Darren Stehle | Queer Leadership Coach
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I coach queer and trans leaders to develop the conviction and influence to turn their values, voice, and vision into meaningful action. darrenstehle.substack.com
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How Do You Choose to Lead a Moral Life?
What the Tao Te Ching and queer leadership teach about leading with conviction in a world that prefers conformity.
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How Do You Choose to Lead a Moral Life?
What the Tao Te Ching and queer leadership teach about leading with conviction in a world that prefers conformity.
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What the Tao Te Ching and queer leadership teach about leading with conviction in a world that prefers conformity.
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When social myths collapse, you can go numb or get specific about what you stand for, and learn to lead without dehumanizing others.
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Disillusioned with the World, or Finally Seeing It Clearly? What That Demands of Humane Leadership Now.
When social myths collapse, you can go numb or get specific about what you stand for, and learn to lead without dehumanizing others.
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January 18, 2026 at 7:54 PM
When social myths collapse, you can go numb or get specific about what you stand for, and learn to lead without dehumanizing others.
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It is the source of so many of our evils: the astonishing concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, and the immense political power that gives them. We cannot solve our problems until we tackle it.
This week's column.
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This week's column.
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At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich | George Monbiot
There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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January 16, 2026 at 6:18 PM
It is the source of so many of our evils: the astonishing concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, and the immense political power that gives them. We cannot solve our problems until we tackle it.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I just signed a petition demanding the federal government Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...
Ban X/Twitter in Canada
I just signed a petition demanding the federal government Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here: Join me in signing here:
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January 16, 2026 at 9:14 PM
I just signed a petition demanding the federal government Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...
What’s the One Problem Creating the Most Stress in Your Life—And Why?
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What’s the One Problem Creating the Most Stress in Your Life—And Why?
A 10-question clarity process to help you identify the real problem, and start solving it with integrity.
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January 8, 2026 at 2:05 PM
What’s the One Problem Creating the Most Stress in Your Life—And Why?
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How to lead with queer integrity without hype, hustle, or being sold someone else’s certainty.
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December 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
How to lead with queer integrity without hype, hustle, or being sold someone else’s certainty.
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Why 2026 Doesn’t Need to Be “Your Year”
It’s time for the typical New-Year’s marketing cliché headlines and phrases that show up in online marketing to promise transformation without addressing how change actually happens.
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It’s time for the typical New-Year’s marketing cliché headlines and phrases that show up in online marketing to promise transformation without addressing how change actually happens.
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Why 2026 Doesn’t Need to Be “Your Year”
How to lead with queer integrity without hype, hustle, or being sold someone else’s certainty.
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December 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Why 2026 Doesn’t Need to Be “Your Year”
It’s time for the typical New-Year’s marketing cliché headlines and phrases that show up in online marketing to promise transformation without addressing how change actually happens.
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It’s time for the typical New-Year’s marketing cliché headlines and phrases that show up in online marketing to promise transformation without addressing how change actually happens.
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If you completed my 8-day coaching program, "Empower Your Leadership with Queer Integrity," here's what you can do next.
How Do You Go From Insight to Ideation and Purposeful Action?
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How Do You Go From Insight to Ideation and Purposeful Action?
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How Do You Go From Insight to Ideation and Purposeful Action?
If you completed my 8-day coaching program, "Empower Your Leadership with Queer Integrity," here's what you can do next.
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December 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
If you completed my 8-day coaching program, "Empower Your Leadership with Queer Integrity," here's what you can do next.
How Do You Go From Insight to Ideation and Purposeful Action?
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How Do You Go From Insight to Ideation and Purposeful Action?
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A great read...and while not nostalgic, I remember reading the accounts in the news at the time this was happening. It was infuriating. So much has changed; and yet now we face similar but potentially more dangerous prejudice and dehumanization.
For decades, this Vancouver bookstore fought for my right to read the erotica that helped me understand myself, writes Zena Sharman.
The legacy of Little Sister’s censorship battle over queer books | Xtra Magazine
Twenty-five years after the Vancouver bookstore’s win against Canada Customs, the struggle for the freedom to read isn’t over
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December 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A great read...and while not nostalgic, I remember reading the accounts in the news at the time this was happening. It was infuriating. So much has changed; and yet now we face similar but potentially more dangerous prejudice and dehumanization.
Is Your Leadership Style Fixed and Uncompromising—Or Is There Room for Growth?
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Is Your Leadership Style Fixed and Uncompromising—Or Is There Room for Growth?
Integrate all of the principles. [Day 8—Empower Your Leadership With Queer Integrity]
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December 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Is Your Leadership Style Fixed and Uncompromising—Or Is There Room for Growth?
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Does Your Leadership Cultivate Dignity, Respect, and Humanity?
Human-Hearted leaders and ethical change-makers create positive freedom for those they guide and support to experience more of what makes their lives meaningful and joyful.
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Human-Hearted leaders and ethical change-makers create positive freedom for those they guide and support to experience more of what makes their lives meaningful and joyful.
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Does Your Leadership Cultivate Dignity, Respect, and Humanity?
