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Being Your Own Boss: Going Solo Takes a Team
Reflections on my experience being self-employed. Pt 4: The long legs of advice, maintaing personal relationships and realizing it is a team effort.
Being Your Own Boss: The Busywork of Social Media
Reflections on my experience being self-employed. Pt 3: How a lack of clarity about my business manifested into a wasteful and exhausting approach online.
Being Your Own Boss: Hidden Costs of Going Solo
Reflections on my experience being self-employed. Pt 2 Hidden costs, what to spend money on and when to take the wait-and-see approach.
Being Your Own Boss: Figuring Out What To Do and How To Do It
Reflections on my experience being self-employed. Pt 1: Learning the difference between what you do, how you do it and the evolution of both.
On The Way to Leadership: Building Blocks of Opportunity
Reflecting on 4 building blocks of opportunity on the way to leadership.
Discovering My Speaking Style: From Quaver to Confidence
Think having the gift of gab makes for a great speaker? Think again.
Whose Story Is It?
I make 3 decisions every time I write or speak in public. Storytelling - communicating - with intention, serves a purpose. (2 min read)
When People Disappoint You: Part 2
They were my mentor. A trusted advisor. Someone to look up to. They were also a bully. (4 min read)
Why Change Management?
To better understand why the discipline is important, let’s scope the impact of a single modification inside an organization. How far-reaching can one change really be? (3 min read)
Leadership Lessons Learned at a Racetrack
Ego. Extremes. Consistency.
You cannot win on track day, but you can definitely lose. (3.5 min read)
Speaking Up Meant Standing Alone
Leadership means one day, looking around the room, waiting for someone - anyone, to do something, and realizing you are that someone. (6 min read)
Pay Equity: The Buck Starts Here
I had no idea I was enabling pay inequity as a junior leader. Look for these red flags to avoid my mistakes. (2.5 min read)
Performance Reviews: I Broke The Rules & Put My Team First
I haven’t met a bad process I haven’t ignored…learn how I replaced the outdated 8-page performance management process review with just 2 questions. (4.5 min read)
3 Mistakes I Made as a Woman in Tech
I made things more difficult for myself by trying to ‘go it alone’, to prove that I deserved that seat at the table. Don’t do what I did. (5 min read)
When 'Cultural Fit' Permits Bias
Cultural fit create a slippery slope allowing bias to creep further into the hiring process. (3 min read)