by Dr. Chris Allen | May 18, 2025 | Forbes Coaches Council Expert Panel, Leadership Development, Work-Life Harmony
Forbes Coaches Council: Expert insights on creating healthier, more productive workplace cultures May is Mental Health Awareness Month-an ideal time for leaders to reflect on the tone they’re setting and explore creative, practical ways to promote a healthy...
by Dr. Chris Allen | May 15, 2023 | Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Team Work, Work-Life Harmony
During the worst part of the pandemic, I was coaching an executive at a Fortune 500 company regarding critical innovative work that he was doing. Meanwhile, his five-year old was doing kindergarten at the kitchen table, while his 7-year-old was in 2nd grade in her...
by Dr. Chris Allen | Apr 7, 2020 | Resilience, Team Work, Work-Life Harmony
With the onset of the coronavirus, our anxieties, fears, and challenges, at work and personally, have exponentially increased in number and intensity. Our distress is understandable, given the unprecedented situation and all the unknowns. So how should we cope with...
by Dr. Chris Allen | Aug 14, 2019 | Work-Life Harmony
A Day In My Life: One Path to Work-Life Harmony Today (Sunday) I slept in until 7:15 am, which is late for me, sat outside and had a glorious breakfast courtesy of my fabulous husband. I read the newspaper and watched my cats’ fascination with the frogs in our...
by Dr. Chris Allen | Jul 5, 2019 | Personal Development, Resilience, Work-Life Harmony
How happy are you? Are you flourishing? Do you have a deep sense of well-being? Aristotle wrote, “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim, and end of human existence.” Also, the right to the “pursuit of happiness” is...
by Dr. Chris Allen | May 30, 2019 | Resilience, Work-Life Harmony
Welcome to the unofficial beginning of summer! After Memorial Day, parks and pools open, we plant our herbs and flowers and plan for a little more time off. Those of us who live in cold, snowy places especially look forward to the summer months. We picture ourselves...