Over the last two decades of work I can easily name dozens of colleagues that I have loved. Not in the superficial “I love that guy” sense and not in an inappropriately romantic way, but where I was able to deeply connect with who they were and truly love their whole, unique, and sometimes difficult …
Celebration! It is the five-year anniversary of Echo Juliette and its original tagline “Mindfully Leading the Next Generation.” When I created that tagline it was because I had spent nine months studying mindfulness and meditation. After weeks of intensive Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher training I started to recognize the power, and de-railers, hidden …
I had to say goodbye to a lot of people and things over the last year. It was difficult. Many of these were out of my control and I struggled to fully comprehend the void left in my world. Some were my doing. The loss hurt, but it was, as we like to say, for …
What is difficult and time consuming to build, but can be lost in an instant? That’s right, it’s Trust and it is both hard to come by and eroding quickly these days. Earlier in my career I took a role as the right hand person for someone I didn’t know who had a reputation of …
I intentionally delayed this issue so that it could coincide with International Men’s Day. It’s a day dedicated to acknowledging the issues men face and their contributions to the world. You may recall that I made July “Men’s Month” and every day in July I shared a post intended to celebrate and support men and …
In the last two weeks I have been thinking about networking groups and what makes them effective. I joined my first Employee Resource Group (ERG) on September 14, 2001. I was the most senior woman in the Office of the CEO and the Global Head of Diversity called me to ask for my support convincing …
There is a major lesson for the future of work happening in the Middle East right now. We have lived our whole lives with war and terrorism. So much so that we have created a line that says war should be respectful of innocent human lives. We should not bomb schools or hospitals because that’s …
You will not hear me say, “find your purpose.” That’s because I believe we all have the same purpose and it is to explore who we are as individuals and try to make sense of our place in this complex world. A simple yet challenging common purpose. People often think that having a purpose means …
Even those of us without children can feel the change of season from summer to “back to school”. Maybe summer casual dress is over, maybe your work colleagues are sporting a post holiday glow, or maybe everyone seems a bit more revved up for the final 1/3 of the year. Year end. That’s the season …
It’s a big vacation week around the globe and a bank holiday in the UK today. August Bank Holiday means Notting Hill Carnival where I once experimented with my Fish Eye lens. Notting Hill Carnival is the largest community celebration of Caribbean heritage in the world and it is designed to be a lot of fun. …
