Stone as Keynote Speaker at Security LeadHER 2024
Debby Stone was honored to kick off Day 1 of Security LeadHER 2024 as the opening keynote speaker, discussing self-promotion. The event, held in Phoenix, brought together hundreds of…
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Blog Posts, Podcast Links & Novateur News
Insights on leadership, career, coaching and self-promotion.
2024
Stone Featured as Expert on Podcast
Join Debby Stone on the latest episode of “Mastering The Power Skills” podcast with Kathy Dockery where she shares insights on the importance of self-promotion, how to overcome common challenges, and action steps to take for success.
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New Year: New Goals
The new year offers a clean slate. Learn how to reflect on the previous year and use that learning to focus on what you want to achieve in 2024.
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2023
Stone Guest on Fidelis Leadership Podcast
Novateur’s founder, Executive Coach Debby Stone, was a recent guest on the Fidelis Leadership Podcast. Debby and host, Mike Ettore, discussed leadership, coaching and self-promotion. Click…
Read more ›Outplacement Transition Coaching: The Key to the Double Bottom Line for Law Firms
Providing outplacement transition coaching is the key to a firm's financial and reputational bottom lines.
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Do You Suffer from Imposter Syndrome?
Whether you are in the land of self-doubt or suffer from full-blown imposter syndrome, how can you get past your doubts and fears?
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2022
7 Steps for Writing a Blog Post
7 steps for writing a blog post that will take your next post from "blah" to "brilliant!" A free printable resource is included.
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Want to Write More?
In her blog on Highroaders.com, Vicki Flier Hudson recently shared what works for her when it comes to writing. Her tips include where to find inspiration, how to get started, and ways to…
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Coffee with Coaches features Debby Stone
Novateur founder and author, Debby Stone , had the opportunity to speak with Kevin Stafford on the podcast Coffee with Coaches. Debby shares the story of her switch from law practice to…
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Novateur Partners adds Raleigh/Durham Office
Novateur Partners is pleased to announce that in addition to its Atlanta presence, we now have an office in the Raleigh/Durham market. We will continue to serve clients nationwide, and we…
Read more ›One Next Step Podcast features Stone
Novateur founder and author, Debby Stone, had the opportunity to speak about effective self-promotion on the podcast One Next Step.
Read more ›The Power of Yes, And
Harness the power of Yes, And to create an environment in which everyone feels empowered to speak up, share and innovate.
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Lonely at the Top - Combatting Leadership Loneliness
Leadership loneliness can start as soon as a leader moves into a role that requires running a team. Learn strategies to combat feeling lonely at the top.
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Traversing the COVID-19 "Anniversary Effect"
As we mark a year since the pandemic began, you may be feeling a dip. How can leaders traverse the COVID-19 anniversary effect and come out stronger?
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How to Remain Indispensable During COVID-19 and Beyond
EJ Stern will present a one-hour virtual presentation to the Los Angeles Legal Marketing Association on March 16th titled How to Remain Indispensable during COVID-19 and Beyond . This…
Read more ›How Does Being Virtual Affect Your Executive Presence?
Executive presence is the “it” factor for business. Have you considered the impact being virtual has on your executive presence?
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Stone to deliver presentation to ACC-TN
Debby Stone will be delivering a one-hour web presentation to The Association of Corporate Counsel – Tennessee Chapter on February 9 th . The workshop style program is entitled: Building…
Read more ›Interviews to Gather Stakeholder Feedback
Use interviews to gather stakeholder feedback for candid, robust input that will help you develop as a leader.
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2020
Consciously Closing 2020 and Planning a Brighter 2021
A new year is now on the horizon. Use these self-reflection questions for consciously closing 2020 and planning a brighter 2021.
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Five Keys to Develop Your Active Listening Skills
Learn 5 keys to develop your active listening skills so you can build stronger relationships and better understand those you lead.
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Stone featured on "Beyond the Brand"
Debby Stone was recently featured on the podcast "Beyond the Brand" hosted by PR and marketing expert, Dontaye Carter. Debby shares some of her own story and talks about the importance of…
Read more ›Three Keys to Strong Decision-Making
At this volatile time, leaders are called upon to make tough decisions. Learn three keys to strong decision-making that will help you lead with confidence.
