Leader · Writer · Coach · Speaker
Tricia
Harding
Play the tension. Live expansively.
You're fine.
And that's the problem.
Leader · Writer · Coach · Speaker
Play the tension. Live expansively.
You're fine.
And that's the problem.
Life is full of tension. Of pushes and pulls, of big and small, of contentment and greatness, of speeding up and slowing down, of striving and savoring. And just like a string on an instrument, the tension is not the enemy. It's the source. A string under the right tension sings.
Too much tension and it snaps. Too little and it goes slack. A slack string doesn't produce music. It's lifeless and completely lacking in resonance or voice. It's potential that never becomes anything.
Fine is the slack string. It's the year that looks good on paper and feels like nothing in particular. Fine is what happens when we protect the instrument instead of playing it.
Fine isn't failure. It's subtler than that. It's the slow forgetting that we are here to make music.
There is more available to you than fine. It can be bigger, deeper, brighter than the version we settle for when we are fine. It's both the Sunday nap and the 5am alarm. The one life changed and the thousands. The putting down of roots and the thrill of exploration. The savor and the devour. A beautiful, impossible, human tapestry that only comes into focus when we stop resolving the tension and start playing it.
You felt it reading this. That's the string. That's where we start.
Play the tension. Live expansively.
About
Tricia Harding leads, writes, and coaches for people who know they have more range. She helps them find it, play it, and stop protecting it.
Her work is forged in real loss and real love. She knows what it costs to play the tension. She knows what it costs to lose it. And she knows what it takes to find the music again.
She doesn't teach expansion from a distance — she lives it, continuously, and invites people into the same.
President, Novus Global
100+
Coaches worldwide
15+
Years of growth
By Day
Tricia is President of Novus Global, one of the world's leading executive coaching firms. She joined when there were five coaches. There are now over a hundred, spread across the globe.
The tensions at Novus Global have never been abstract. Scale versus soul. Growth versus depth. The coach in front of you versus the hundred coaches you're responsible for. You learn to play those or you snap.
That's where the philosophy stopped being philosophy. Not in a keynote. Not in a coaching session. In the daily grind of building something real.
Coaching
Tricia works with a small number of individuals and organizations on the deeper work — the kind that doesn't show up on a slide deck but changes everything about how you lead and live.
This isn't about fixing what's broken. It's about expanding what's possible.
If you know you have more range than you've been playing — this is where we start.
One-on-one work for leaders, executives, and anyone ready to stop settling for fine. Focused on culture, clarity, and the expansive life.
Working with leadership teams to build the capacity to play the tension. Creating cultures where that becomes the standard, not the exception.
For organizations ready to move from fine to expansive. Building the systems, language, and practices that make right tension the baseline.
Writing
Manifesto
The case against fine. Why a slack string makes no music.
Leadership
Why the best organizations don't resolve tension. They learn to play it.
Expansion
On tension, resonance, and the one thing that makes music possible.
Speaking
01
The signature keynote. Why fine is the slack string. What it sounds like when you stop protecting the instrument and start playing it.
02
Leadership isn't about resolving the tension between competing demands. It's about learning to play more of it. A framework for leaders ready to stop choosing sides.
03
How the best organizations build cultures where right tension is the baseline. Where the music doesn't stop when things get hard.
Contact
Whether you're interested in coaching, having Tricia write or speak, or just want to say hello — reach out. Every conversation starts somewhere. Usually with a question worth sitting with.