How do you LEAD? [Day 7—Empower Your Leadership With Queer Integrity]
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December 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Does Your Leadership Cultivate Dignity, Respect, and Humanity?
Human-Hearted leaders and ethical change-makers create positive freedom for those they guide and support to experience more of what makes their lives meaningful and joyful.
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Human-Hearted leaders and ethical change-makers create positive freedom for those they guide and support to experience more of what makes their lives meaningful and joyful.
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Your DREAM is where vision becomes action—where the one thing you most want to create and bring into the world begins to take shape.
What your DREAM for making a difference?
What Stands Between Your DREAM of Making a Difference and Reality?
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What your DREAM for making a difference?
What Stands Between Your DREAM of Making a Difference and Reality?
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What Stands Between Your DREAM of Making a Difference and Reality?
What’s your DREAM? [Day 6—Empower Your Leadership With Queer Integrity]
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December 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Your DREAM is where vision becomes action—where the one thing you most want to create and bring into the world begins to take shape.
What your DREAM for making a difference?
What Stands Between Your DREAM of Making a Difference and Reality?
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What your DREAM for making a difference?
What Stands Between Your DREAM of Making a Difference and Reality?
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The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your leadership.
However, there are plenty of highly educated, intelligent people who lead with arrogance and disregard because they lack emotional intelligence or don't care. open.substack.com/pub/darrenst...
However, there are plenty of highly educated, intelligent people who lead with arrogance and disregard because they lack emotional intelligence or don't care. open.substack.com/pub/darrenst...
Are You Emotionally Intelligent and Reasonable Enough to Lead Ethically?
How you THINK [Day 4—Empower Your Leadership With Queer Integrity]
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December 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your leadership.
However, there are plenty of highly educated, intelligent people who lead with arrogance and disregard because they lack emotional intelligence or don't care. open.substack.com/pub/darrenst...
However, there are plenty of highly educated, intelligent people who lead with arrogance and disregard because they lack emotional intelligence or don't care. open.substack.com/pub/darrenst...
How Do Your Key Notions of Worth Affect Your Leadership?
What do you KNOW? Day 3 of my Empower Your Leadership With Queer Integrity course.
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What do you KNOW? Day 3 of my Empower Your Leadership With Queer Integrity course.
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How Do Your Key Notions of Worth Affect Your Leadership?
What do you KNOW? [Day 2—Empower Your Leadership With Queer Integrity]
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December 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
How Do Your Key Notions of Worth Affect Your Leadership?
What do you KNOW? Day 3 of my Empower Your Leadership With Queer Integrity course.
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What do you KNOW? Day 3 of my Empower Your Leadership With Queer Integrity course.
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If Well-Being Isn't the Foundation of Your Leadership, You'll Never Make a Difference
How you FEEL: Day 2 of my "Empower Your Leadership With Queer Integrity" course.
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How you FEEL: Day 2 of my "Empower Your Leadership With Queer Integrity" course.
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If Well-Being Isn't the Foundation of Your Leadership, You'll Never Make a Difference
How you FEEL [Day 2—Empower Your Leadership With Queer Integrity]
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December 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
If Well-Being Isn't the Foundation of Your Leadership, You'll Never Make a Difference
How you FEEL: Day 2 of my "Empower Your Leadership With Queer Integrity" course.
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How you FEEL: Day 2 of my "Empower Your Leadership With Queer Integrity" course.
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How to Take an Honest Snapshot of Your Current Leadership Qualities
Orientation [Day 1—Empower Your Leadership With Queer Integrity]
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Orientation [Day 1—Empower Your Leadership With Queer Integrity]
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How to Take an Honest Snapshot of Your Current Leadership Qualities
Orientation [Day 1—Empower Your Leadership With Queer Integrity]
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December 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
How to Take an Honest Snapshot of Your Current Leadership Qualities
Orientation [Day 1—Empower Your Leadership With Queer Integrity]
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Orientation [Day 1—Empower Your Leadership With Queer Integrity]
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You know Dasher and Dancer...and Prancer and Vixen...
Darlings, we’re off to a glorious queer start!
These are the male names of Santa's reindeer...
Really? This has got to be the GAYEST sleigh-ride ever!
Just how WOKE is this classic colonial Xmas story?
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Darlings, we’re off to a glorious queer start!
These are the male names of Santa's reindeer...
Really? This has got to be the GAYEST sleigh-ride ever!
Just how WOKE is this classic colonial Xmas story?
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Why Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer Was My First Queer Hero
A queer review of the fiercest reindeer of all.
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December 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
You know Dasher and Dancer...and Prancer and Vixen...
Darlings, we’re off to a glorious queer start!
These are the male names of Santa's reindeer...
Really? This has got to be the GAYEST sleigh-ride ever!
Just how WOKE is this classic colonial Xmas story?
thinkqueerly.com/why-rudolph-...
Darlings, we’re off to a glorious queer start!
These are the male names of Santa's reindeer...
Really? This has got to be the GAYEST sleigh-ride ever!
