Alignment is not a feeling.
Hi , As leaders, we often treat alignment like it’s a feeling. “If the meeting felt good, we must be aligned.” “If we didn’t disagree, everything must be fine.” “If…
When Leadership Feels Loud.
When Leadership Feels Loud.
Hello, One of the biggest challenges leaders face today isn’t workload it’s noise. Too many decisions. Too many expectations. Too much pressure to respond before you’ve had time to think.…
A quick insight.[FIRST NAME GOES HERE]
A quick insight.[FIRST NAME GOES HERE]
Hello, As you move through this week, I wanted to share a short insight that’s been resonating with many leaders I coach: Clarity and emotional regulation are becoming two of…
Let’s Lead With Clarity
Let’s Lead With Clarity
Hello Partners, The leaders I coach are smart, capable, and driven but even the best can hit a wall when things get loud and complicated. Sometimes what’s missing isn’t effort,…
Stepping Into a New Season
Stepping Into a New Season
Hello Partners, Over the past few months I’ve been writing about stretch goals, modern leadership, and what it takes to stay steady in a changing world. Today, I’m taking…
Why “Go Big or Go Home” Can backfire.
Why “Go Big or Go Home” Can backfire.
Hello Team, Last time, we talked about stretch goals, the big, bold targets that push us past comfort. The response was incredible, so let’s go a layer deeper. Here’s the…
Navigating the Future of Work: Essential Skills and Continuous Learning
Navigating the Future of Work: Essential Skills and Continuous Learning
Dear Coaching Family, I am excited to share with you some news about the future of work. I read the latest data and wanted to share with each of you.…
3 Leadership Shifts to Stay Ahead of 2025
3 Leadership Shifts to Stay Ahead of 2025
I hope you are doing well. I have been thinking about leadership and you as of late. Leadership is constantly changing and evolving in this present work environment. And so,…
3 Leadership Hacks That Actually Work ( No Fluff)
3 Leadership Hacks That Actually Work ( No Fluff)
Dear Friends, I just finished diving into Anish Shah's talk at the HBR Leadership Summit (yes, I'm that person that nerds out on these types of gatherings). His advise wasn't…
You’re Not Broken. The Work Day Is.
You’re Not Broken. The Work Day Is.
Hello Coaching Partners, I have been researching the science about work and this is what I found: Here’s something wild: the 8-hour workday was designed in 1926 for factory workers.…
Before The Weekend
Before The Weekend
Dear Coaching Friends, As we approach the weekend, I invite you to consider a question that often gets lost in the weekly metrics and deliverables: What is the one strategic…
Stretch Goals
Stretch Goals
In today's organizations we often hear the common term "stretch goals" but what are they really? Have they been well defined? This term is as elusive as the term "executive…
The Importance of Mental-First Aid for Managers
The Importance of Mental-First Aid for Managers
Hello I Speak Life family I have been thinking about you and how I can be of service in 2024. I'm constantly thinking about adding value and expanding services and…
The 1:1 Meeting
The 1:1 Meeting
Hello, I wanted to share with you a few thoughts on 1:1 meetings. In my work, I cover a lot of territory with clients. And one area that seems to…
Remote Work Productivity: Tips for Working from Home Effectively
Remote Work Productivity: Tips for Working from Home Effectively
We are all dealing with the "new normal," which means juggling the demands of working from home for an unforeseen period. While this setup has the potential for increased productivity,…
How Forward-Thinking Leaders Drive Success
How Forward-Thinking Leaders Drive Success
In todays rapidly evolving business landscape, visionary leaders are more important than ever. These are the individuals who have a unique ability to see the bigger picture, anticipate changes before…
Everything Must Change
Everything Must Change
I Speak Life Coaching is expanding our services and will be offering executive group coaching soon. Stay tuned!!!
Strong Executive Presence Skills – Mastering Character, Substance, and Style
Strong Executive Presence Skills – Mastering Character, Substance, and Style
Executive Presence remains one of the most misunderstood terms in business. The definition of Executive Presence, while many stumble to articulate it, is your ability to influence others, create personal…
Black Life Coach at I Speak Life Coaching – David Shawn Smith
Black Life Coach at I Speak Life Coaching – David Shawn Smith
As the Principal Black life coach and founder at I Speak Life Coaching, LLC, I speak to my clients from the perspective of a Black man who has experienced and…
Defanging and Demystifying Executive Presence for BIPOC and UP Communities
Defanging and Demystifying Executive Presence for BIPOC and UP Communities
Is Executive Presence used as a weapon against BIPOC and UP communities? What is EP and how can we redefine it and lead with agency instead of lack.
