I’ve been thinking about change and transition a lot this past week or two.  I found several quotes about change that I’d like to share with you.
“People only change when the need for change becomes self evident.” ~ Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s
“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be […]

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One of the best books I read last year was What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith. In case you aren’t familiar with Goldsmith, he is the author of many books and a well respected executive coach. In this latest book, Goldsmith makes the observation that the characteristics that […]

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Last week, Marcus Buckingham was a guest on the Oprah show.  I’ve seen Mr. Buckingham speak on a couple of occasions and his message of identifying and building on our strengths is a compelling one.  I’ve been a proponent of this notion of focusing on strengths ever since I learned about the concept of Appreciative […]

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Today is Earth Day and I’ve been thinking about what I can do to be more eco-conscious. I recycle my newspapers, but that is about the extent of it. So, I’ve decided that I’m going to pay the extra fee that my county charges to recycle more paper products as well as containers […]

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I finished reading Eckhart Tolle’s book, A New Earth, a few months ago and I loved it. Now, I’m downloading the weekly webcasts from Oprah.com and watching them with great interest. I see why Oprah is so excited about this “web event.” The content of each webcast is engaging and has been […]

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I was a guest on a BlogTalkRadio program earlier this week in a segment about managing conflict in the workplace. The show, which is part of the WOW Women! Series, is hosted by Barb Giamanco. Barb is a fellow coach, business owner, and co-founder of Women’s Mentor Network (WMN). Listen to the […]

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If you are in a leadership position within your organization, it is quite likely that one of your responsibilities is coaching your staff. In a poll conducted by the Center for Creative Leadership of its Leading Effectively e-newsletter readers, 70 percent of the 262 respondents said that coaching others is part of their job […]

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A recent post in the Wall Street Journal blog, Independent Street, posed the following question: Executive Coaching - Worth the Money? I am obviously biased, but there are ample hard data and anecdotal data to answer that question in the affirmative. I believe coaching is most effective when it is used for personal […]

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One of the major highlights of my recent trip to New Zealand was meeting and interacting with the local people (AKA Kiwis) in an up-close and personal way. My husband and I had the priviledge of staying in the home of two wonderful Kiwis while visiting a small rural community near Wanganui. […]

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I haven’t added a blog post in the past couple of weeks because I was taking a break from routine and visiting the North Island of New Zealand. My husband and I were travelling with a group that included the men’s and women’s rugby teams from the University of California at Santa Barbara. […]

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