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To Face Uncertainty, Follow the Anxiety

The work of leadership is to show up to the moment, and both hold fast to the values and vision of the organization while also remaining nimble and flexible enough to meet that moment authentically. In these times of great change, where so much…
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Change Is Inevitable, How to Make it Tolerable

For years, I walked around telling people how much I liked change. I bore easily and tire of maintaining things. I like newness and the spark of building something for the first time or transforming things for the better. Truth is, I loved changes…
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What Gets You in the Door, Won’t Keep You in the Room: A Reckoning with Burnout

Burnout is rarely a personal failure. More often, it is a signal that the way work is structured, decisions are made, and success is defined is no longer sustainable. The grit that builds an organization in its early stages can quietly become the very thing that exhausts the leader who built it.
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By M E Clarke Consulting
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Your Leadership Matters

Your leadership still matters. Your presence, your care, and the way you tend to your organization and team matter. In fact, they matter more than ever. Yes, action is needed, but it may not be the action you think. Often, what is most needed…

Action in Stillness

When the clock struck midnight on January 1, 2026, I was sound asleep. I woke the next morning in a new year, expecting to feel different. Our household had been taken down by the flu over the year-end holidays, and we were only just beginning…

Creating Brave Spaces

Adapted from Beth Strano’s poem “Brave Space” There is no such thing as a “safe space.” At least, not in the way we sometimes wish it could be: a place free from friction, discomfort, conflict, or missteps. A place where no one says…
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By M E Clarke Consulting
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Significance and Value

Have you ever spent time looking at individual grains of sand up close? Microscopically - wow! Even to the naked eye, they are remarkably different and beautiful. All together with the other grains of sand, they make up the beach. None of them…

Knowing, Not Knowing, and Inner Knowing: A Leadership Practice for Uncertain Times

The Emerging of a Framework by Meghan Clarke What if the most powerful leadership tool you have isn’t a new strategy, a bold vision, or a five-year plan but the way you orient yourself in uncertain times? Over the past few years, I’ve…
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Lessons in Letting Go

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.” ~ Eckhart Tolle In the spring of 2021, I said yes to the opportunity of a lifetime: linking arms with Meghan to step into the heart-centered…
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Surmounting the Job Hunt: Anecdotes of Home and Work

I am watching the sun set on La Jolla Shores beach for the first time in over ten years. I moved into my studio apartment 17 days ago, and I slowly exhale the salty ocean air, relieved at the thought that my new bed—albeit cheap, inflatable,…

Somersault 2.0: Stick the Landing

Growth often feels like a somersault — a moment where we leap, invert, and find ourselves briefly disoriented. Learning new things requires us to step into not knowing. But equally important is what happens in between those somersaults —…

Redefining Imposter Syndrome

Imposter syndrome shows up quietly – even in people who are deeply capable. It doesn’t discriminate by age, title, or industry. And it doesn’t always signal inadequacy. Sometimes, it’s simply the ache of growth. When we’re learning…