

Trust Opens Windows
Even when we are with the people we trust the most, we instinctively hold on to our “shitty” ideas. We know they are unformed, and…


Do you need to be right? Or in a relationship?
“Why can’t they just see that they are wrong?”


The Infinite Mirror Maze
Over the winter break, I promised my kid a day or two of Mom Camp… those days during a school break where I take off work, plan a couple of…

Borrowing from Music: Generating from Consonance and Dissonance
What comes to mind when you hear the word conflict? Did other words like misunderstanding, and frustration come to mind? Did you physically…

Imaginary Worlds and Problem Solving
“So who do you think would win in the air soccer battle? The griffins or the octopus in octo-bubbles?”

Listen and Wait
Sometimes the most profound messages from the universe come when we are least expecting them — like, say, watching some old Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes with your nine-year-old child.


Stop confusing being data driven with doing data driven
If I see one well-intended mistake my customers make over and over again, it’s that they confuse “doing data” — having a flurry of…

Move like a jellyfish
I was really struggling with how to talk about my intention for 2021. The idea of saying out loud that I intended to “do less” didn’t sound…

It’s in the cut of the cloth
Last fall at my business retreat, I did a guided visualization. As I began drawing what I hoped my year ahead would become, I imagined my…

How much stress can a Lego(r) Bridge Handle?
How much stress can a Lego® bridge handle?
The memory of this episode, and specifically the clutching-at-the-heart-anticipation, came vividly back to me in a conversation with a colleague last week. The sudden switch to remote teaming was exacerbating fissures and stresses that already existed within their team, and that the manager had hoped would resolve.