THE VIOLET VIEW

DECEMBER 2025 | ISSUE NO. 17

Here's your latest Violet View—bringing you actionable leadership insights that cut through the noise.

Hi there, it's Stefanie (Founder of TVG)—back with your monthly dose of leadership insight.

What. A. Year.

Yes, that’s my headline for the very last Violet View of 2025.

This year brought a significant amount of change—in my personal world, across many of our client organizations, and in the world more broadly. Some of it was challenging. Some exciting. All of it required adjustment.

Full transparency, and I suspect many of you feel this too, I’m heading into the final stretch of the year feeling a bit worn down and very ready for a reset.

And, without question, I feel gratitude.

I am incredibly thankful for our clients, partners, and the leaders who trust TVG with their most pressing challenges. We take our work seriously and know that discretion, trust, and deep collaboration are what make our partnerships both meaningful and long-lasting.

As our firm heads into its fourth year, we have a strong and growing team, a steady pipeline of meaningful work, and a continued sense of momentum and focus.

I'll cheers to that 🥂

Over the last week, we’ve been intentionally slowing down, spending time to:

• Update our team photos
• Toast to success
• Throw some axes (yes, it was therapeutic and fun!)
• Prepare ourselves for the year ahead

And to mark the close of an intense year, our team will be off for the remainder of 2025.

We'll be spending time with family, friends, fur babies, and getting some well-deserved R&R.

Our mission remains the same in 2026:

Build stronger leaders.

Develop smarter teams.
Drive better, more sustainable results.

And do it with close collaboration, a high bar for excellence, and fun along the way.

Thank you for being part of our world this year. We’ll see you on the other side—hopefully rested, grounded, and ready for what’s next.

Happy Holidays!

Stefanie & The Violet Group Team

The Leadership Reset: A 5-Part Framework

December is a strange month. Days blur together. Work is both busy and slow. There’s too much cheese, too much wine, and just enough quiet to notice the things you’ve been carrying all year.

Rather than rushing through it, I used December to lead a short Leadership Reset series on LinkedIn. It's a practical framework you can return to when you’re feeling stuck, uncertain, or in need of a reset and refresh:

1) Just Observe: A hot yoga class struck a chord with me when the instructor invited us to “just observe” without any action.

Start by noticing—patterns, emotions, friction points, energy drains—without jumping to solutions.

Ask yourself: What keeps showing up that I’ve been too busy to name or see clearly?

2) Create White Space: Insight needs room. White space isn’t indulgent, it’s functional. This is where scattered observations begin to connect.

Ask yourself: Where am I defaulting to action when reflection would be more useful?

3) Your 90-minute Playbook: You've blocked time. Now what? 

• Identify somewhere outside your typical workplace.
• Make sense of your observations and name the patterns.
• Translate observations into crisp headlines: “This emerging risk matters because…”
• Move to strategy.

4) Expect Disruption: Because this is real life, something interrupts you.

An unexpected fire drill.

A curveball you didn’t plan for.

Disruption isn’t a failure of the reset. It’s the moment where you get to demonstrate your adaptability and capacity to flex while holding true to what’s important.

Ask yourself: When your best-laid plans get disrupted, how do you adapt without abandoning what matters?

5) From Reflection to Action: Only now does action make sense. The goal isn’t to do more, it’s to move forward with intention, boundaries, and focus.

Sometimes the right move is action. Sometimes it’s choosing not to act. Both are important leadership decisions.

What We’re Reading: The Right Way to Sunset a Project

Many leaders excel at launching things but ending them is tricker. We fall prey to sunk cost bias, hope for what it can become, or desire to push in and get it just 5% better.

Sometimes, it’s time to close it out and move along. This article offers a simple, science-informed framework for sunsetting work with intention.

The big idea: ending well protects morale, frees up capacity, and creates momentum for what’s next.

Our question for you: What do you need to sunset and leave behind in 2025?

Let’s Work Together in 2026  🚀

As leaders look ahead to 2026, the questions we’re hearing are consistent:

Are leadership transitions working? Are successors truly ready? Are our teams truly high performing? Are leaders equipped to deliver real business results in high-pressure environments?

This is the work we partner with our clients on: Supporting critical transitions, building credible succession pipelines, and developing leaders with the skills required to drive performance and a healthy, resilient strategy.

If these questions are showing up in your organization, we’d welcome a conversation—not to sell a program, but to help you think clearly about what matters most and what will move the needle in the year ahead.

Until then...happy listening, learning, and leading, TVG community!

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