Category: Self-Reflection

Show Up, Step Up, Speak Up
March 1, 2022
This newsletter was written before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. I strongly condemn the actions of the Russian government and my thoughts and support are with […]

White Light
February 1, 2022
At the start of a new year, I often decide on a word I will work with that shapes my interactions and stretches me at […]

Rejoice
January 3, 2022
A wonderful friend and a terrific colleague, Giselle Martin-Kniep, passed away last month. I was unaware that she had been ill. News of her passing […]

Embrace the Ordinary
December 1, 2021
I have a cognitive crush on Alain de Botton, founder of The School of Life. What he and his colleagues write about is brings me […]

Changed for Good
November 1, 2021
When I procrastinate, which is somewhat often, I find myself in the Facebook Watch section and see a video from The Dodo of a baby […]

Running on Empty
October 1, 2021
I ‘knew’ of Jackson Browne when I was asked to go to one of his concerts this weekend, but I didn’t know Jackson Browne’s epic […]

What Needs Shoring Up in Your Life?
July 1, 2021
A few weeks ago, with ten minutes to go in a Stretching Your Learning Edges introductory workshop with school heads, my internet went down. I […]

Can’t Do ‘Same Same’
June 1, 2021
For the first time in over 15 months, I went to a hotel for a weekend away. I went to brunch with new vaccinated acquaintances […]

Embracing Growth at Our Edges
May 3, 2021
“Inward, Upward, Outward, Onward”
That’s my catch phrase to describe the essence of my new book, Stretching Your Learning Edges: Growing (Up) at Work. The book […]

Take a Field Trip
March 1, 2021
When I wrote Swimming in the Deep End I started by naming a few things I wasn’t ready to dive into the ‘deep end’ to […]