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Wishing, Dreaming, Working
I figured I would take a minute to share some vision and what I've been up to “We are socialized to see what is wrong, missing, off, to tear down the ideas of others and uplift our own. To a certain degree, our entire future may depend on learning to listen, listen...
What is the Work that is Yours to Do?
Not gonna lie - it's hard to know where to begin. From the ongoing protests demanding justice for Ahmaud, Breonna, Rayshard and all the other Black lives lost to police brutality; to demands for policing reforms; to the dismantling of visual symbols of White supremacy...
For White people who want to work for racial justice
My work in the world as facilitator and consultant revolves around advancing equity and dismantling racism, specifically in organizational culture. In this time of heightened racial tension, it is incredibly important to do the external work of being an active ally by...
It’s in the Water
Here at the end of May in the time of Covid, the nation is reeling from both the death of George Floyd by a Minneapolis policeman as well as the blatant racism of Amy Cooper towards Christian Cooper in Central Park. Both are symptoms of the same problem - deeply...
Everyday is Today Part 2
As I said in Part 1 of Everyday is Today, a bad meeting is worse online. Adding strong facilitation techniques and some virtual management helps make online meetings the best they can be. A helpful place to start is using Leadership Strategies 6Ps. Answering each of...
Everyday is Today
“Everyday is today,” said Tom Hanks on Saturday Night Live sometime in the last Groundhog day of quarantine. “There is no Saturday anymore.” The days just blur together and, to paraphrase Dylan Thomas, “One day was so much like another that I don’t remember if I had...
Culture is the New OS
The pace of technological change far outpaces my ability to keep up. I feel pretty bad-ass when I update the plugins on my website (even though my website is out of date!) I know about "zaps" and Buffer and SEOs and most days my smart phone doesn't lord it over me...
Slow Dialogue Movement
With all the accelerated whirlwinds that make us lurch from thing to thing, I am advocating for the slow dialogue movement! The slow food movement has been around for a long time and there are also slow design and slow cities movements, so why not slow dialogue? I...
Courageous Conversations
In my work helping people have courageous conversations across differences, I am often asked about how these conversations line up with keeping the peace at work or how one is supposed to just carry on after not just a misunderstanding but after very real differences...
Words with Privilege
My beloved and I play Words with Friends - an online game that vaguely resembles Scrabble. Words with Friends is way looser and allows you to play words like “ut” or “thouing” - words that many dictionaries don’t recognize and certainly that you never use in casual...