How To Get Your Raise
How To Get Your Raise
Naturally, you want to be paid what you’re worth. An automatic pay rise used to be the norm. But, nowadays due to the economic situation, you have to toughen up…
How To Deal With A Bad Boss
How To Deal With A Bad Boss
It’s easy to take a poor performance review personally. It can feel like a real kick in the teeth, in fact. You’ve worked hard and you aced your job this…
Dealing With a Bad Performance Review
Dealing With a Bad Performance Review
It’s easy to take a poor performance review personally. It can feel like a real kick in the teeth, in fact. You’ve worked hard and you aced your job this…
Team Performance
Team Performance
“The most valuable asset of a 21st century institution, whether business or non-business, will be its knowledge workers and their productivity.”-Peter Drucker, Austrian author How common is it for a…
Executive Presence While Working From Home
Executive Presence While Working From Home
As we all try to survive in these strange times, work must continue. Communicating at work now entails using remote technology to take part in virtual meetings, deliver conference presentations,…
How to deal with your anger? 3 steps to regain your calm
How to deal with your anger? 3 steps to regain your calm
Who in their life has never got angry? Lamented gestures, inappropriate words, violent attitudes… Welcome to the world of humans! Your excess anger bothers you daily, in your relationship or…
Turning Your Anger Into Life Energy
Turning Your Anger Into Life Energy
https://vimeo.com/464549501 “Getting off the hinges” “Being furious”…. Anger can be cold like ice, explosive like a volcano, or even invisible and inaudible. Anger has a thousand faces, and its capacity…
Developing A Growth Mindset For You And Your Business
Developing A Growth Mindset For You And Your Business
Thankfully, much of your potential is in your hands, although people with a fixed mindset might disagree. If you wish to develop a growth mindset in your personal life or…
Three Ways To Train Yourself For Change
Three Ways To Train Yourself For Change
I am sure that you have gone through seasons of changes in which uncertainty did not allow you to push correctly. Being a Success Coach in Atlanta, I would even…
Executive Coaching Georgia – Your Leadership In Difficult Times
Executive Coaching Georgia – Your Leadership In Difficult Times
It is difficult to decide whether to share or not, in the midst of an avalanche of uncertainty and over-information. However, there is a little voice that is always there,…
Growth Mindset And Leadership
Growth Mindset And Leadership
Seminar buzzwords. That’s all many people think of when they hear “growth mindset”. Fortunately, you know better than that by now… But you probably still have some questions. If you…
Growth Mindset In The Business World
Growth Mindset In The Business World
So far in this chapter, we’ve looked at mindsets as they involve individual but can organizations and businesses have a mindset, too? If the answer to that is yes, how…
Growth Mindset
Growth Mindset
What Is A Mindset? Psychology Today says that a mindset is a “belief that orients the way we handle situations.” Our mindset helps us figure out what is going on…
Coach Interview Series: David Smith
Our main objective here at the National Coach Academy is to enable aspiring coaches to reach their full professional potential. One of the most effective ways to educate students about…
Build and increase your executive presence
Build and increase your executive presence
So, executive presence is not innate. While many factors are vague - who can truly define charisma? - there are some concrete factors involved as well… Executive presence really distills…
Combining The Traits Of Executive Presence
Combining The Traits Of Executive Presence
All of these traits and abilities can be rounded up into 3 distinct categories: Character Style Substance Your character is who you are, your innermost self. It is made up…
8 Traits Of Executive Presence
8 Traits Of Executive Presence
Leaders will all command respect in different ways and executive presence is much the same. While executive presence is a skill that can be learned, there are certain traits that…
Executive presence
Executive presence
Many of the factors that set leaders apart are core personality traits. If you are in a position of leadership, it’s likely that you have displayed these traits and they…
How Leaders Utilize Executive Coaching for Better Business Acumen and Organizational Development
How Leaders Utilize Executive Coaching for Better Business Acumen and Organizational Development
While it’s imperative your executive coach can help you develop self-awareness and lead you down the path to continuous self-development, there’s one element that’s equally crucial… Your coach needs to…
How Executive Coaching Can Teach Emotional Intelligence
How Executive Coaching Can Teach Emotional Intelligence
As a leader, your personal behavior and emotions can directly impact business results. If you’re a leader ready to commit to executive coaching, chances are both your behavior and emotions…
10 Ways Executive Coaching Can Help Hone Effective Communication
10 Ways Executive Coaching Can Help Hone Effective Communication
Clear and effective communication underpins the running of any successful organization. If you’re in an executive role, communication takes on many forms. Mastering the art will give you a precious…
How Trailblazing Tech Companies Use Executive Coaching To Stay One Step Ahead
How Trailblazing Tech Companies Use Executive Coaching To Stay One Step Ahead
Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can. — Tom Landry The rapid pace and the quickly changing face of business today…
New Leaders Council-Atlanta ” Work-Life-Balance
New Leaders Council-Atlanta ” Work-Life-Balance
Work- Life-Balance is, at best, an elusive ideal and at worst a complete myth according to the Harvard Business Review. I do believe it is attainable. The idea of…
Executive Coaching – 2016 is the year for to achieve the results you always wanted to experience.
