Starting Over

It’s been too long.  I know this.  My voice got lost.  Life happened.  I’m on my way back. It’s a new beginning. It's starting with this post as a way to holding myself accountable by sharing my plan of getting back to the basics of three things I know I love - exploring, networking &...

A Month of Learning: Design Thinking

A few weeks ago I set an intention to explore various topics I was interested in over the next several months.  This month was all about design thinking. Here is what I explored: https://www.ideou.com/blogs/inspiration/what-is-design-thinking Gives a great overview of design thinking basics. https://dschool.stanford.edu/resources/ A lot of great how to resources from the experts that can...

Getting back in the game

I've been a little quiet lately, not as engaged. Mostly due to my feeling of stuck state but also because I don't want to keep doing things they way I have been doing them.  It worked for a while but then became a burden, a "have' to vs a want to. So what have I...

Reflection: My First Hackathon

I recently ran my first internal non-software hackathon to support the creation of a management development program. I had forgotten what it was like to do something I had never done before. It was scary. I was nervous.  I didn't have enough time to plan.  My colleagues, though they really wanted to, only had time...

Trust Through Consistent Action: Part 2

I'm still revamping my personal knowledge mastery practice (PKM) using (and beta testing) Sea Salt Learning’s Social Leadership cards ; ) I am also still working on the Trust Through Consistent Action card - this is part 2 of that series. It part 1, I shared that I wan't really being that consistent and that felt I...