Change and growth don’t happen by accident—they begin with the right questions. Whether you’re coaching a client, leading a team, or reflecting on your own next steps, thoughtful questions can spark clarity and open new possibilities.

In this post, I’m sharing 8 coaching questions designed to inspire meaningful change and lasting growth. Use them to deepen reflection, challenge assumptions, and move forward with confidence.

Points of transition provide us the powerful opportunity to pause and reflect, to consider what’s working and what’s not. Get some fresh insight with three tools to help make your reflection times more meaningful and strategic.

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Unhealthy stress is a major challenge for workplaces, schools, and homes across the world. As leaders, we need proven stress relief strategies to effectively self-manage and to provide support for those around us.

Read on to learn the top research-based strategies to support healthy stress management.

Cultivating a growth mindset isn’t just about positive thinking—it’s about creating intentional habits that support learning and resilience. Self-assessment offers a practical way to pause, reflect, and see where growth is possible.

In this post, we’ll explore how reflection tools and self-assessment strategies can help you (or your team) strengthen a growth mindset and make meaningful progress toward your goals.

Asking questions is a seemingly simple part of our everyday conversations. However, the types of questions we ask can make a big impact in shaping our perceptions, experiences, and relationships. The topic, type, tone, and timing of our questions definitely matter.

So, what makes some questions better than others?

Self-assessments play an important role in helping us understand and articulate our uniqueness, gain empathy for our colleagues, family, and friends, and speak a common vocabulary with teammates. The variety of options can be energizing, but it can also be confusing to understand the distinctions, and to know which assessment will help meet your specific needs.

If you are pursuing personal or professional development — for yourself or your team — consult this quick guide to maximize your return on investment.

According to recent research conducted by Google, employees desire managers who can skillfully coach them— and this desire ranks as a top rated (no. 1) manager behavior.

What is your capacity for coaching others to greater growth and discovery?

Change starts with reflection. Before taking the next step in your growth journey, it’s important to understand your current potential and readiness — and what might get in your way.

In this post, we explore 3 essential questions to evaluate your potential for progress, helping you gain clarity, focus your efforts, and move forward with confidence.

Change starts with the right questions.

As a coach or leader, knowing how to guide reflection and spark insight can make all the difference. In this post, we explore 7 powerful coaching questions designed to inspire change, help clients see new perspectives, and take meaningful action toward their goals. Whether you’re working in leadership, executive coaching, or personal development, these questions provide a practical framework for meaningful conversations that lead to real growth.

When derailers and distractors threaten my resolve, I have to intentionally remember the importance of creating consistent habits, that this is the stage in which something you do with devotion literally becomes a part of who you are.

What barriers keep you from building sustainable habits?

What if experimentation — to find the right combination of strategies — is an essential part of growth and change in our personal and professional lives? What if one reason we often get derailed is because we are stuck on a strategy that isn’t working?

Which combination of strategies will empower you to successfully achieve your growth goals?

In your community of friends, family, and colleagues, who inspires you to develop into the best version of yourself?  Who is willing to give you honest feedback, support your growth, and keep you motivated? 

When I think back on the most profound growth I have experienced, I simultaneously recall the community that surrounded me in those critical moments – friends, family, classmates, or colleagues who invested in my development.

I can recall countless visions that I have had for personal or professional growth, yet at some point my follow-through faltered. Consider, for example, the classic New Year’s resolutions that many of us set faithfully every year. Perhaps you start out with a new yoga mat, water bottle and running shoes. But three weeks later you're back to the old routines, tethered to your desk, and hunched over a keyboard, while your yoga mat gets buried in a corner of your office…

What personal change initiative is your current priority? Perhaps you find yourself in the midst of a major change related to a career or life transition. Or, you may have in mind some important growth opportunities related to your everyday habits, relationships, and work.

What’s your process for creating a vision for the growth and change you want to see?

Think of your most recent experience building a new habit. How did it go? What was most difficult about it making a new change successful? Was it the inertia of old routines? The impossibility of imagining something new for yourself? Or the terror of possible failure?