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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Dress the Part
What we wear can sometimes be a controversial topic. We say that what’s inside matters more than what we wear. Which is 100% true. Some consider clothes to be frivolous. Others feel they are an integral part of their identity. The clothes we choose send messages. A...
Personal Brand Perceptions
Our personal brand is all about perceptions. What people say and think about us when we aren’t in the room. Everything we do impacts those perceptions. And, for most people, those actions aren’t intentional. They aren’t processing the image they portray. Inside they...
Weekly Summary – 3.21.26
This week, there wasn’t one of my posts that stood out as the one to highlight. So, I’m giving a brief overview of each and you can click through to learn more about the topics that interest you. Who Am I? This post focuses on the titles we give ourselves. In the...
Intellectual Humility
The other day, I heard the term “intellectual humility”. This was unfamiliar to me, so I went in search of information. The quick realization was that there was a LOT published. Intellectual humility is the space between stubbornness and gullibility. We engage this...
EVEolution: 26 Years Later
In 2000, Faith Popcorn wrote the book EVEolution: The 8 Truths to Marketing to Women. At the time, I was working at GM and just started a Brand Character Manager role at Saturn. The book focused on how women make purchasing decisions and how that approach differs from...
The Formula for Willpower
Willpower is a core element of the hope equation developed by Charles Snyder. I’ve written about willpower before and continue to think about why we sometimes need more or less of it to get things done. To remind us of the definition, willpower is both “The ability to...
Are You Anxious?
Anxious is an interesting word. There are two meanings that are quite different. Anxious can mean “uneasiness of mind” = worried. Anxious can also mean “earnestly wishing” = eager. Worried is dreading while eager is anticipating. My Story Historically, I’ve tended to...
Who Am I?
This is a question we don’t ask ourselves very often. Especially once our adult life begins. We start defining ourselves by education, school, work, and family. Yet, under the surface, all these answers are just titles. They don’t really tell anyone anything about us....
Weekly Summary – 3.14.26
This week, I wasn’t sure which blog post to highlight as they all take many different directions. I’ve landed on the one that focuses on our personal development. I was introduced to some research that suggests we are always in a state of doing, being, becoming, and...
Imagine the Possibilities
Recent years have triggered more conversation around the shifts that are defining the future of work. The ability to work from anywhere is just one of the trends. Trying to adjust old systems may prove to be more difficult than setting aside “the way it was done” and...
The Forgotten Generation
I read a Fast Company article that highlighted an Amy Poehler quote from a year ago. “The Boomers are all about money. Gen X is like, ‘is it all about money’? Millennials are like, ‘where is the money’? And Gen Z is like, ‘what is money’?” – Amy Poehler (Gen...
AI for Agency Strategy
I recently read an article from MarTech that both excited and troubled me. The piece was titled “The AI era needs strategists grounded in expertise and guided by context”. At the beginning, the premise is that organizations (specifically agencies) will need more...
Do You Really Talk Like This?
I’m at an interesting point with AI. I love some things and I’m growing irritated with others. People are referring to “AI slop”. The massive amount of low-quality, mass-produced content created by AI. This “slop” can lack accuracy, effort, and originality. There is...
Do. Be. Become. Belong.
In 2022, Occupational Scientist Ann Wilcock wrote a paper that suggested: “We are all in a constant loop of being, doing, and becoming.” Her work also including a 4th element – belonging, that was explored further here. The framework suggests that health stems from...
Weekly Summary – 3.7.26
This week, the highlight takes a shift from personal branding & self-development to marketing and the evolution of organizational structures. The landscape of marketing (and employment in general) has been shifting since the Great Recession (around 2010). The...