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I am Lisa Sennhauser-Kelly, BlueSky is my company. Join a programme (link below). Reach for the Sky!

I help ambitious corporate professionals find clarity + direction using strategic coaching grounded in real-world leadership experience | Ex-UBS MD

Reach for the Sky! Helping high-achievers in corporate step into next-level leadership with clarity, confidence + career direction | Ex-UBS MD | Exec Coach

I am Lisa Sennhauser-Kelly and BlueSky Development AG is my Executive Coaching company, located in Bahnhofstrasse in the heart of Zurich. Book a call or come in for a coffee:

https://calendly.com/lisasennhauserkelly/coffee-chat

Check out my website: www.mybluesky.ch
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04/11/2026

If you could only change one thing at work right now, what would it be?

Most of us have a list, and usually a long one: the team, the boss, the workload, the next role, the skills we never quite got to, the conversation we keep postponing. All of it is real, and all of it deserves attention.

The trouble with a long list is that it spreads you thin. If you make small changes in many places, your work rarely feels different. One thing, chosen deliberately, will make a real difference.

So which one is it for you? Not the most urgent, and not the one you think you should choose. The one that, if it changed, would make the rest easier.

It is the second of the three questions we work through in Take the Lead on Tuesday 10 November: why, what and how.

03/11/2026

If you could give the next twelve months a name, what would it be?

Michael (name changed) faced that question after a long and successful career, when his role ended unexpectedly. On the surface it was a career question: what job should I do next? Underneath was a harder one: who am I without this role? There were financial questions too, and the worry of making the wrong decision.

The work was not about his CV. It was about what really mattered to him, which of his decisions were being driven by fear, and what kind of life he wanted to create rather than simply inherit.

The turning point came when he stopped seeing what had happened as something that had been done to him, and started seeing it as a chance to shape what came next. He gave the year ahead a name: "My Year of Taking Risks".

Same situation. A different name for it, and a very different year.

02/11/2026

Are you saying yes to too many projects?

A participant in one of my programmes said: "Big organizations tend to increase workload: consolidating roles, more projects, tighter deadlines. Declining additional workload can stall career progression. But with additional workload, it is difficult not to get into the executor trap."

That is the bind. Saying no feels risky. Saying yes, again, means the work that would actually move your career gets pushed into the evenings, if it happens at all.
Which of your current projects would you choose again today, knowing what you know now? Which one would someone in your team be glad to own? And which piece of work would people remember you for in a year's time?

Saying yes is not the problem. Saying yes before deciding whether you want to is.

30/10/2026

Do you like building relationships at work?

David (name changed) never thought of it that way. To him it was "politics", and he wanted no part of it. He was highly respected and very good at his job, in a complex global organisation. Yet decisions were made without him, projects stalled, and ideas he knew were good went nowhere. He believed excellent work would speak for itself. The funny thing was that he was good at relationships, with his clients and with his own team. Only upwards did it turn, in his mind, into "politics".

What changed was one question: what if the time he spent with the people whose backing he needed was not "politics" at all, but simply part of his job?

He realised he had put a great deal into the quality of his ideas and very little into the relationships needed to carry them. So he moved from presenting solutions to building alignment, without becoming any less himself.

Where are you waiting for good work to speak for itself, in your current role or in your search for the next one?

Whatever you are working through right now, bring it to Take the Lead on Tuesday 10 November. It is a free, live 90-minute session from 11:00 to 12:30 Zurich time. You bring one real situation of your own, and we work through three questions: why it matters to you, what you will change first, and what it will take to act on it.

Save your place: https://programs.blueskycourses.com/take-the-lead-nov10

29/10/2026

Are you pushing too hard?

Susan (name changed) looked confident, capable and in control, and from the outside she was. She had built her reputation on being decisive and accountable. But her organisation was shifting, relationships with the people around her had become more complicated, and decisions that used to be predictable were taking longer and longer.

So she pushed harder for clarity. And the more she pushed, the more frustrated she became.

What helped was separating what was within her control from what was not, and noticing the difference between reacting and responding. Patience, it turned out, was not the same as doing nothing. It was a leadership skill.

She moved from reacting to responding, from control to influence, and from the pressure of the next week to a longer view of where she was going.

28/10/2026

Has anyone ever repeated your idea later in a meeting, and been thanked for it?

A participant in one of my programmes asked it almost exactly like that: "How do you deal with people who speak over you, or repeat what you said later in the meeting, taking it as their own idea?"
It is worth looking at what happened before the moment itself. Did the people in the room know your thinking before the meeting started, or did they hear it for the first time when you said it? When you made the point, did you put it forward as a proposal, or offer it as a passing thought? And when it came back to you in someone else's words, what stopped you from saying, calmly, "I'm glad we agree on this."

None of this is about being louder. It is about making sure your thinking is being heard.

Does this resonate? How would you deal with it?

27/10/2026

Would you leave your job before you had the next one lined up?

Louise (name changed) would have said no. Her story follows a pattern, and the pattern is always similar. A senior professional in a demanding role, clear that this was not what she wanted for the next ten years, and just as clear that walking away without a concrete next job was out of the question.

What made the difference was a plan. She got clear on what she wanted from her work, her life and where she lived it. She planned her exit properly: savings, a timeline, and the conversations she needed to have to leave well. Then she resigned, as an informed choice rather than an impulse, and took about a year out to rest, reflect, try small things and meet people without the pressure of a job search.

More than a year later, she is in a role that fits her, and she would tell you that the time out was what made it possible.
From the outside, it looked like a leap. From the inside, it had been planned with care.

26/10/2026

What changes when you take 90 minutes to work on one real situation of your own?

"This shifted my entire approach, from reactive to intentional."
Authentic Leader participant, 2025

Take the Lead: Tuesday 10 November, 11:00 to 12:30 Zurich time.
Free, live and online.
https://programs.blueskycourses.com/take-the-lead-nov10

25/10/2026

Which of these four could you honestly say about your work this week?

My work is interesting.
This is important.
I can do this.
I know what to try next.

Angela Duckworth, the psychologist behind the research on grit, describes these as the four thoughts that sit underneath passion and perseverance. When all four are true, people keep going long after others would have stopped. When even one is missing, every week costs more effort than it should.

If you hesitated over one of them, which one was it?

Was it “this is important”, in a week when everything was a priority and nothing felt like your own choice? Or “I know what to try next”, while the work that matters most waits for an evening that never quite arrives?

And if you lead a team, which of the four would your people say about their own work?

That is the conversation I would like to have with you on Tuesday 10 November. Take the Lead is a free, live 90-minute session from 11:00 to 12:30 Zurich time. You bring one real situation of your own, and we work through three questions: why it matters to you, what you will change first, and what has held you back so far. You leave with one decision, and an honest view of what it will take to act on it.

Save your place: https://programs.blueskycourses.com/take-the-lead-nov10

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