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Happy International Coaching Week!
In honor of International Coaching Week, Novateur Partners is offering a 20% discount on any new individual coaching engagement started before May 22, 2020.
Read more ›Stone to Speak about Re-branding during COVID-19
Are you considering how to re-brand your business during COVID-19? Debby Stone will participate in a panel discussion led by Dontaye Carter on May 5th.
Read more ›Finding Silver Linings While Sheltering in Place
Though sheltering in place is challenging, are you finding silver linings? What new habits, practices and ways of being will you carry over after COVID-19?
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Practicing Radical Pandemic Self-Compassion
Who would have thought that we would find ourselves in the position of being shut in our homes nearly 24/7 with no escape from the grim reality surrounding us? Not only is it nearly…
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Tips to Effectively Work from Home
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep the globe, more and more leaders and employees are being encouraged to work from home. How do you transition from an office environment to a…
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How do I lead when things are so uncertain?
The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown our economy and collective health into disarray. As a leader, how do you make decisions in the face of so much uncertainty?
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What's Your Brand Promise?
We all have a brand, whether we have consciously created it by design or whether it has been created for us by default. Everything a leader says, does, does not say or does not do is brand…
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2019
The Keys to Unlocking Your Leadership Potential
Who holds the key to the next step in your career - your boss or you? How a leader and an employer must work in tandem to open the door to new opportunities.
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Finishing Well
How often do we take off our striving hat, our competitor role and simply engage in the present? Dan Sheedy analyzes how pausing to reflect during a recent race benefited him. Read on to see how this mental shift can prove beneficial to leaders in any profession.
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Should I Stay or Should I Go?
As a leader, is it imperative to continually set goals and move forward? Is it ever okay to be content where we are and simply enjoy the present?
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Sheedy Earns Cornell Employment Law Certificate
Dan Sheedy recently earned a Certificate in Employment Law from Cornell University. This certificate is designed to establish a structured framework for analysis of workplace legal issues…
Read more ›Sheedy Earns SPHR Certification
Senior Executive Coach, Dan Sheedy , has earned the SPHR (Senior Professional Human Resources) certification awarded by the Human Resource Certification Institute (HCRI). This designation…
Read more ›We Are What We Do…or Are We?
We are all more than our jobs and our identities are far more complex than our titles. How can you more clearly separate who you are from what you do?
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Your Habits: Are They Serving You?
Habits can either serve you well or keep you stuck in certain mindsets. Learn how to become consciously aware of your patterns and evaluate whether they are having a positive or negative influence on your life and career.
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Self-Reflection and the Wisdom of Leadership Experience
It is our responsibility as leaders to impart our knowledge to those we lead and it is impossible to do that without reflecting on those lessons learned.
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Coaching Tips for Leader Well-Being
Leaders who are resilient are more successful, and while there are certainly no quick fixes for high stress, there are several key concepts that I have found universally helpful for those who may be experiencing burnout, negativity or discontentment.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Vital Link between Feedback and Leadership Growth
“May I give you some feedback?” Those words typically inspire fear and dread for most leaders I work with. We typically associate the word “feedback” so while we all enjoy hearing the…
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Novateur one of Daily Report's Best of 2019
Novateur Partners was voted as one of the best LAWYER/LAW FIRM BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COACHING companies in the Daily Report's Best of 2019. The Daily Report annually ranks Georgia's best…
Read more ›The Art of Self-Promotion featured on Livestrong.com
The Art of Self-Promotion: Tell Your Story, Transform Your Career by Debby Stone was featured on Livestrong.com. In an article titled, “Self-Help Books for Beginners” Stone’s book appears…
Read more ›Building Leadership Resiliency
Recently I delivered a keynote to a group of leaders who are in the midst of tremendous organizational change. At times like these, people are tested. They are asked to reach challenging…
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ICF Members Given Access to Stone’s Program
Debby Stone’s highly rated program from International Coach Federation’s Converge 2017 conference entitled “Build Your Brand by Telling Your Story” will be distributed to all ICF members…
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Sheedy Nominated as Executive Coach of the Year
Dan Sheedy has been nominated as a 2018 Executive Coach of the Year by TurnKey Coaching & Development Solutions. The award signifies that Dan is considered to be an expert in facilitating…
Read more ›Novateur Partners Welcomes Kelly Bergeron
We are pleased to announce that Kelly Bergeron has joined Novateur Partners as a Senior Executive Coach. In addition to her coaching expertise, Kelly brings a rich work history including…
Read more ›Lessons Learned by Slowing Down
I recently had surgery to repair a torn ligament in my right hand. And for those of you who are wondering, yes, I am right handed! After surgery, I went home in a heavy, large bandage that served much like a cast. While bandaged, I had virtually no use of my hand at all.
