For three hours yesterday, I was shoulder to shoulder with a wonderful group of colleagues facilitating a highly-interactive advocacy workshop for people working with libraries […]
One of the words that leaves me feeling happiest is “yes.” The power of the word “yes” first became obvious to me when I was […]
Writing about ShapingEDU and Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering recently as part of this continuing series of blog posts has made me more grateful […]
As the coronavirus pandemic started shutting things down here in the United States in March 2020, many of us were scrambling to find ways to […]
Less than 15 minutes into the daylong “Champions of Learning” virtual conference hosted last week by colleagues in the ATD (Association for Talent Development) South […]
There are conferences that start and end on a pre-announced schedule; you step away from work, you attend them, you enjoy them, and then you […]
With my head exploding from a week’s worth of thoughtful, transformative experiences packed into a single day, at least one thing is clear to me: […]
There is no going back; there is only going forward, a panelist suggested during the opening keynote event on Day Two (yesterday) of the Arizona […]
It’s been a time of reflection. A time of thinking about how much I miss having meandering conversations with friends over coffee and dessert. And, […]
Set aside for a moment the claims and fears that pandemic-induced social-distancing is making it impossible for us to engage in some of life’s greatest […]
Sometimes the real gift is hidden deeply within the gift we think we have received—or the tragedy we have experienced. A case in point: a […]
Suzanne Lipsett, a writer I very much admired, insisted at the beginning of Surviving a Writer’s Life that what we do with our experiences—i.e., write […]