Brave Leadership
In ever dreamt of a career in politics, but I found my political career launched when I became the policy director for a school board member in the second largest school system in the nation.
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Scarcity & Abundance: Two Sides of the Same Coin
When I began my coaching business, I was deeply concerned about how to make it work, how to find clients, and how to make money. As a solopreneur, everything was on me. I had to make it work because I had left a high-paying job, with benefits and security, for a bigger purpose.
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A Woman in Medicine
Although women physicians have come a long way in establishing themselves as leaders in their profession, our journey remains with much more to achieve. While women account for 53 percent of the nation’s medical school enrollees, in 2019 women physicians comprised only 36 percent of the workforce. In terms of leadership roles, women hold only… Read more »
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Connecting to Your Full Power
Why is living and leading from your “truths” so important? Well, because otherwise we never step into our full power. And because otherwise—no matter what it looks like on the outside—we flounder.
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Entrepreneur’s Mindset
I cannot imagine a more complex time to lead a business. I have been saying this for many years now. Yet, somehow, each new year manages to deliver the previously unthinkable along with escalating levels of complexity with which to contend. What’s more, this trend toward the increasingly complex shows no sign of abating. How… Read more »
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The Future Government Workplace
Who would have thought that a global pandemic could prove in two years what I’ve been saying for 25 years? It’s been a journey. Fresh out of college, I took my first job working for a small video conferencing integrator in 1997. As a marketer, it was my job to communicate how video conferencing technology… Read more »
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The Path Forward is Collaboration
In today’s media landscape, misinformation runs rampant, local news is declining, and polarization is on the rise. In addition, large corporations obsessed only with increasing profits are absorbing smaller outlets at an alarming rate.
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Thriving in Online Teaching
“Well, this might be the last time we shake someone’s hand for a while…” Those were the last words I said to the principal at North High School in Annapolis, Maryland in March of 2020 as the school doors were being locked. I had been coaching a group of teachers on the best ways to… Read more »
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Friction Presents Opportunity
In 2015, I became a yoga instructor, and I was trained to recognize when my students were getting uncomfortable. I’d see them with strained faces, fidgeting in the longer poses. Some suddenly needed an urgent sip of water; others simply sat down. Granted, I taught a rigorous style of vinyasa yoga in over 100-degree heat.… Read more »
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