Side by Side Looking Out
I’ve just returned from a trip to France with my husband Yancey and our friends Elie, Lisa, and their son Theo. It was such a delicious, memorable time, especially being around [...]
Find Your Beach
A few years ago I went on a long-awaited pilgrimage to Provincetown, Massachusetts. My aunt has been visiting, working, or seasonally living here for 50 years, and for the last decade [...]
Expensive and Worth It
It’s expensive and worth it to get people in the same room together. Whenever I facilitate anything for a team, I’m always aware of the following: They are not doing their regular work when they [...]
In Praise of the Slow Burn
I was telling a client today that I’m liable to fall in love with people. I’ve had many friendships in my life that started with a bang. I loved their [...]
Celebrating Survival
The best thing about my job is that I get to see so many other people do their jobs. In the last 20 years, as I’ve been consulting to organizations, [...]
The Okayness of Life
The poet Blake says, “We are put on earth for a little while to learn to bear the beams of love.” The maddening conundrum here is that humans often have a hard [...]
Cosmology of Mutuality
It’s a rainy weekday night. I’ve just finished with a client in Seattle and have decided to wait out the traffic for a couple hours before getting on the freeway. There’s construction on the Ship [...]
In Praise of Caring
Today I facilitated an amazing group of leaders who work at a skilled nursing facility. They are so clear on their purpose and have such principled leadership that they don’t have the maladies that [...]
Earth Day is for All of Us
The first Earth Day was in 1970, less than two years after Apollo 8 astronauts sent the world a photograph of earth rising above the surface of the moon. In [...]
Make Something
Coming home after swimming, I’m ravenous. I have an hour until my first meeting, time to make breakfast instead of just a quick bowl of yogurt or piece of toast. One of my [...]