’t tell you how many people we work with who, as a young girl or boy, felt in some way under-appreciated. Practically everyone! Right? We all know what it is to want to be seen, crave respect, be understood, or even just fairly treated. By adulthood, this festers...
3 Powerful Trends To Turn Loss of Connection Into Shared Love
As a teenager, I was trained to treat the whole of humanity as if it were a person, a collective body. Through my family values, boarding school education, and a strong sense of destiny, I came to see the world as if it were in my care. Like a coaching client or...
Turn Pain into Profit: The Opportunity In Our Core Wounds
In the next four posts, we will explore how the four wounds outlined below impact the world and the market opportunities each of them create. Take for example the much-discussed isolation epidemic, which is an expression of abandonment. The loss of love most of...
How Welcome Do You Feel In This World?
It is my birthday this week and I have been contemplating what we each go through when we are born. We are imprinted from our earliest memories and from stories we are told about our origins. For example, some aspects of my birth were less than calm. The labor was...
David Lesser
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David is a social entrepreneur who believes the best way to change the world is to empower people to be more fully themselves. He has guided people and organizations through crucial transitions for over 35 years, acting as coach and confidant to CEOs and senior executives aspiring to the highest levels of personal growth.