Authentic Leadership International

26/02/2025

🚨 With recent cuts to DEI and other well-intentioned programs, one thing is clear—waiting for change is no longer an option.

Now, more than ever, we need to stand taller, stronger, and more united in who we are as women leaders. Hard work alone isn’t enough. To break barriers and advance, we must build influence, cultivate strategic alliances, and own our power.

That’s why I’m hosting Executive Edge: Influence, Alliances & Career Growth in a Male-Led Culture—a free roundtable for senior women leaders ready to rise above the shifting landscape and claim their space.

💡 Join us for real strategies on:
✔ Navigating power dynamics without playing politics
✔ Mastering influence to drive your career forward
✔ Building a strong network of allies who amplify your leadership impact

📅 March 19, 2025 | Virtual | Recording available

It’s time to step up, claim our place, and lead with boldness. Join us: https://www.boldermoves.com/executive-edge-roundtable/

👉 Tag a fellow leader who should be in this conversation!

Katja Pischel

11/11/2024

If you're going through a hard time or just generally feeling low, may my article - inspired by last week's events - be of comfort.

Learn how hard times build resilience & sharpen leadership skills, turning challenges into strengths for more courageous, impactful leadership.

09/10/2024

As you have probably heard from my story, my own path to Authentic, Role Model Leadership has been plagued with self-doubt….Indeed, many times, those naysaying voices both outside and inside me seemed like they would have their way. And at short intervals, they did. But not for long.

Instead, a big part of my journey has been learning how to overcome and work with these less-than-supportive voices so that I could evolve and take my rightful place in the business and leadership world, much of which involves helping others find and use their true voice.

And that’s why I’m so passionate about helping all of you acknowledge (because they’re part of who we are) and still walk past all those inner voices which tell us we’re not good enough and to step into your full radiance.

With that in mind, I am delighted to invite you to a FREE ROUND TABLE on exactly this topic:

Snap Out of Self-Doubt

In it, you will get to Join me and a powerhouse panel of successful female founders who are going to share the keys to the castle for overcoming overthinking, overworking, and undervaluing yourself.

Event: Date: Wednesday, October 16
Time: 10am PT / 1pm ET /7 pm CET

Here is the link to register for this event: https://www.rebeccavigelius.com/selfdoubtroundtable

Featuring:

🔥HOST: Rebecca Vigelius, Helping driven leaders and teams excel in high-stress, high-stakes environments without sacrificing results or well-being.
🔥Katja Pischel, Germany's TOP personal branding expert for leaders in tech
🔥Erin Reece, Money therapist, expert bookkeeper, and CFO with a no-shame approach to understanding your books and increasing profit
🔥Colleen Slaughter, Senior Executive Coach, Top Team Facilitator, and Leadership Development Advisor

Come join us!

Here is the link again to register for this event: https://www.rebeccavigelius.com/selfdoubtroundtable


Very much looking forward to seeing you there!!!

KKatja Pischel

https://www.rebeccavigelius.com/selfdoubtroundtable

FREE 60-MIN ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION Wednesday, October 16 - 10am PT / 1pm ET Snap Out of Self-Doubt Get the Snap Out of Self-Doubt Protocol for avoiding the 3 am, 2-hour avalanche of self-judgment, comparison, and over-analyzing all the day’s interactions — and instead trust your inner wisdom so y...

06/10/2024

After over six months of hitting it hard to "make" my new business strategy work
- making over 500 connections
- the creation of a whole new service line
- discovering and starting to roll out my "hook" branding
- and many other actions like learning new entrepreneurial tools, adopting a more "CEO" mindset and taking greater ownership of the future I want to create

I was exhausted!

Worse, it felt like I was running my heart out - on a treadmill which was firmly fixed in place, getting nowhere.

But I am an A+ personality a Get-It-Done Girl: I know how to get into action. And get into action I did, over and over.

Even though I know better that over-doing rarely leads to the most impactful results.

