It’s been about six months since Covid-19 first plucked us out of our routines and hurled us into an alternate universe. The ups and downs of our rapidly changing environment have me in a state that can best be described as perpetual energetic whiplash. When chaos like...

It’s 8:00 am and the house is eerily quiet, except for the familiar elevator music coming from my phone as I wait for my conference call to begin. Like most of you, I am slowly, reluctantly acclimating to this new normal, constructed of hodge-podge remote work, daytime...

How often do you start your day singing in a foreign language with 50 strangers?

I usually don’t either but that’s what I found myself doing on the first morning of Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead™ Facilitator Training program. The exercise was simple but not easy, and carri...

The ability to communicate effectively is essential in business, consistently rated as a critical factor in making an executive promotable (more important than ambition, education and hard work, according to Harvard Business Review subscribers). So how is it that most...

This month, I attended the third annual TogetherDigital National Conference (formerly known as Women in Digital). Year three of the conference brought with it the same buzz, sense of community, and dynamic learnings as the years before, but something about it felt diff...

When thinking of deep work, we often consider it within conventional containers like community service, non-profit work, volunteering and the like. Yet at its core, deep work is less about the work itself and more about the way we approach it. Zen Master Thich Nhat Han...

This month I completed my first ever Olympic triathlon. Six weeks of literal blood, sweat and tears spent in preparation for what ended up being a three-and-a-half-hour grind on the course. Training sessions entailed plenty of rainy swims, humid runs and muddy bike rid...

Change is good, but disruption is even better – it’s what leads us beyond the good to the great. The 2019 Day Show, hosted by AdCraft Detroit, took place this month and focused on the idea of disruption. The event brought a unique collection of speakers to the city who...

What does effective teamwork look like to you? While there are a handful of universal truths, it looks and feels different for each individual and every team.

This concept was recently explored by Jo Miller, CEO of BeLeaderly, an organization that offers workshops, web...

This month, the Detroit chapter of TogetherDigital (formerly known as Women in Digital) hosted an event centered on presence. We learned about Amanda Farley, Partner and Accounts Director of SSDM, a local digital marketing agency. What struck me the most about Amanda’s...