Executive Coaching – 2016 is the year for to achieve the results you always wanted to experience.
Do you want to nail this years projections? Is your business scaling this year and you want to focus on the processes with your goals? Are you that business person…
Secrets to Achievement and Change
Secrets to Achievement and Change
Do you have something you want to change or achieve in your life? Maybe you'd like to... => Start a business => Find new love => Get a new career…
The secret to getting more out of your team.
The secret to getting more out of your team.
If you want to get more out of your team for any of these reasons: => Because the number of people on your team has been reduced and yet…
1 in 6 Married Men are on Ashley Madison
1 in 6 Married Men are on Ashley Madison
1 in 6 Married Men are on Ashley Madison website. Marriage is one of the toughest jobs to do, according to a friend, who has been married for twenty…
Executive Coaching- Leadership, Behaviors and Change
Executive Coaching- Leadership, Behaviors and Change
Organizational leadership is serious business. Leaders impact the climate, culture and environment of their organizations. Organizational leadership behaviors have a direct influence on actions in the work environment that enable…
Coaching: Strategy for Achievement and Change
Coaching: Strategy for Achievement and Change
Do you have something you want to change or achieve in your life? Maybe you'd like to... Start a business Find a new love Get a new career…
” I Speak Life Coaching” Atlanta Solution Based Coaching
” I Speak Life Coaching” Atlanta Solution Based Coaching
‘I SPEAK LIFE COACHING’ OFFERS SOLUTION BASED COACHING AND ANGER MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS FOR EXECUTIVES AND PLAIN FOLKS Posted on July 6, 2015 People often think about doing a lot of…
“You Just Don’t Understand” WORKSHOP
“You Just Don’t Understand” WORKSHOP
June 6th, 13th and 20th 2015. 11am - 1pm
CYBER MONDAY: “Year-End Tune-Up” Get 25% OFF Life Coaching Sessions
CYBER MONDAY: “Year-End Tune-Up” Get 25% OFF Life Coaching Sessions
Check out our latest promotion! The "Year-End Tune-Up" is the perfect way to jump start your 2015 Goals. Reserve your package today!
Oprah’s “The Life You Want To Live”
Oprah’s “The Life You Want To Live”
Oprah has created a phenomenal eight-city tour this summer. Women and some men are filling stadiums to see and experience her and her team of self-help guru's. Those who are…
For Sisters Only, V-103 Atlanta and Mo Ivory/Mo Knows
For Sisters Only, V-103 Atlanta and Mo Ivory/Mo Knows
For Sisters Only, Atlanta GA, Radio Station V-103 Me with Mo Ivory from V-103. I was really happy to bring I Speak Life Coaching to the masses. During the event,…
I Know What You Did This Summer
I Know What You Did This Summer
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpfjXmN4-Rk Well it's the last week of summer which means its getting time to put the boat away, send the kids to school, get the grill ready for tailgating, and…
Tech Firms Dell, and Google uses coaches for young CEOs.