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2017
2017 eLit Awards Medalist
The Art of Self-Promotion: Tell Your Story, Transform Your Career was an eLit Book Awards 2017 Bronze Medal Recipient in the category of Business/Career/Sales. The eLit Awards is a global…
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A Grown-up Version of Fun
"What do you consider fun?" I posed this question to a client recently in a coaching appointment and she had trouble answering. For most of us, as adults, fun is an elusive concept, and it…
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Positively Delivering Constructive Feedback
We are approaching the season of performance reviews and feedback. If you manage people, you will likely be called upon to evaluate those you lead. How will you deliver feedback? The tone…
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Stone Featured in Podcast - "It Really IS All About Me!"
Debby Stone was recently interviewed by Evelyn Ashley and John Monahon of Trusted Counsel in a podcast entitled “It Really IS All About Me! Tell Your Story & Grow.” In this conversation,…
Read more ›Consciously Creating Your Next Career Chapter
Is the role you are in now the product of a well thought-out career plan or did you arrive at your current position through happenstance? Have you ever given conscious thought to what you…
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Stone Featured in Podcast – “Are You Happy?”
Debby Stone was recently interviewed by Gareth Young in a podcast entitled “Are You Happy?” In this conversation, Debby talks about life and work and offers many practical lessons that…
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Leadership Agility: A Key Component to Career Success
Leadership Agility is a hot concept we have been seeing, hearing and reading more about over the past several years. In today's complex, unpredictable, volatile and fast-paced business…
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2015
Tell Your Story in the Fourth Quarter and Beyond
As the fourth quarter comes to a close all of us have a measure of excitement, angst and transition in our work lives. Year-end sales goals, projects, performance reviews, promotions and…
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The Art of Self-Promotion Now Available
Debby Stone’s book, The Art of Self-Promotion: Tell Your Story, Transform Your Career is now available. Books can be purchased on Amazon in eBook or paperback format. EBooks are also…
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Building Character, Spotlighting Integrity
Character and Integrity rarely grow when everything in life goes our way. Instead it is our response to life’s challenges that forges our character and spotlights our integrity. I used both…
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Realistically Positive: Growth Isn’t Always Linear
As I drove on a stretch of open road the other day listening to Don Henley’s “The Boys of Summer,” I thought about where I am going in my career and in my life. How am I growing, both…
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The Payoff Principle: A Lifetime of Payoffs
Imagine yourself creating a lifetime of payoffs: happiness, success, significance - a life of abundance, both personally and professionally. We all want it! We all want to become producers.…
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The Payoff Principle: On Process
In previous articles - The Payoff Principle: Producers Wanted! , The Payoff Principle: On Purpose , and The Payoff Principle: On Passion , I’ve looked at the power of purpose (the direction…
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The Payoff Principle: On Passion
Don't miss previous parts of this series - The Payoff Principle: Producers Wanted! and The Payoff Principle: On Purpose Once you’ve decided to live a life of purpose and on purpose, you…
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Creating Powerful Life Transitions
Graduation season is drawing to a close. This year, I attended two graduations and know several more students who are moving on from high school or college. Perhaps you, too, have attended…
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The Payoff Principle: On Purpose
Don't miss part one of this series - The Payoff Principle: Producers Wanted! The book, The Payoff Principle by Dr. Alan Zimmerman, begins with the power of purpose (Purpose + Passion +…
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The Payoff Principle: Producers Wanted!
