The Intersection
The way we work, grow, and succeed is changing. I’m here to explore what that means for you and your company. This blog is a collection of insights, strategies, and reflections designed to help individuals take ownership of their career and life and help companies create a space where team members thrive.
I pull from books, podcasts, research, and personal experiences to uncover practical ways to stabilize, grow, and thrive in today’s evolving world. If you’re looking to create a stronger, more sustainable foundation for your career or the company you are part of, this is the place.
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Busy Seasons
We all have waves of busy seasons. Even if we think our lives are full every day, we see the peaks and valleys. Sometimes we see a peak coming. Sometimes they creep up on us. Either way, taking an hour when one hits to think through a plan can relieve stress. Stopping...
Three Things
What if you could only communicate 3 things about yourself in an interview? No stories. No STAR format. Three things without explanation. What three benefits would you indicate you provide? How would you be selected over all the other candidates in the room? I believe...
Going Home
Trips are an interesting thing. You anticipate the trip with excitement. Even a business trip has the pull of something different. The days away are seen as both long and short. It seems like you have been gone a long time. And, yet surprised that the time has come to...
Weekly Summary – 4.18.26
This week, I’m pairing one of my blog posts with a couple podcasts to help us manage our lives. No matter how great our systems are, we can all feel overwhelmed especially during spring. Last year, I wrote a post titled "May-cember: Prepare for the May-ham”. And,...
Life Management
10 Tips for People Who Don't Have Time Life brings with it jobs. Not the kind you get paid for, but the kind that just needs to be done. Laundry. Finances. Paperwork. Dishes. Groceries. Cooking. Cleaning. All the things. With many years of experience managing these...
Do You Know Yourself?
When I was doing some research on the framework of doing, being, and becoming, this quote popped up in my research: “No one else has the capacity to know us as well as we can know ourselves. It is in the awareness of ourselves that our strengths lie. And awareness of...
Skills for the Future
I recently spent time with the 2025 World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report. There are many data points and charts throughout the report that it would be interesting to dive into and write more about. However, I was drawn to the two shown below comparing the...
Social Introverts
Conversations about introverts are often confusing. Many people believe that introverts are shy. Or don’t like being around people. Anti-social. While extroverts are seen as the life of the party. The true difference between introverts and extroverts is how they...
Does Society Promote Jugglers?
I continue to love gaining new insight about myself. A great source of ideas often comes from statements Gretchen Rubin makes. While I feel like I know many of her observations, this one was new to me: “One thing that comes up in the workplace a lot is jugglers and...
Weekly Post – 4.11.26
A couple years ago, I started digging into a lot of shifts happening in employee / employer contracts. One of the areas I focused on was the shift of burden for retirement from government and corporations over to employees. This shift is continuing and is relevant to...
Daily Reading List
Information is coming at me from every direction. Newsletters. Books. Blog posts. White papers. Summaries from ChatGPT. I want to consume it all. Yet time is limited. Precious. A New Strategy So, I’m trying something new. Daily reading time. This isn’t for books; I...
Own Your Response
Life is full of challenges and changes. We plan and then the plans go awry. We go into conversations with one intention and they drift somewhere else. Amidst all the change, we can only control our own actions and emotions. In 2004, Jack Canfield came up with this...
The Shifting of Retiree Benefits
We all age. We all have a need to ensure we have the finances to support ourselves in our later years. Yet, over the last several decades, small changes have been happening that have slowly shifted the savings burden over to employees. The changes in industry,...
What Is Your Marketing Stack?
Believe it or not, most of us have a marketing stack these days. This is the set of tech tools we use to communicate. As an individual or as a business, we all have them. A simple individual stack might look like Microsoft, Google, and Instagram. Companies can have...
Why Meet?
I heard an interesting rule for meetings. The only reasons to have a meeting are to decide, debate, discuss, and develop. The item that is overused and rightfully missing from the list above is update. Professional days get quickly filled with status meetings. The...