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What I’m Reading, Summer 2026 Edition
As the school year draws to a close, I’ve been spending a lot of time in the car driving my kids to all sorts of activities. This has given me plenty of time to listen to audiobooks, which makes all that time behind the wheel a bit more palatable. As my long-time connections know, I’veContinue reading “What I’m Reading, Summer 2026 Edition”
Revisiting Civic Assembly: An update on my experience with Unify Akron
10 weeks ago I posted about my first impressions of deliberative democracy and civic assembly. I was just moving into my role as a facilitator for Unify Akron at that time. The closing ceremony was last week and the civic assembly has now come to a close. As we embark on the impact team phaseContinue reading “Revisiting Civic Assembly: An update on my experience with Unify Akron”
If you’ve been wanting to catch one of my talks or workshops, now’s your chance.
I’ve got a pretty packed schedule this summer between workshops and talks. I hope you’ll consider joining me at one of these great events in the coming months. Registration and more details:
It’s time to come home.
In a recent Wall Street Journal article entitled, The Midwestern Exodus Is Finally Ending, Jeanne Whalen and Paul Overberg report that the Rust Belt might be finally having a moment. It may be too early to call a Midwest Renaissance, but for the first time in years, the numbers are pointing in an upbeat directionContinue reading “It’s time to come home.”
Building a stronger community, one small business at a time
Given the opportunity, what would you build in your community? As the hellscape that is the tech industry continues to implode, more and more tech workers just like us find ourselves wondering what we’re going to do next. Both what we will do to continue to feed our need for creativity, autonomy, mastery, and purpose,Continue reading “Building a stronger community, one small business at a time”
“I tend to cry in the shower”
In a recent article in the San Francisco Standard, an anonymous Facebook employee shared the horror that is tech work right now. And the horizon doesn’t really look a whole lot brighter. How are you holding up to the constant pressure to do more, the non-stop change in focus, the angry and unfeeling comments fromContinue reading ““I tend to cry in the shower””
Join me June 2nd for “Small Business Operations: Growing your Business from the Inside Out”
I’m excited to share that I am participating in a FREE workshop series especially for small business owners. Together with Michalina Schnieder, Director and Certified Business Advisor from the Small Business Development Center at Ashland University, we will be discussing a number of topics critical to the success of your small business. I will beContinue reading “Join me June 2nd for “Small Business Operations: Growing your Business from the Inside Out””
Community Spotlight: Marketing that Makes a Difference at Hercules Express Wash
My advanced Leadership class, Leadership in the Trenches, ran last week at Madison Adult Career Center (MACC) and, per usual, we had a super engaged and compassionate group of leaders in the classroom. We discussed everything that a manager might need to thrive in the strategic, creative, volatile, and uncertain space that executives and seniorContinue reading “Community Spotlight: Marketing that Makes a Difference at Hercules Express Wash”
Join me May 18th for “Small Business Operations: Growing your Business from the Inside Out”
I’m excited to share that I will be participating in a FREE workshop series especially for small business owners. Together with Michalina Schnieder, Director and Certified Business Advisor from the Small Business Development Center at Ashland University, we will be discussing a number of topics critical to the success of your small business. I willContinue reading “Join me May 18th for “Small Business Operations: Growing your Business from the Inside Out””
It’s Official, my “Speak Up” cards are a hit. Get yours here.
Last week I ran my Conflict Resolution program (The Elephants Among Us: Talking about the Hard Things at Work and Beyond) for the energetic staff at the YMCA of North Central Ohio and I’m proud to share that, once again, my Speak Up cards were extremely well-received. Speak Up cards are a small deck ofContinue reading “It’s Official, my “Speak Up” cards are a hit. Get yours here.”
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