Category: The Restart Diaries
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In leadership and teams, burnout is framed as a performance issue. The signs we often recognize are: energy drops, decisions take longer, or a strange shift in engagement. As a result, organizations develop strategies to respond. Leaders are expected to reprioritize, delegate more effectively, or enhance their time management. While these recommendations are helpful, they…
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Every organization, just like a person, a family, or a community, needs boundaries and healthy limits to grow. The bigger the company, the greater the need for limits, especially as the organization grows. Written by Cristina Popescu “Boundaries are the property line that tells others where you end, and they start, and tells you where…
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By Rashied Ilahi, Co-ownerCentered People We love talking about vision, speed, disruption, and growth, yet almost never about stability And yet, stability is where everything truly starts. I didn’t learn this from books. I learned it the hard way. What Building Centered People Taught Me When we fi the Centered People, we didn’t lack ideas.We…
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Why Every New Beginning Requires an Inner Reset First Written by Ana-Maria van der Salm “Sometimes the hardest part of starting over isn’t the change, it’s realizing you’ve outgrown who you used to be.” Before you start something new, start with yourself. Looking back on my recent years in the Netherlands, after living in the…
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By Stephany Bernabela, Co-Founder of Centered People People often ask me, “Steph, how do I build a successful business without burning out?”My answer is always the same: start at home. Not because your private life belongs in every meeting, but because your family, culture, and early experiences shape the leader you are today. Whether you…
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Whatever you do, do not separate family from leadership and your work. Especially when you go up the ladder in your career. Because the higher you go, the lonelier it gets. And trust me when I say that lonely people do not last long in leading positions. I’ve been curious about a phenomenon lately, and…
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Have you ever noticed how many books are available on leadership? A 2015 estimate found over 57,136 leadership books on Amazon alone. That is 10 years ago. I could not find a new statistic yet. Can you imagine how much information we have on leadership, and yet, many organizations struggle with leadership? Leadership is so…
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“A leader’s influence begins the moment people know you truly care. Skill may impress them, but care is what gives you access to their heart.” For a long time, I moved through my days with a focus on tasks, deadlines, and responsibilities. I cared, of course, but most of my energy went into getting things…
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Emotional Echoes at Work: How Unresolved Pain Shapes Leadership and Culture Have you ever felt like you carry emotional echoes with you—echoes that sound different, sometimes louder, at work? During one coaching session, a client told me: “It’s like I hear myself from a few years ago, but in the background. Like the sound comes…
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You know when you know things, but only theoretically, then comes a time when you get to experience it yourself, or someone very close to you experiences it? It’s been like that with STS in my case. For years, I’ve read about it, I studied it, and even had exams from it, but all the…