GalleryAugust, a Month to Dream
Hard to believe-- August is upon us. In August, our workload is less because clients and bosses are taking vacations and the days are more leisurely. The to-do list does have one big task [...]
GalleryThe Colors of a Book Tour
The past four months of my book tour have been a whirlwind. I’ve traveled and spoken to students, to Google, and to the Treasury Department in DC to name a few. I’ve seen people alive in their jobs and those beaten [...]
GallerySilence
I exhaust me.
Especially this time of year. So I need the meditative practice I began five years ago. It’s called Centering Prayer, and it’s been a life saver when my brain wants to begin […]
GalleryA Treasure Chest of Hope
When Bill’s dad, Stu, passed away two springs ago, we inherited his small lake house in Michigan. As we finally emerged from heavy-hearted grief, we came here to befriend the home; to take its […]
GalleryA Leadership Conference in Italy
I recently travelled to Italy to attend a small conference of senior level women. Our goal was to strategize ways we might join together to topple the barriers impeding organizational progress around diversity. We […]
GalleryJames
I met James in DC. I had come to the ballroom early to run through my book presentation, and there he was sitting at one of the tables, looking down at his cellphone. A […]
Gallery“Am I too nice?”
“Is it possible to just be too nice at work?” asked a young woman last week during the Q&A part of a speech I had given about my book. I sighed and thought: We’re […]
GalleryThe Stool
It was me or The Stool, and only one of us would win.
I’d gotten the good news that Bloomberg Business News wanted me on the air to talk about my new book. I’d be […]
GalleryWisdom, Joy and Love
It’s hard to believe that in two weeks my book will be on bookshelves. It took three years, a lot more discipline than I wanted to have, and has provided […]
GalleryLighten Up
In the book The Levity Effect, there was a line that has stayed with me:
“Great leaders bring lightness to the workplace.”
I thought back to the building days of HGTV, […]