Truth in Sedona, Arizona – Part 2
We left Sedona near the end of January and headed to Phoenix where the plan was to spend two weeks at my mom’s house where we would reset on what was next in our drive-about ...
Truth in Sedona, Arizona – Part 1
Sedona, Arizona was the third stop on our drive-about where we planned our 7-week stay on the west side of town in a house at the base of Thunder Mountain. We arrived on a beautiful ...
Utah and the Strength of Stone
The shift in energy from Montana to Utah was palpable. It began with the Utah AirBnB host giving us grief (and a biased bill) for our dogs to be included in the reservation, followed by ...
But first, Montana.
Four weeks ago, my partner Tim, our two dogs, and I embarked on what we are calling “the great drive-about”. We gave up our house in the Seattle suburbs, purged a lot of our stuff, ...
What is possible when we thrive at work?
My son recently began his first job and within a month had an experience with his manager that left him feeling confused, frustrated, and worried. When listening to my son explain the situation, I tried ...
A Conscious Revolution: Up Level the Experience of Work
There is a revolution underway, and it calls for conscious leadership as a means to uplevel the human experience in business and work. It is being led by people who no longer accept being cogs ...
9/11 Remembrance and a Call to Action
Today is the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the worst terrorist attacks in our country’s history. For the last several months I’ve been thinking about documenting my experience, planning ahead to have something ready to publish ...
Experimenting with Task Batching for Flow and Calm
Right now, I’m thinking about batching my time, meaning to lump similar tasks or activities together in time blocks throughout the day. Aside from the practical productivity hack, I’m sure that my desire is to ...
A Kickstart Guide to Creating Work You Love
I’ve felt a rush of energy lately to become very clear with what I’ve learned on my quest for work I love and what it means for myself and others. For over three years I’ve ...
What’s Fear Got To Do With It
I recently took stock of the key elements and inspirations that have become foundational in the self inquiry journey that I’ve been on during the last several years. When collected, there was a common emotion ...
20 Things I Discovered, Learned, or Loved in 2020
In no particular order this post highlights my ah-ha moments of the past year. It was a good exercise in reflecting on a year that was like no other and for also helping me to ...
My Path to Karma Leadership
Thinking back to the moment that I made the decision to be the leader I wanted to have, I recall that it was during a discussion with an HR manager where I was describing what ...
It’s a Good Time to Dream
As an escape from reality, I’ve been daydreaming about a vision that has been on my mind over the past three years. I’ve kept this vision mostly to myself, but in light of the many ...
Humanity First Leadership and Communications
During hard times is often when you find out who you can count on, when natural leadership is born and practiced. It’s when core values instinctively kick in and lead to clear, concise and genuine ...
The Year I Was Quiet
What do you do when something doesn’t sit quite right with you, when your spidey senses tell you something is amiss? I’m not talking about life or death situations, but when you can sense someone ...
Training for Longevity
What are you training for? It’s not often that I hear a question that stops me in my tracks, one that makes me pause and search for an answer, but this was one of them. ...
5 Steps for Marketing with Intention
I’m reading Digital Minimalism and I’m struck by the similarity between the book’s philosophy for helping people develop mindful practices for their digital technology use, and my belief for how companies can apply these same ...
Making The Shift To A Holistic Customer Experience
As a member of the Marketing Executive Roundtable group, I led the May 2019 session on the topic of Customer Experience (CX). The group consisted of senior level marketing professionals who represented a wide array ...
True North Manifesto
“True North is your orienting point – your fixed point in a spinning world – that helps you stay on track as a leader. It is derived from your most deeply held beliefs, values, and ...