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Interrupt! The Unwritten Scripts Men Inherit and the Identities they Create

September 24, 2026

Across decades of work in organization development, leadership consulting, and global cross-cultural work, I have watched men navigate pressures they rarely articulate. I have seen how cultural expectations shape their choices, how silence becomes a survival strategy, and how inherited scripts about power, identity, and belonging follow them from childhood

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The Unfinished Business of Women’s Rights

March 9, 2026

This month commemorates the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday and the historic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, undertaken to advocate for voting rights for Black Americans. Additionally, the United States observes National Women’s History Month throughout March, as well as International Women’s Day. In 1965, the

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I AM STILL BECOMING

February 1, 2026

On this first day of February 2026, I pause long enough to feel the truth rising inside me. I am still becoming. Becoming more self-aware. Becoming more honest with myself. Becoming more willing to sit with my identity–my successes, my wounds, my lessons, my contradictions. I am learning to exist

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Walking the Tightrope – Today’s Women in the Workplace

December 17, 2025

A Here and Now Moment HR Future Magazine’s recent article titled “The State of Women in the Workplace 2025: Progress, Setbacks and What Comes Next,” dived into key points concerning women in the workplace. Takeaways were: It cited progress but noted women still fall below the Organization for Economic Co-operation

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I’m Sorry – I Can’t – Don’t Hate Me

October 8, 2025

Like the infamous break up post it note from the hit TV Series Sex and the City I Am Breaking up With the Alphabet Letters D-E-I so, Don’t Hate Me The Breakup: When The Alphabet Letters D-E-I Became Disposable They called it a “strategic pivot.” The press release was polished,

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You Just Don’t Understand

September 25, 2025

When Men, Women and Culture Talk Remember the “men are from Mars and women are from Venus‘s guide to understanding differences between men and women? Understanding and recognizing planetary differences provided background for why men and women were at odds with each other. Tannen’s work explored the dialogic tensions that

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Through the Looking Glass: Why Your Reputation Shouldn’t Be Crowdsourced

July 30, 2025

It’s About Selling and Telling and Owning Your Story Perception: The Funhouse Mirror of Reality Perceptions are a bit like those funny carnival mirrors—sometimes they make you look taller, shorter, or swirl your image into an unrecognizable shape. The truth is, what people see when they look at you says

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The Incredible Shrinking Aged 55 and Older Worker

July 29, 2025

Regain Your Power and Define Your Own Identity Employees ages 65 and older are one of the fastest growing slices of the U.S. workforce. Smart companies are paying attention (HR Quarterly, 2025). Branding debates aside, one’s personal identity shouldn’t be defined by others’ perceptions. Despite my experience coaching CEOs and

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Leaders Can’t Pour From An Empty Cup

July 15, 2025

Like all living organisms, e.g., plants, animals, trees and shrubs, teams require sustained nutrition to remain healthy. Leaders today face radical uncertainty with events “moving far outside the boundaries of what we know from the past. When the shape of the probability distribution can’t be mapped, leaders tend toward paralysis”

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Unconscious Bias – A Rearview Mirror Concept

July 16, 2020

I have not posted a single, solitary word since George Floyd died on May 25, 2020. The disbelief and shock stayed with me long after the images were no longer being replayed, and so, I paused. During the pause, I reflected on the hours of unconscious bias training I have

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