I have an insatiable appetite for story and character. I will consume anything – books, long-form and short-form articles, long-form and short-form videos, running posts from favorite opinionators, fiction or nonfiction, poetry – as long as I can hook into …
Messaging about equity and racial justice: Part II
A few years ago, I wrote a piece about messaging on equity and racial justice. As a freelance writer and communications strategist, at that time I was getting asked to write about organization- and sector-wide efforts to center racial equity …
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Finding my way out of work ambivalence
I have a confession. In the past two months, I’ve thrown my hat into the ring for two jobs. Both were executive-level positions, and let me tell you, while I have an excellent resumé and can write a damn good …
You should get some (work) satisfaction
My son is going to graduate from college this spring. He goes to a film and media school for college, a decision that stemmed from so many factors: his love of Disney and Pixar from an extremely young age, our …
The Whys and Why-Nots of Narrative Change
I went to the Eras concert tour this summer with my daughter. She has been a Taylor Swift fan ever since she was a preteen; in fact, I took her to her FIRST Taylor Swift concert when she was 13, …
An oldie but goodie
(I keep a personal journal and I ran across this entry from December 2005. A lifetime ago! I decided it was worth re-posting because I know quite a few twentysomethings and the thing is, they all work very hard and …
The importance of reflective capacity
The other day, I was doing an interview for one of the kabillion case studies I signed up for this year* and the person I was interviewing, who struck me as a lovely, thoughtful person, used a term called “reflective …
Being up in your own head about work
It feels like every week brings another bad workplace story. Last week, Rolling Stone published a piece about Jimmy Fallon creating a toxic workplace environment on his show, Late Night. The piece included numerous reports from former and current employees, …
When communicating less is better
It is true that communications is my livelihood, and that I’ve made an entire career out of helping organizations communicate. The term “communications” covers a lot of things, so let me be more specific: I help organizations talk about who …
Being seen and rewarded at work
A dear friend and former colleague of mine emailed me the other day. She recently retired from an organization where I had worked for many years, most of them closely with her, and to this day, she remains one of …
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