Begin at the Beginning

My Great-Full Life blog won’t always take a chronological approach, but for the inaugural post in this series, it simply wouldn’t be right to acknowledge anyone before my parents.  They […]

My Great-Full Life

Well over a decade ago, when I was facilitating a leadership program in Munich, an organizational psychologist joined us as a guest speaker. She shared her research on the effects […]

“Nice” is a Leadership Competency

Over the last year, I’ve faced a health issue that has been a challenge for me to accept and reconcile. Recently, it resulted in me falling to the ground at […]

What’s the Worst That Can Happen?

Eons ago in a college sociology class, the professor shared a study about what people fear most. I found the discussion illuminating at the time and still relevant today, so […]

Every Woman Has a Harvey Story

When I was a high school graduate, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my future. For a variety of reasons, I initially bypassed college and instead […]

What Are You Speaking For?

In follow-up to last month’s blog on Listening For, this post is focused on a practice area called Speaking For. Beautiful in its simplicity, you only need answer the question: […]

What Are You Listening For?

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that listening skills are in a serious deficit? Hello? Is this thing on? But seriously, folks … This was acutely evident […]

Personal Evolution v. New Year’s Resolutions

There’s a familiar topic in the media this time of year that usually sounds something like: “XX% of New Year’s Resolutions Broken by the End of January!” Whatever the failure […]

Fresh Eyes

Children are such pure reflective devices. They notice or say something innocently and it strikes a chord. That happened to me the other night as my husband, son and I […]