Samantha Amit

21/05/2026

18/05/2026

Most leaders think presence is a soft skill.

I'd argue it's one of the most strategic ones you have.

Presence means paying attention on three levels simultaneously:
→ What's happening in your body
→ What you're feeling emotionally
→ What's going on in your thinking

When you're disconnected from any one of these, your decisions, your communication, and your impact all suffer.

The good news: you don't need a retreat or a meditation app to practice this. You can build present moment awareness into the moments you're already in. Your next 1:1. Your next all-hands. Your next difficult conversation.

Over 20 years of coaching leaders across tech, finance, and professional services, I've seen this shift make the biggest difference — not just in how leaders feel, but in how they lead.

What does presence look like for you at work?

11/05/2026

Can I ask you something?

How do you decide what NOT to focus on when everything feels critical at the same time?

In a recent live on Strategic Thinking Under Pressure with Presence and AI, Marie brought this question. It's something almost every leader I work with is navigating right now.

We're busy. We're spinning. The priorities keep stacking up, and everything feels urgent.

So here's one of the most powerful tools I give my clients: the Daily Leadership Reset.

At the end of each day, you take a few minutes to dump all your thinking. You ask yourself:

👉 How was my focus today?
👉 Where did I actually prioritize?
👉 Which meetings did I sit in that I didn't need to be in?

That reflection gives you something most leaders never get during the day: perspective on the whole picture.

When you do this consistently, patterns start to emerge. You begin to see where your energy is actually going, where your real priorities live, and where it's time to pull back.

Clarity doesn't come from doing more. It comes from pausing long enough to see clearly.

The Daily Leadership Reset is available at ask-your-coach.com. Take five minutes at the end of your day. Your tomorrow will thank you. 🙏

What's one thing you've found helpful when everything feels urgent at once? I'd love to hear in the comments 👇

11/03/2026

Urgency Is Not Authority
Early in my career, I was always moving.
From one achievement to the next.
From one milestone to the next.
I was effective.
But I was rarely present.

Over time, I realized something important:
Impatience keeps you operational.
Patience allows you to think.

When everything feels urgent, leaders react faster
but they often decide smaller.

As your scope expands, this becomes expensive.

Because at senior levels, your value is no longer speed.
It is judgment.

Patience is not waiting.

It is regulating long enough to separate urgency from importance.

One simple experiment today:
In your next meeting, pause before you respond.

Let your nervous system settle.
Then decide.
That micro-pause is not weakness.
It is executive discipline.

Patience is trainable.

And when leaders practice it, they stop leading from rush
and start leading from authority.

With intention,
Sam

09/03/2026

Authentic relationships are not a soft skill.
They are a performance strategy.

I worked with a young manager leading a ten person sales team with a 3.5 million dollar target ahead of them.

He was driven and capable. But he understood something many leaders miss.

If he focused only on numbers, he would lose the room.

So we worked on connection.

Listening beyond updates.

Becoming aware of tone when pressure rose.

Understanding what truly motivated each team member.

The result?
More ownership.
Fewer escalations.
Stronger alignment.

And the team achieved the 3.5 million dollar target.

Connection and performance are not opposites. They reinforce each other.
If you are leading people right now, where might connection result in better ex*****on?

06/03/2026

As leaders we focus on strategy and decisions.
But connection is physical.
You can feel when it shifts.

A small tightening.
A discomfort you cannot yet name.
A change in the atmosphere.
And often we push through it.

In this short video, I share how to recognize connection and disconnection in the moment.

Before you repair the relationship, regulate yourself.
That is where clarity begins.
Sam.

25/02/2026

In this video, I explore the mindful attitude of patience in leadership.

Patience is often misunderstood as waiting or slowing down. In reality, patience is an active leadership discipline.

For senior leaders and founders navigating executive decision making under pressure, patience means regulating your internal state before responding.

It means integrating your thinking rather than reacting to urgency.

When leaders develop patience with themselves, they:
• Improve leadership clarity
• Reduce reactivity
• Strengthen team alignment
• Make fewer, better decisions

This is not about burnout recovery or slowing down.
It is about restoring choice under pressure.

If you are looking to stop being reactive as a leader and build strategic clarity, this video will give you a grounded starting point.

23/02/2026

In a recent workshop I invited leaders to pay attention to people with them in the breakouts.

“Don’t focus on yourself. Notice the people you’re speaking with. Notice their facial expressions. Notice how it’s landing.”

Executive decision making under pressure improves when we are not trapped in our own head.

Try this in your next team conversation.
Before adjusting your message, adjust your awareness.
What do you see?
Sam
P.S Do share with me

10/02/2026

Ever receive a rude email and overreact? It's normal. Leaders move between effective (above the line) and ineffective (below the line) mindsets. When you notice you're below the line, you regain power to pause and reset. Being ineffective impacts your team.

09/02/2026

Join us for a moment of tranquility. Pause for a moment, take a breath and then practice of self-appreciation and gratitude of taking that moment to pause. Tag someone who needs this today!