Producers Wanted! How many times have we seen this on signs, in print, or other media? Companies are always searching for people that produce; people that make things happen. Are you a…
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TIME (Part 5): Energy and Your Success Roadmap
Over the past month we have explored success via legs of the table of TIME (Tenacity, Intentionality, Message, and Energy) and the change in mindset required to move from “I need more time”…
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TIME (Part 4): Your Message
In this series, as we move toward getting TIME on our side, we have explored two components: tenacity and intentionality… The question is how do we put these first two components into…
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TIME (Part 3): Intentionality, with Direction
As we change our mindsets in traveling down the road to success, we constantly seek guidance, indications and assurances about our paths, our choices, and our decisions in the desire to…
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TIME (Part 2): First, It’s About Tenacity
A change in mindset is required to move us from “I need more time” to “TIME is on my side” as we travel down the road to success. Tenacity is the first leg in the table of TIME (Tenacity,…
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Success: It’s About TIME!
Across industries and organizations, people say “give me a little time and the success will come.” “Give me a little time and I’ll reach my goals.” More time is an easy solution leadership…
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#Dearme: Mining the Wisdom of Experience
If you were on Twitter in the past couple of weeks, in addition to all of the tweets about March Madness, you may have seen the new hot hashtag - #dearme. The idea behind the hashtag is…
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Focus: A Cup of TEA in a Coffee World
Imagine that feeling when you have your hands clasped around a cup of hot TEA and can smell the aroma wafting up to your nostrils. You are relaxed and your day comes in to focus. If only it…
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Creating Your Leadership Margin
The term margin always perks ears. Gross margin, profit margin, contribution margin, margin of safety; margin has many uses and equally many definitions depending on industry (accounting,…
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Realistically Positive: Your Path to Success
January is well underway and you are probably off and running, working diligently with a positive attitude to fulfill the promises and resolutions you have made for 2015. Despite all of our…
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2014
The Careerist: Zen and the Art of Lawyering
Lawyers are often thought of as a miserable lot: depressed, anxious, bitter and frequently alcoholic. Whether this is true or overstated is a matter of debate. But the view that lawyers are…
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Is Gratitude Keeping You Stuck?
Not long ago I had a coaching conversation with a client that went something like this: The client said that she was feeling guilty about not being more grateful for what she had in her…
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Stepping Into Authentic Leadership
Some people believe that leaders are born. Still others think that leaders are “called” to leadership. I believe that although some people have natural abilities that make the move into…
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2013
Endings and Beginnings – Successfully Transitioning into 2014
As each year draws to a close, I like to reflect, and I ask my clients to do the same. Year-end is a great time to look both backward at the year that is closing out and ahead at the year…
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The 3000 Mile SMART(P) Goal
We’ve all set goals, or set out to set them, or just set on them. Just that short sentence shows us how easy it is to “set” a goal and then discard it because no one is looking, we got…
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The Attitude of Gratitude
At this time of year, everyone is talking about gratitude. Some of my friends on Facebook are even posting about their experiences during an exercise focusing on 30 days of gratitude. And…
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Do Your Circumstances Affect Your Performance?
Have you ever told yourself “I am going to do the best I can”? I’d be surprised if you haven’t! For most of us, this phrase is code for doing an amazing job. In fact, in a lot of cases, it…
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Finding Your Way out of a Slump
We all have slumps. Baseball players have hitting slumps, the stock market has slumps in growth, retail chains have slumps in their sales, and you and I have slumps in our lives as well. A…
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Creating Leadership Margin
Many of the leaders I work with describe their workdays as a series of back-to-back meetings, calls, emails and impromptu gatherings in their offices. After work, they drive home and start…
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Going Off the Grid: The Power of Being Unplugged
Over the holidays I took some time away from work. I did not do anything particularly spectacular - no cruise, no trip to Europe, no visit to Broadway - but I did take a mental trip to the…
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2012
Professional Presence - Real Life Observations
In my last blog post, I talked about professional presence from a very academic perspective. This time I want to talk about professional presence from a real life perspective based on what…
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Leadership and Professional Presence
In a world where each of us must work harder than ever to distinguish ourselves from the pack, professional presence is often the deciding factor as to whether or not we get the job, the…
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Values: Your Well-Being Depends on Them
As a coach, wellness is important to me. I work with my clients to help them achieve a sense of well-being in their lives by working through the challenges and opportunities they face…
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