That is, until people I admire - and whom I know care about me - re-role-modeled Surrender. Not surrender as in "I won't lift a finger here" but surrender as in "We do the footwork and then we let go of the results." This is how we can let grace and higher-level thinking in.

I know how to live like that, by the way, I had just forgotten. But not anymore. Because when I get back to the why of my business in the first place, it's to live out my purpose. Which I can only do when both my masculine/doing energies and those of my feminine/receiving side are in balance.

So here's to my renewed commitment to the doing, yes, and also to receiving. Here's to Surrender and all it can do for our leadership.

Extend a helping hand. Great leadership is about how much we help others – not what we do for ourselves. Try letting go, it may surprise you.

01/10/2024

Boy, do I need to take a dose of my own medicine lately!

With a new business strategy, an economy which is not exactly wildly supporting my line of work and my sense of planting seed after seed with no harvest in sight, Frustration has has come up more times than I care to acknowledge.

After all, with all of this effort I am expending, why isn't my way working and in the timeframe I want it to?

And around and around the thought loop goes - until the wiser part of me steps in and reminds myself that in every upset, there is a set up for learning. That every time I feel frustrated, it is exactly because I am trying to have things go my way - as though I know better than the universe!

Instead, when I can use my frustration as an invitation to step back and become more open to a breakthrough from a completely different direction, I and the solution I was seeking are usually taken to a whole other level.

So everything - even frustration - can be for our learning, if we want it to be.

Frustration is the foundation of the creative process – learn tips how to use it effectively to cultivate meaningful change in leadership & life.

30/09/2024

Debunking Common Leadership Myths was the name of the game in my conversation with Gary Montalvo. In this Episode #25 of the Ownership Game, Gary and I got to delve into the multifaceted world of leadership with such themes as
• How emotional health and self-awareness are critical for genuine leadership.
• How the leadership muscle is built through consistency and committed daily practices.
• How the pursuit of perfection can hamper growth and limit the authenticity of a leader.
• How establishing and maintaining accountability is essential for realizing leadership goals and personal transformations.

Come have a listen of our full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/dyMQcyAH

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22/09/2024

Are you truly your authentic self at work, or are you caught in a ceaseless cycle of people-pleasing and perfectionism, always dreading making a mistake? We often hear the advice to be ourselves at work, but how many of us actually practice it? Many professionals bite their tongues, smile politely, and strive to maintain peace, often at the cost of their own integrity.

Come listen to the latest episode of “Lead with Levity,” where Dr. Heather Walker and I delve into these unspoken fears

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/embracing-authenticity-in-the-workplace-insights-from/id1479539272?i=1000669688792

08/09/2024

As Darren Hardy writes, getting to our goal can only happen with small, daily habits practiced consistently.

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03/09/2019

“In order to create well-being in their workforce, leaders must create a culture where self-care is encouraged and enhanced. This is most effective when top leadership models the behavior they want to see in their organization.”–Monica Thakrar in Forbes

Are you ready to take your leadership to a whole new level? Receive simple strategies and effective tips to help you become a more centered, impactful leader, delivered to your inbox fresh every week. Transformation begins here- https://www.boldermoves.com/weekly-bold-moves/

29/08/2019

Want an innovative burst of leadership inspiration, delivered fresh to your inbox each week? Sign up for our FREE Weekly Bold Moves! https://www.boldermoves.com/weekly-bold-moves/

We’ve created this FREE series featuring weekly inspiration to take BOLD action in a simple, concrete way. https://www.boldermoves.com/weekly-bold-moves/

Wondering what these BOLD Moves look like? Here’s a recent sample:

Take a conscious breath. The breath is a simple way to find centeredness, which itself is an attribute of inspirational leaders.

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27/08/2019

What’s the foundation for extraordinary leadership that leaves a lasting impact?

Self-reflection.

Far from being selfish, self-reflection allows us to explore ourselves more deeply – or as Inc.com author Jacob Morgan asserts, “Before you can lead other people, you have to learn how to lead yourself.”

“Self awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.” – Debbie Ford What’s the foundation for extraordinary leadership that leaves a lasting impact? Self-reflection.