Lesley Antoun

Strategy development: Two Pitfalls

Posted by Lesley Antounon March 5, 2021in UncategorizedLeave a comment

In a strategy development process, I have found that participants are most often challenged by two things: A focus on their area of expertise only; andA propensity to revert to operational discussions. These challenges are pitfalls to a good strategy…

Heading into 2021: Lesley’s Reflections

Posted by Lesley Antounon January 4, 2021January 4, 2021in Careers & labour, Leadership, StrategyLeave a comment

Happy New Year! For me, the holiday break was a time for rest and reflection. My top three reflections are about vision, investment in myself as THE most reliable way to being able to create value for others, and mindset.…

Building Better Boards

Posted by Lesley Antounon October 5, 2020January 4, 2021in Leadership, StrategyLeave a comment

Through my work with Boards over the past several months, many of the same themes have emerged: lack of clarity around the Board's role, friction between leadership and the Board, disconnects between vision and strategy (even among Board members), questions…

Women Rising!

Posted by Lesley Antounon July 17, 2020July 17, 2020in Careers & labour, LeadershipLeave a comment

Excellent session by @coachingourselves yesterday. Highly recommend their seminars.

Dealing with employee burnout

Posted by Lesley Antounon July 3, 2020January 28, 2021in Careers & labour, LeadershipLeave a comment

My strategy development mandates often evole to leadership and communications coaching. Utimately even the best strategies are undermined when people don't raise the bar on those skills. When a team member is distressed, they can't perform, and will certainly struggle in carrying out any work, never mind strategic work. Which brings me to this post, which I wrote as we were about four months into the pandemic.