Category: Blog

• August 28, 2023

  Are we Post Post-Covid?

  You know what it was like… trying to lead an organization during Covid. At first, we didn’t know what we didn’t know. It felt like free-falling. Can we actually get this thing by touching groceries or should we wash our items down with Lysol wipes first? We had no PPE. We wanted our employees to…
• June 19, 2023

  Ella’s Eyes: What Diversity Training Taught Me

  This post builds off of what I wrote earlier here. After several years of helping to lead a significant and much publicized turnaround, the notion of doing something else in my career began to resonate. Additionally, in my personal life, I began to wonder about the true and lasting impact of my career and whether…
• January 2, 2023

  Why Resolutions Don’t Stick

  Many of us make New Year’s Resolutions. Some of us succeed. Many of us don’t. Lots of us have tried so many times and failed that we don’t bother any more. We can become jaded like that. