by brandirichardthompson | Apr 6, 2026 | Courage & Culture, Executive Coaching & Career
On communications subterfuge, market uncertainty, and the leadership cost of blaming the machine My mother asked me a question recently that stopped me in my tracks. She had been watching the news. The layoffs. The headlines. The corporate announcements about...
by brandirichardthompson | Mar 30, 2026 | Communications Strategy, Executive Coaching & Career
What the 2026 Oscars, an unread speech, and 60 years of cognitive science can teach leaders about the communications decisions they make without thinking I’ve written speeches that never reached their intended audience. Not because of deliberate negligence — but...
by brandirichardthompson | Mar 2, 2026 | Courage & Culture, Executive Coaching & Career
She knew exactly what she needed to do. That’s what she told me in our first coaching session. Senior executive, fifteen years in her industry, reputation for getting results. She’d been passed over for a promotion she deserved, and she knew why. Her boss was taking...
by brandirichardthompson | Feb 28, 2026 | Executive Coaching & Career
What Black History Month really celebrates — and why the world knows it even when we forget They call it magic. Hollywood built an entire trope around it — the “magical negro,” that wise, selfless Black character who appears just in time to guide the white...
by brandirichardthompson | Feb 2, 2026 | Crisis Leadership, Executive Coaching & Career
A Leadership Framework for Knowing When It’s Time Sixteen thousand people woke up Tuesday morning with jobs at Amazon. By lunch, they didn’t. This was the second mass layoff in three months. In October, 14,000 employees were cut. Leadership said at the...
by brandirichardthompson | Jan 30, 2022 | Executive Coaching & Career
I’ve started my own show on Win Win Women. Join me live each Sunday at 10:00 AM Pacific Time for the Operation Growth show. You can join me live on Win Win Women. You can join a couple of minutes before show time. Join Brandi Richard Thompson as she...
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