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11/24/2025

Telling yourself to "be a better leader" won't work. Your brain needs to know WHY it matters.
When behavior change is tied to identity and values (not just outcomes), You're 3X more likely to sustain it.

Saying, "I value growth so I'm practicing feedback to help my team develop." Reminds you why any discomfort or challenge is worth it - it is all about alignment with your values.

Try this: Before your next change, ask yourself, "which of my values does this serve?"

Friday FAQ: Isn't treating everyone the same enough? Why do we need DEI?No. You’re talking equality - everyone gets the ...
11/21/2025

Friday FAQ:
Isn't treating everyone the same enough? Why do we need DEI?

No. You’re talking equality - everyone gets the same everything - and we know humans aren’t good at that. What we really want is equity - giving everyone what they NEED to succeed.

Example: Giving everyone glasses wether they need them or not is equality. Giving someone glasses who needs them to read and someone else access to audio reader so they can read is equity. Same outcomes, different support.

We have to intentionally build in systems, practices, and policies to encourage the good intentions (and bad habits) of real humans. KAMacLean Consulting can help.

A lot of folks still don't understand quite what I do. It seems like a lot of different things, but truth be told it is ...
11/17/2025

A lot of folks still don't understand quite what I do. It seems like a lot of different things, but truth be told it is all interconnected.

After 30+ years coaching leaders across six continents, here's what connects everything I do: helping leaders lead with both heart AND clarity.

Swipe through to see how we might work together:

🎯 Leadership Development Coaching
1:1 and team coaching for managers and executives who want to strengthen communication, lead diverse teams, and navigate change without burning out.

🎤 Public Speaking Coaching
Transform presentation anxiety into authentic confidence—whether you're prepping for a keynote, board meeting, or team presentation.

🌍 Culture Transformation Consulting
Stop losing good people. I help organizations reduce turnover, embed DEIJB practices, and create workplaces where people actually want to stay.

📖 NEW: Leading with Heart and Clarity Workbook
69-page interactive workbook with the frameworks I use with Fortune 500s and nonprofits worldwide. $57 • Instant download

My approach blends neuroscience, growth mindset, trauma-informed practices, and 30+ years of real-world experience. No cookie-cutter solutions—just practical tools that work for you.

Woman-owned • Disability-owned business
Based in SF Bay Area | Working globally

Ready to talk about working together?
🔗 www.KimberlyAMacLean.com

Questions? Drop them in the comments or send me a message.

11/17/2025

You say your values are X, Y, Z.
But your calendar is filled with A, B, C.
That gap is where burnout is lit and grows.

Your brain craves congruence. When your actions don't align with your values, you experience cognitive dissonance - which your brain registers as stress.

Leaders are you aligned? Is your team? There are ways to improve that gap of value and actions.

11/14/2025

It’s that time of year when teams start planning how to celebrate — and many folks are ready for something more meaningful than another bar hang or potluck lit by fluorescent lights.

If your team needs connection, laughter, and a refreshing way to close out the year, I’m offering joyful, play-based workshops that build community and lasting skills.
If this sounds like what your group needs, I’d love to chat. 💛

Friday FAQ: Why do our "diversity hires" keep leaving?Welp, you just answered your own question. If you're struggling wi...
11/14/2025

Friday FAQ:
Why do our "diversity hires" keep leaving?

Welp, you just answered your own question. If you're struggling with retention, the problem isn't the people leaving, it's the culture they are fleeing that needs the work.

I wish more organizations understood building healthy culture is preventative. It can save you time, money, and the greatest resource of all, talented people. Don't be afraid to ask yourself the tough questions about your culture and get help from someone like me that can build systems, call out problems, and offer solutions to support healthier, thriving, work cultures.

My calendar tells me it is World Kindness Day. My wish for you is that today you find ways and opportunities to be kind ...
11/13/2025

My calendar tells me it is World Kindness Day. My wish for you is that today you find ways and opportunities to be kind to yourself. These times are bananas and to keep on fighting the good fight we need to find our joy, give ourselves grace, and remember we must be healthy to continue the march for justice in whatever form it takes for us. I made this little list - choose one, choose them all, use it as a Bingo challenge graph...

11/12/2025

I’m so grateful for every person who chooses to support small creators — especially those of us doing this work solo.

As a disabled woman and longtime consultant, every purchase goes directly toward helping me keep creating, teaching, and sharing resources that make leadership more human.

If you’ve been thinking about getting the workbook, now’s a wonderful time — and your support genuinely makes a difference.

💛 Thank you for choosing small, independent, and heart-led businesses this season.

Folks are telling me they're having a visceral reaction to this image remembering terrible experiences, sometimes from y...
11/11/2025

Folks are telling me they're having a visceral reaction to this image remembering terrible experiences, sometimes from years ago, that feel charged.

If you're one of these people my workbook is for YOU! It has a whole section that is intended to help avoid those sorts of messy decision making processes that end in a total lose lose for everyone. It offers real ways to define decision processes, flows, and rationale.

We've all felt the decision dying on the vine, it clearly leaves its mark on us. Let's do the work to not only never feel that way again, but to ensure we don't inflict that harm on others we lead.

"Leading with Heart and Clarity: A Practical Workbook for Being a Human, Leading Other Humans" available now with $10 to the first 50 folks who order using code "EARLY50". Go to Linktree in bio to purchase.

By buying this workbook you're not only supporting a women owned, disability owned small business, you're also setting yourself up to be the best leader you can be!

11/10/2025

One of the reasons we start all of my work asking folks to review their own values and their organization's practiced core values is because neuroscience tells us that change is more "sticky" when it is tied to our values.

11/10/2025

The NYT asked us if Women Ruined the Workplace (then asked if Feminine Vices and/or Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?)

So, ladies, femmes, theys, and thems? Are we ruining the workplace?

Are we to blame for everything from office dysfunction to the decline of “professionalism”?

I made a video — part satire, part truth-telling — about what it really looks like to be a woman “ruining” the workplace.

Equitable pay, being valued, and not being interrupted? For me, it looks like helping organizations build cultures where people - all people - actually thrive.

Because as more voices enter the conversation, the cracks show — and that’s not collapse; it’s opportunity.

Through leadership coaching, culture strategy, and inclusive design, I help organizations transform values like equity and belonging into everyday practice - moving from blame to belonging.

I’d love to know: what’s one way you'd like someone like me to help YOU "ruin" AKA improve your workplace?

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