Can you Course-Correct?

Posted by on Jun 13, 2014 | No Comments

One of the most powerful things we can do for ourselves is step-back and think about how we might look at a situation from a different perspective.  Yes, it makes a difference to others around us, but maybe even more so, in how we experience ourselves and our ability to course-correct along the way. Click […]

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Waiting for the Muck to Settle

Posted by on Apr 10, 2014 | No Comments

My life keeps dishing out proof that the more I learn, the more I realize I need to learn – and it’s a very uncomfortable place to be.  It’s so much more fun when you feel like you’ve got all the answers, don’t you think?  My husband (the innovation-guy) and I were talking about the […]

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Waiting for the Muck to Settle

Posted by on Apr 10, 2014 | No Comments

My life keeps dishing out proof that the more I learn, the more I realize I need to learn – and it’s a very uncomfortable place to be.  It’s so much more fun when you feel like you’ve got all the answers, don’t you think?  My husband (the innovation-guy) and I were talking about the […]

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Walkin’ In Their Shoes

Posted by on Jan 28, 2014 | 5 Comments

One of the greatest gifts the theatre has given me is the ability to walk in someone else’s shoes.  If I look over the landscape of my career, it has probably been the single most important skill I’ve carried with me. I remember back when I had my events company in Seattle – what seems […]

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Improving Your Odds For Influence

Posted by on Dec 16, 2013 | 2 Comments

When I met Jessica*, I was immediately struck by her passion and clarity.  She is a woman on a mission!  She could see that the way things had always been done in her company was causing the best-and-the-brightest to jump ship.  As she explained it, the purpose-driven-mercurial-millineals  needed to be able to see how they […]

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Life’s Priorities

Posted by on Oct 23, 2013 | 3 Comments

I spent the day running around like a crazy-person getting ready for tomorrow’s session.  A total stress-ball.  Every detail was so important.  The stakes felt high. Then I got home and received a phone call that one of my dear friends is very ill.  It put things in perspective. I’m not sure why this is […]

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Taking Off the “Robot Eyes”

Posted by on Oct 27, 2009 | One Comment

For Easter, when our son was three, we gave him a Viewmaster. Both my husband and I had a Viewmaster as kids, so we thought he’d like it. Ever since his grandma bought him a broken robot at a garage sale when he was two, our kiddo was totally obsessed with robots. (I’m told that […]

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