by Pam Hernandez | Nov 19, 2025 | Corporate Culture, Leaders, Leadership, Listening, Objectivity
From Knowing the Answer to Asking Better Questions Physicians, executives, and high achievers often find themselves in leadership roles because they were the ones with the answers. Expertise was the currency of success. But what happens when the very strength that...
by Pam Hernandez | Oct 30, 2025 | Career, Conflict, Corporate Culture, Leaders, Leadership, Productivity, Well-being
Busyness Isn’t a Badge of Honor When was the last time you answered, “How are you?” with “Busy!” and felt oddly proud of it? In modern leadership culture, busyness has become a proxy for worth. Packed calendars, late nights, rapid responses, and endless action are...
by Pam Hernandez | Aug 26, 2025 | Boundaries, Coaching, Conflict, Corporate Culture, Leadership, Listening, Strengths
Avoiding Hard Conversations Is a Leadership Risk Many leaders spend their days managing strategy, performance, and people—yet avoid one of the most powerful leadership tools at their disposal: difficult conversations. Conflict avoidance isn’t about being kind. It’s...
by Pam Hernandez | Nov 17, 2024 | Assessments, Corporate Culture, Leadership, Leadership Coaching, Personal Growth, Physician's Academy, The Leadership Circle
EXPLOSIVE GROWTH. CHANGE. DISRUPTION. CRISIS. COMPLEXITY. These are words that were once used to describe rare, high-impact events like wars or economic downturns. Today, they have become part of our everyday vocabulary—used to signify both imminent threats...
by Pam Hernandez | Jul 14, 2019 | Coaching, Corporate Culture, Front Page, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Coaching
I was reading about an interesting personality trait called “intellectual humility.” Intellectual humility is defined as, “an awareness that one’s beliefs may be wrong.” Researchers at Duke University did a number of studies. In one study, participants read essays...
by Pam Hernandez | Jun 17, 2019 | Coaching, Corporate Culture, Front Page, Leadership, Personal Growth, Relationships
In diversity and inclusion work, one of the hardest concepts for people to grasp is the difference between intent and impact. Often, when we’re told that something we did or said was hurtful, demeaning, discriminatory etc., we’ll respond sincerely, “That wasn’t my...
