
What’s the most out-there perk that you offer employees? Do perks motivate them? by Shelley-Ann Pieterse
As the only employee, I negotiate my own benefits package. The boss is surprisingly reasonable. My perk is freedom. I set my own hours, go

As the only employee, I negotiate my own benefits package. The boss is surprisingly reasonable. My perk is freedom. I set my own hours, go

Hybrid is simply how my business works. Most of my clients aren’t in the same city as me, so the bulk of our coaching happens

No. My work depends on real presence, the pauses, the tone, the things a screen already loses, let alone a headset. I’m not anti-tech. In

I wasn’t coaching yet when COVID hit. I was still consulting, sitting inside leadership teams while we all made impossible calls with no precedent to

I expect boards to stop treating leadership sustainability as an HR initiative and start treating it as a governance issue. Director surveys already show the

There’s a belief in (some) leadership circles that great leaders should have all the answers. In my experience, the opposite is closer to true. The

I don’t think expertise is a credential you earn once and then carry forever. Mine comes from two places: two decades leading complex transformation and

My list mixes leadership, health, psychology and mindset: A Bit of Optimism, On Purpose, The Dr. Hyman Show, Mel Robbins, Re:Thinking, plus a couple of

My rule starts with one question: is this the reason clients hire me? If not, it usually goes. But there’s a second filter I only

My honest answer: I don’t really market. What works is trust and consistency. Most of my clients come through word of mouth, from people I’ve