Accelus Insights:
The Leadership Narrative

By Barbara Stewart, PCC, ACTC | Accelus Partners    The decision should have been made two levels down. Instead, it came back to you. Again.  Maybe it was framed as a question that needed your judgment. Maybe it arrived as a conflict between two managers who could not resolve it themselves. Maybe it was work that should have moved forward...

There is a premise at the center of my work: we can only see others as clearly as we are willing to see ourselves.  I didn’t arrive at that through a book or a training. I arrived at it the way most things worth knowing arrive: slowly, through experience, through the people I’ve had the privilege of...

By Barbara Stewart, PCC, ACTC | Accelus Partners  We were about to run the first session of a new leadership development program, and the room was going to be full of people who may or may not have known each other but definitely didn’t know us.  That mattered more than the agenda...

Recently, I worked with a senior leader whose next promotion had stalled.  Two years earlier, she had accepted her current role because it was framed as the bridge to something bigger: a larger leadership position that had been outlined, discussed, and all but promised. She had done the work since,...

In a team development session, two people in attendance had each decided the other was difficult to work with. Over time, they had found ways to avoid each other. They scheduled around each other, routed work through other people, and divided projects in ways that looked like thoughtful delegation but...

When a Fortune 250 organization recognized that strong technical talent alone would not sustain future growth, it invested in developing the next generation of finance leaders. Through a structured leadership development program for managers across Accounting, Audit, and Tax, the organization strengthened leadership capability, improved cross-functional collaboration, and began building...