I Can Fit That In with Erin Coupe

Modern leadership culture rewards productivity, urgency, and constant availability. For many executives and high-performing professionals, success has become synonymous with overcommitment — calendars packed beyond capacity, burnout normalized as ambition, and personal well-being deferred in pursuit of achievement. The result is a generation of leaders operating at high levels professionally while quietly struggling with exhaustion, disconnection, and unsustainable performance.

In this Book Talk conversation, the Executives’ Club of Chicago welcomes Erin Coupe — executive advisor, leadership coach, founder of Authentically EC, and author of I Can Fit That In — for a candid discussion on leadership, alignment, energy, and the hidden costs of modern performance culture. Drawing from her experience inside Fortune 100 companies, executive coaching work, and personal transformation journey, Coupe explores why so many leaders feel trapped in cycles of overextension — and what it takes to lead, work, and live differently.

At the center of I Can Fit That In is a challenge to the belief that success comes from doing more. Instead, Coupe reframes leadership through intentionality, energy stewardship, and self-awareness — helping leaders understand how sustainable performance is built not through constant output, but through clarity, alignment, and intentional decision-making.

This conversation examines how executives can navigate pressure, ambition, and leadership responsibility without sacrificing their health, relationships, or sense of self — and why the future of leadership may depend less on endurance and more on how leaders sustain themselves and others over time.

Pricing:
Members: $25
Nonmembers: $50

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