Blog Posts
Jennifer publishes a monthly blog, "Voice Lessons." For the last 8 years, she has provided monthly commentary on communication challenges and a set of cool resources. Check out recent posts, categories and archives to explore more.
"Voice Lessons (Jennifer’s monthly newsletter) is the only newsletter I read word for word and all the way through. It always has great thought provoking content and links. I often wonder when we send these things out into people’s inboxes if they actually engage with what we take the time to write and I thought Jennifer should know that her work is read, thought about and appreciated."
Samantha Wynne, Early Childhood Consultant, Fremantle, Western Australia
Tag, We’re ‘It’
September 1, 2026
Several of the schools I’m working with this year are wrestling with a deceptively simple idea: shared responsibility. What’s the leader’s role and what’s the […]
The Funnest Month
August 3, 2026
I often tell folks that traveling helps me ‘get out’ – get out of myself, get out of my country, get out of my way […]
Do I Want to be Right or Effective?
July 1, 2026
A week ago someone wanted me to add some additional strategies to my Having Hard Conversations workshop. Her administrators had been feeling ineffective and rather […]
The Leaving Time
June 1, 2026
I recently went to a “We’re moving to a new school” goodbye party, and today I saw photos from a retirement celebration elsewhere. Ah yes […]
Small Acts of Goodness
May 1, 2026
I had the pleasure of one week off this past month and I lived it “Northern Californian style” on retreat at Esalen, home of the […]
Celebrations Without Posts
April 1, 2026
I haven’t been posting on social media often this past month. But I have been looking. 🙂 I see many postings of “I am here […]
Heavy Lifting
March 2, 2026
I’ve been noticing something lately in my conversations with educators and leaders: people are tired. Not just end-of-semester tired or February-was-long tired. Deep tired. The […]
Here’s a Hug
February 2, 2026
I’m breathing deeply. The world is topsy turvy and challenging us in historic ways at this time. It’s pushing us up against some really difficult […]
Just Say Yes
January 5, 2026
Adulting. No fun. This past month I did a bone density scan, rewrote my trust, had my carpets cleaned, started (again) eating more healthfully, and […]
Sensing a Theme
December 1, 2025
Last week I read someone’s book proposal about working through burnout. Five days ago while listening to NPR I heard a story about how the […]
