Isabelita Castilho is a Job Search Strategist, C-Suite Advisor & a thought leader in Executive Career Transition at Executive Power FZE. As I reflect on the year and the many executives I’ve supported ...

The biggest barriers to professional growth often aren’t external obstacles or lack of opportunity—they’re self-built invisible ceilings. The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only ...

Have you ever found yourself stuck in a pattern, circling the same solutions without finding your way forward? Here’s how to break free from our self-imposed limitations. The path to growth, ...

Forming good habits and breaking bad ones isn't just about willpower—it's about understanding how your brain works and designing your environment and routines accordingly. Backed by research from ...

Excessive people pleasing can trap you in a cycle of insecurity. Here’s how to break the habit. By Jancee Dunn Meg Josephson, a psychotherapist in San Francisco, once had a client who said she left ...

Earlier this year, I launched a new agency, starting with a small team I brought over from my other agency. We intentionally chose to do things differently. The traditional agency model, where project ...

Leaving is always an emotional act, not only at the moment of separation but often long before. The thought of leaving—whether it’s a job or an intimate relationship—comes from an underlying feeling: ...

Breaking a bad habit can feel like swimming against a current. You know it isn’t serving you, but your brain defaults to it anyway. A bad habit is a learned behavior that’s performed automatically in ...

I work with a lot of ambitious people who have big goals. They want to do it all and tend to have a lot on their plates. They also seem to have trouble saying no, either because they fear failure or ...