Recently, I was listening to Brené Brown’s podcast on AI, with futurist Amy Webb [“What’s Coming, and What’s Here” https://brenebrown.com/podcast/whats-coming-and-whats-here/] What struck me most about their discussion was a comment Amy made about the huge changes barreling our way: “Where I grew up, we had terrible wind, terrible cold. And when you learn how to
I don’t live in the Middle East. I’m not a congresswoman working in American politics. I wasn’t at the school that suffered a mass shooting the other day. I’m not a pregnant woman in Texas, unable to get a legal abortion. But I read about it, and I cared about it. I’m also not a
Most of my coaching clients right now are worried. Wherever they work, they see scared, burned out and/or resentful people trying to hang in there. But it’s a VUCA* world—and rather than that world being temporary, it looks like it’s here to stay. At least for awhile. Humans aren’t wired for protracted VUCA conditions. Feeling
Recently I was coaching a client who is seriously considering not only a job change, but a career change too. She wanted to explore being a dance teacher or a child psychologist, but worried that “I’ve been an engineer all my life, I don’t know how to do anything else!” This led to a conversation
In order to make sense of the world, we humans watch for, recognize, and interpret patterns. When there’s a problem, we ask ourselves how today’s problem is like a problem we have previously solved, apply our previous experience, and…voila! Problem solved. The trouble is, many of the problems we are currently facing are unprecedented. No