By Cloé Caron

Do you know how much your emotions play a key role in engaging your teams at work? As leaders, we often underestimate the impact our emotional reactions can have on our team. However, mastering emotions is one of the most powerful tools leaders use to significantly influence their teams. This phenomenon is known as emotional contagio...

By Cloé Caron

As part of 30 interviews with exceptional women leaders that I conducted for my book, Dare to Empower/Osez vous propulser, I had the chance to chat with Salwa Salek, Chief Diversity, Equity and of inclusion at Desjardins on the importance of reviewing our traditional models to create opportunities, in our companies, for people who ar...

By Cloé Caron

To Dare: To have the courage to do something difficult regardless of obstacles. 

This year, I Dare to coach/support 1 million women across the world. It really scares me to write these words, it's so crazy. But committing myself, I know, will force me to find ways to get there. Certainly, I will definitely need your help.  

For mor...

By Cloé Caron

Whether it is during your team meetings, your management committees or your board meetings, how can you know that you are really leveraging the collective intelligence of the group? I suggest that you answer the following questions by referring to the committee or council of your choice. 

TRUE or FALSE? 

1.You spend more time in pr...

By Cloé Caron

For two years, with working remotely, many of us have developed what I call a “social laziness”. We are self-sufficient, even from the comfort of our own home. We have lost the reflex to make the effort required to socialize and "go out into the world". Back in the presence of team meetings, we find ourselves faced with a real challe...

By Cloé Caron

Whether it is with friends, family or at work, it is always important to develop bonds of trust between us. I had the chance to chat with Xavier Mufraggi, the CEO of Young Presidents' Organization who told me about his methods to obtain the best working environment possible. The intimacy of conversations and a good coaching methodolo...

 By Anik Desjardins, CHRP, ACC, certified coach

Do you sometimes feel that your team meetings are less productive than you would like? That they generate little interaction, little creativity, few concrete actions or decisions, especially when some of the team members work remotely? Do you sometimes feel like there are formalities, courtesies and ...

Recently, I had the privilege to be interviewed by the one and only Jack Canfield. Jack holds a Guinness World Record for having seven books on the New York Times best-seller list at the same time. He is best known for his Chicken Soup for the Soul series.  We talked about leadership, culture of Empowerment, USC and Coaching. 

We also discussed th...

By Cloé Caron, PCC, certified coach & Anik Desjardins, CHRP, ACC, certified coach

We all want this return! We can't wait to see each other again, to talk to each other again, to meet - and I almost dare not say, to hug each other. At the same time, we wonder how we're going to leave our comfort, our jogging pants, our flexibility and our distances...

 By Anik Desjardins, CHRP, ACC, certified coach

Can love have a place in leadership? Many believe that these two words cannot co-exist. Too risky, too strong, too promiscuous, not professional, not timely. We believe that to be a manager, we must maintain an emotional distance from our employees to make good decisions and to manage effectively. Ex...