Blog Posts

Where’s Your Mountain? Where’s Your River?

September 15, 2015

By the time you read this I will have started my month-long stint on the road to New Zealand, Shanghai and Mumbai. I am […]

Learning through ‘Outside Eyes’

August 1, 2015

The coldest winter I ever spent was a conference-going summer in any air-conditioned room across the USA in July. Brrr. I have worn […]

Input Not Imprint

July 1, 2015

I sent my editor the first draft of my next book, which is tentatively titled, Having Hard Conversations 2.0: Extending the Learning. It is a […]

Transitions

June 1, 2015

My nephew graduated from pre-school this past week. Video from his father came via my cell phone. He was great at the choreography […]

Women in Leadership: Does Gender Matter?

May 28, 2015

This post was originally written by Jennifer and published on Education Week’s opinion blog, Finding Common Ground.
Mad Men ended on Sunday and Joan Holloway, played […]

Women and Leadership: 3 Ways We Need to ‘Show the Love’

May 13, 2015

This post was originally written by Jennifer and published on Education Week’s opinion blog, Finding Common Ground.
After the posting of the last blog I wrote […]

Women in Leadership: Gender Bias and the ‘Confidence Gap’

May 5, 2015

This post was originally written by Jennifer and published on Education Week’s opinion blog, Finding Common Ground.
May is a time of celebrations and leavings in […]

Deep Cleaning

May 1, 2015

I have been in the same time zone for a few weeks now. It’s been great. For some educational consultants, travel slows down this […]

Through Thick and Thin

April 1, 2015

Eddie Redmayne and Emma Stone were interviewed in The New York Times and over lunch they discussed life, the world, and the universe. […]

Show Some Cleavage

March 1, 2015

I spent some time s this past month with a few of my newsletter readers. My essential question for 2015, which I shared in […]