Tech Firms Dell, and Google uses coaches for young CEOs.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIiwAcnSN1g These stats are from a Stanford University/The Miles Group survey released this month, which asked 200 CEOs, board directors, and other senior executives questions about how they receive and…
Your Apology Is Accepted
Your Apology Is Accepted
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuZIs4n4QWs&list=PLaETCkw7w_Q8bYFQWk6UqxCeFQjtIVBOn We have all been in a position where we had to apologize. The dreaded act of confronting ourselves with our own bad behavior is never easy but it is…
Dream Big: A Motivational Moment
Dream Big: A Motivational Moment
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-jwWYX7Jlo Today, take a few moments to think about your life. In this fast paced world, where everything is available to us in an instant, it is getting harder and…
Happy Father’s Day Special Message
Happy Father’s Day Special Message
Hello Friends!!! It is time to celebrate Father's Day. The hallmaark cards are being chosen and gifts are being picked out to be sent on this special and food menu's…
It Is All About You
It Is All About You
Organizations are utilizing various methods to help develop their leaders over long period of times by implementing one-on one mentoring, peer coaching, team and executive coaching. Using coaching for development…
A Bright Future For Executive Coaching – Who Uses Them
A Bright Future For Executive Coaching – Who Uses Them
In today's society coaches are being used in the area of communications, relationships, finances and health. Increasingly, individuals and corporations are utilizing coaches to help address growth and long-term success…
Life Can Be Lonely At The Top
Life Can Be Lonely At The Top
The CEO/Executive is built to make companies run and be profitable. They are responsible for carving out and creating a viable future for the entity or enterprise. Responsibilities include people,…
Memorial Day: Memories How They Linger
Memorial Day: Memories How They Linger
Happy Memorial Day!!! This holiday is about reflecting, remembering, taking a pause, and contemplating. As young children we looked forward to the games, food and playing outdoors with family and…
Can A Life Coach Iyanla, Fix Your Life?
Can A Life Coach Iyanla, Fix Your Life?
Each Saturday many people around the globe tune into "Iyanla, Fix My Life on OWN the Oprah Winfrey Network. We have a front row seat as she indulges our curiosity…
How To Create The Ultimate Relationship
How To Create The Ultimate Relationship
Tony Robbins is using powerful tools to help us in our relationships. Relationships are complicated because sometimes we enter them with out a clarity about intimacy, emotional needs and spiritual…
No More Spanks or Squeezing In That Gut!! This is Your Year
No More Spanks or Squeezing In That Gut!! This is Your Year
Goal Setting and Success Happy New Year, we are excited about what the future holds for you. you ready to move forward with the dreams and hopes you have set…
How To Get Money, Love and Personal Power?
How To Get Money, Love and Personal Power?
We are on a journey toward greatness. In this New Year, we hear all about resolutions and revolutions and commercials around weight loss . All of us love those messages…
Good Relationship Advice: Life Coaching: Ask For What you Want
Good Relationship Advice: Life Coaching: Ask For What you Want
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEzemvfVzG0&feature=plcp Relationships are here to help us grow and expand in our lives. If you want to know more about who you are and what you are made of then…
Getting Unstuck – How To Keep Moving Forward Despite Adversity
Getting Unstuck – How To Keep Moving Forward Despite Adversity
This living your best life stuff is not tougher than I thought it would be. There are days when I feel like I’m doing great work and then there are…
Atlanta Life Coach Share Ideas For Fall Goal Setting
Atlanta Life Coach Share Ideas For Fall Goal Setting
Planting Good Seeds And Setting Goals In The Fall For Your Harvest httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-HZYrK9PjA&feature=plcp Hi everyone. In this video, I would like to send a personal Fall greeting to all of…
Atlanta Anger Management – 5 Ways To Deal With Anger
Atlanta Anger Management – 5 Ways To Deal With Anger
Anger can be managed and it can lead to a more positive outcome for all involved. As the stories of athletes , anger and abuse continues, I hope these few…
How To Smack Failure In The Face And Win
How To Smack Failure In The Face And Win
Executive Life Coaching Atlanta Style Just what can you do right here as well as now? In my work as an executive life coach based in Atlanta, GA, I coach…
Life Coach Atlanta Case Study Dealing With Change
Life Coach Atlanta Case Study Dealing With Change
The recent upheaval with Peyton Manning being traded by the Indianapolis Colts left many shocked. Although some people saw it coming, there were others including Payton who may have not.…
Part 2 – Online Coaching Around Manhood and Defining It For Ourselves
Part 2 – Online Coaching Around Manhood and Defining It For Ourselves
Defining Manhood For Ourselves - Life Coaching Exercise Hi everyone. Here's the 2nd part of our series on manhood and defining masculinity. If you haven't reviewed part 1 of this…
Part 1 – Coaching Around Manhood
Part 1 – Coaching Around Manhood
As someone passionate about life coaching and about where I live work play it's not often that I can turn off the lenses and the way in which I see…
What Is A Life Coach And What Do Life Coaches Do
What Is A Life Coach And What Do Life Coaches Do
As an Atlanta-based Executive Life Coach, my goal is to help you get from point A to point B. What is a life coach? We can tell you what it…