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April’s Focus: Leading Against Inertia

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Charlie Gilkey and Maghan Haggerty
Mar 18, 2026
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To be a leader means managing constant complexity. Shifting priorities, team dynamics, capacity challenges, and the pressure to execute while everything keeps changing.

Our Leadership Strategy Sessions are supportive, no-fluff monthly virtual meetings for leaders navigating the real challenges of modern team life.

Each session blends practical guidance, coaching, and peer Q&A. We tackle what’s most timely and relevant, from clarifying team roles and managing capacity to leading through change and building trust.

You don’t need to prep. You just need to show up as you are, with whatever’s on your plate. These sessions are designed to meet you where you are.


April’s Focus: Leading Against Inertia

Q1 gave your team real data. Some things worked. Some things created more drag than they were worth. Some projects that felt essential in January are harder to justify now, and some processes that seemed fine are showing their costs.

The risk in April is defaulting to the path of least resistance: keeping what’s familiar, avoiding the conversations that need to happen, letting the weight of Q1 just carry over into Q2. Breaking that pattern takes deliberate choice, and April — while energy is high and summer hasn’t yet disrupted everything — is the right moment to make it.

We’ll explore themes like:

  • What Q1 revealed about your team’s real priorities and where to focus energy in Q2

  • How to retire projects and processes that are no longer earning their place without losing momentum in the transition

  • Resetting team habits and agreements before the summer window closes

  • Celebrating progress and wins, especially in areas outside your original intentions and plans

April is your window. Use it to set your team up for a stronger second half rather than repeating the patterns Q1 made visible.

Bring questions about: Projects or processes your team has been holding onto longer than makes sense, how to have honest conversations about what’s not working, creating shared clarity about Q2 priorities, and how to build toward summer without overloading the months between now and then.


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If you’re not a premium subscriber yet, I encourage you to upgrade your subscription and join us Wednesday, April 1, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. PDT.

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