Alessandra Wall, Ph.D. - C-Suite Women's Coach

Fit For Purpose Leadership 6 Special Edition delivers practical advice on business and leadership tailor-made for pandemic, lockdown, stay home, remote working conditions. 24 leaders share their best advice on working under challenging conditions.

17 experts share their best advice on love, romance and lasting relationships for ambitious, time-poor, professionals.

40% of Americans suffer from some form of anxiety, and the numbers for the rest of the Western world aren’t much different. It’s no wonder. We have made our lives so busy and frantic that we’ve lost the ability to make time for and take care of ourselves. We’re overbooked, overworked, and over stimulated!

The smartest, most driven and successful women I know think they have to be everything to everyone in order to stay on top and on track with their ambitions. This kind of thinking… Show more

40% of Americans suffer from some form of anxiety, and the numbers for the rest of the Western world aren’t much different. It’s no wonder. We have made our lives so busy and frantic that we’ve lost the ability to make time for and take care of ourselves. We’re overbooked, overworked, and over stimulated!

The smartest, most driven and successful women I know think they have to be everything to everyone in order to stay on top and on track with their ambitions. This kind of thinking might have helped them push hard, but in the long run, all they get is burnt out.

Truth: If you want to be as successful as you deserve to be, then you’re going to have to put yourself first. It’s time to get back to what’s most’ important; YOU!

What if you could get there in 4 weeks or less without guilt or stress? Show less

In the world of business diversity is a HUGE agenda item. Companies are bending over backward trying to build more gender and culturally diverse teams. It makes sense:

If many of us struggle to speak up, many more struggle to actually listen up and hear one another.

Regular contributor to Be Yourself publication on Medium. Be Yourself focuses on

More than living, thriving.
Thrive Global is an Ariana Huffington publication.

The idea that you will just wake up one day and know exactly what’s going to make your heart sing for the rest of your life is a crippling myth.

One that has left so many people either feeling inadequate — they’re just not really that passionate about anything yet — or thinking that they have missed their one opportunity to live a fulfilling and joyful life.

How much time do you spend in front of a screen on any given day? One hour, maybe two? Think again…

You can feel it, the oppressive, overwhelming angst of four walls closing in on you. Except it’s not walls, it’s life; life itself seems to be coming in, bearing down and suffocating you. The questions swirl in your head: Is this it? Is there nothing more to look forward to? Will I be doing the same thing day in and day out? What’s the meaning of it? Where do I go from here?

What's the difference between right and right for you?

What is it that optimistic people see that the rest of us don’t get? How is it possible that a pessimist and optimist can experience the world so differently? The answer is perspective. What if you could develop some of the care-free, stress-free perspectives of your optimistic friends? Would you do it?

Do you know why you do the things you do, the way you do them? I’ll let you in on a secret… your behaviors are directly linked to your feelings and your thoughts. Actually, most of what we do is designed to reassure us and reinforce our perception of the world and ourselves.

A dream, a resolution or a desire is something we would like to achieve, whereas a goal is something we are working to achieve; it’s the distinction between passive and active engagement

When we choose to adopt new and healthier dietary habits, we give up more than health issues and unwanted fat. We give up foods and practices that have shaped our identity, our histories and our culture. Grief is a natural by-product of the losses we face when we make changes...