Just how WOKE is this classic colonial Xmas story?
thinkqueerly.com/why-rudolph-...
Do You Have the Conviction and Influence to Make a Difference as a Queer or Trans Leader?
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Do You Have the Conviction and Influence to Make a Difference as a Queer or Trans Leader?
How to articulate what you stand for, communicate it clarity, and lead in a way that aligns who you are with your vision.
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December 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Do You Have the Conviction and Influence to Make a Difference as a Queer or Trans Leader?
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When You Feel Off Your Game: How Do You Make Sense of Yourself Before You Lead Others?
Why the rare moments of inner stillness matter — and why they’re so hard to access when the world is this loud.
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Why the rare moments of inner stillness matter — and why they’re so hard to access when the world is this loud.
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When You Feel Off Your Game: How Do You Make Sense of Yourself Before You Lead Others?
Why the rare moments of inner stillness matter — and why they’re so hard to access when the world is this loud.
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December 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
When You Feel Off Your Game: How Do You Make Sense of Yourself Before You Lead Others?
Why the rare moments of inner stillness matter — and why they’re so hard to access when the world is this loud.
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Why the rare moments of inner stillness matter — and why they’re so hard to access when the world is this loud.
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On Tuesday, Premier Danielle Smith's Alberta government made a terrifying decision that bans health care for families of trans children and government-mandated sex checks to literally see if the child has a vagina.
Tell Premier Danielle Smith that freedom can't be overridden.
Tell Premier Danielle Smith that freedom can't be overridden.
Moments ago, Premier Danielle Smith's government made a terrifying decision and introduced legislation to suspend the charter-protected rights of transgender young people in Alberta.
Now is the time to act. Visit www.stop-smith.ca to sign our petition denouncing this draconian erosion of freedom.
Now is the time to act. Visit www.stop-smith.ca to sign our petition denouncing this draconian erosion of freedom.
November 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
On Tuesday, Premier Danielle Smith's Alberta government made a terrifying decision that bans health care for families of trans children and government-mandated sex checks to literally see if the child has a vagina.
Tell Premier Danielle Smith that freedom can't be overridden.
Tell Premier Danielle Smith that freedom can't be overridden.
What If Focusing on Everything Is the Real Problem?
In this video, I reflect on leadership and self-mastery for queer change-makers, especially during what I call a poly-crisis—facing many simultaneous challenges that can feel overwhelming.
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In this video, I reflect on leadership and self-mastery for queer change-makers, especially during what I call a poly-crisis—facing many simultaneous challenges that can feel overwhelming.
Watch and subsribe: darrenstehle.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
What If Focusing on Everything Is the Real Problem?
In this video, I reflect on leadership and self-mastery for queer change-makers, especially during what I call a poly-crisis—facing many simultaneous challenges that can feel overwhelming.
Watch and subsribe: darrenstehle.substack.com
In this video, I reflect on leadership and self-mastery for queer change-makers, especially during what I call a poly-crisis—facing many simultaneous challenges that can feel overwhelming.
Watch and subsribe: darrenstehle.substack.com
For queer leaders and change-makers, moral relativism is not moral compromise, it’s moral maturity.
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Watch the complete video here: darrenstehle.substack.com/p/can-we-be-...
October 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
For queer leaders and change-makers, moral relativism is not moral compromise, it’s moral maturity.
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Watch the complete video here: darrenstehle.substack.com/p/can-we-be-...
“To know that you do not know is highest. To not know but think you know is flawed.”
For queer leaders and change-makers, moral relativism is not moral compromise, it’s moral maturity.
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For queer leaders and change-makers, moral relativism is not moral compromise, it’s moral maturity.
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Can We Be Moral Without Being Certain?
Exploring how moral relativism invites deeper reflection, ethical dialogue, and human connection.
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October 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“To know that you do not know is highest. To not know but think you know is flawed.”
For queer leaders and change-makers, moral relativism is not moral compromise, it’s moral maturity.
open.substack.com/pub/darrenst...
For queer leaders and change-makers, moral relativism is not moral compromise, it’s moral maturity.
open.substack.com/pub/darrenst...
How Do You Choose to Lead a Moral Life?
What the Tao Te Ching and queer leadership teach about leading with conviction in a world that prefers conformity.
open.substack.com/pub/darrenst...
What the Tao Te Ching and queer leadership teach about leading with conviction in a world that prefers conformity.
open.substack.com/pub/darrenst...
How Do You Choose to Lead a Moral Life?
What the Tao Te Ching and queer leadership teach about leading with conviction in a world that prefers conformity.
open.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
How Do You Choose to Lead a Moral Life?
What the Tao Te Ching and queer leadership teach about leading with conviction in a world that prefers conformity.
open.substack.com/pub/darrenst...
What the Tao Te Ching and queer leadership teach about leading with conviction in a world that prefers conformity.
open.substack.com/pub/darrenst...
Are you making this mistake in your leadership?
Without it, you have no integrity.
Without it, you have no integrity.
October 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Are you making this mistake in your leadership?
Without it, you have no integrity.
Without it, you have no integrity.