My dad taught me my word was “bond.” When you’re a great salesman and you’ve got a lot of charisma, you’re very close to “Bulls***-McGee.”...

I think generally people in kind of management science, they call them leadership thinkers, are moving away from the idea of management because it sort of...

One of the most challenging interviews for me to ever get I actually lost in the same day, because of this thing that is commonly referred to as “work-life balance”… 

One of the most important things that I’ve realized about habits is that so often people are looking for that magical one-size-fits-all solution – “if I could only figure out the...

We can talk about strategies like great employment brand and bias free recruiting and having strong retention policies, but for me, the biggest impact that...

I had a new book come out on February 29th. The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More and Change the Way You Lead Forever is elegant, compact and is already getting lots...

An oft-quoted statement from acclaimed management consultant Peter Drucker asserts that "culture eats strategy for breakfast." Yet even today, many companies pay more attention to their...

I think that every time we are present in a stressful moment, people respond to us in a different way. They respond to us as someone who is confident and...

"So...tell me what you are NOT good at? What do you need to do better?" The trick question in the interview. Does everyone lie? I certainly used to lie when...

We forget that we are the heroes in our own lives and that we are the main character in our stories. Your name is the one above the title and yet, why is it that so often we...

So much has been written about leadership, I think it is the most prolific topic and we can talk about things like creating a vision and a strategy, or developing followership to bring...

I’m going to try to boil 300 pages down to a few seconds. First, presence is about moments - but somehow it’s come to mean, through the twentieth century, something grander. Something...

As Group Head and General Counsel of TD Bank Group, I'm keenly interested in how women from the legal profession are perceived as leaders.  I recently had the opportunity to speak about...

The difference between someone that thinks they are a business owner and someone that thinks they are an entrepreneur is one of mindset mostly. A business owner looks at...

Closing remarks by Bill Williams and Visual Summaries drawn by Tristan Miller based on the speakers from The Art of Leadeship for Women in Vancouver on April 1, 2016.