Writing

Bringing this book into the world has been a labor of love – I suppose like most things worth pursuing. I wrote it quite quickly and rather effortlessly in the Summer of 2019. Those who know me well, know that the words tend to flow out of me when the time is ripe. It was…

I always thought of Fall as a season endings, the start of the inevitable cold and barren winter ahead. Shorter days, anxious back-to-school energy, silent but potent pressure to push a productive few months before the holidays rush in. Bye bye Summer, bye bye sun, bye bye fun. Maybe that’s why I moved to California….

I have had a boatload of coaching sessions since the Corona chaos went full throttle. Some folks are centered. Some folks are suffering. Centered looks like: continuing meaningful work, contributing to neighbors and communities, resetting homes to accommodate the “new normal” of office space, finding time to invest in new low-tech past times, connecting with others virtually, etc. Suffering looks…

Bizarre times, indeed. My empath self goes haywire in seasons of crisis. I want to help a million people immediately. I want to wave a magic wand or do a good deed or donate something that can help the planet in some meaningful way. Maybe it’s a recovering people-pleaser thing, or a leadership trainer thing…

I thought for this newsletter, I’d give you an insider peek into what I do behind closed doors. I was recently invited to speak at an incredible organization – HER. It was a beautifully intimate evening of women Founders and Executives coming together to share what’s on their minds and hearts. The topic was “the year…

I gave a talk at an intimate dinner gathering for Founders in LA earlier this week. Funny enough, we were almost all NYC-transplants. After I shared a bit of my story and riffed on the topic of the evening – 2019 in review – we went around and had each of the women make an…

I’ve been doing a lot of noodling on resilience lately. Perhaps because clients are increasingly in need of this topic or because I’m coming off of 8 weeks of travel programs and am teetering on burnout myself. Whichever way you slice it or dice it, resilience is the way of the world today. We are all doing…

Something interesting happened to me earlier this week. I was flying from Orange County to San Jose for a busy week of client programs. It seemed a bit windy the morning of my trip and I saw on my weather app that San Francisco was expecting an equally windy day. I didn’t think anything of…

One of the most popular topics that clients want to tackle is how to navigate difficult conversations in their organization. Whether it’s equipping managers to have more effective performance reviews with their teams, teaching employees how to bravely ask one another for feedback, or helping senior leaders elevate their impact in negotiations, difficult conversations are…