Storytelling and Antiracism: Choosing Stories
This blog post is the second in a series about Storytelling and Antiracism. Click here to read the first post: Storytelling and Antiracism. Click here to download your FREE Storytelling & Antiracism summary and reading list. Storytellers do a lot when they tell a story. The storyteller’s voice occupies a space between the story and […]
Personal Stories are Professional Stories
Everything is up for grabs this year, nothing is certain, and a lot of us are in transitions we never expected. People have lost jobs or realize they don’t want to keep working the way they used to. That means there are a lot of people out there looking for a new direction that probably […]
Women Need Big, Audacious Goals
Here’s the situation this week. Really, it could be any week, but this happened this week. I’m giving a workshop on creating your personal professional story. Everyone has done their homework and brought their audacious goals. When it’s time to share goals, some people want to cure cancer or eradicate a disease. Others want to […]
We thought we knew the rules, now we’re rewriting them
Way back in March, the beginning, when we were only beginning to suspect that things might be a wee bit different in the future, we thought we had it figured out. OK, we didn’t have much figured out, but there was a sense to how the world worked or didn’t work for us. I had […]
The Reluctant Expat: Thoughts on Women and Leadership
My name is Christine and I’m an expat. I didn’t want to be an expat, I wanted to be a local. When I came to the Netherlands in 2004, I thought the deck was stacked in my favor. I had a Dutch boyfriend and a good 10 years of experience living abroad. It didn’t work. […]
Women and Leadership: enter Cinderella
This coming weekend, I’m going to talk to some Arnhem Together ladies about women and leadership. Me. Yeah, the girl who’s never had a formal leadership position, perhaps ever anywhere. For me to talk about leadership, I needed to reframe it. The working world hasn’t been my place for leadership. It probably never will be. […]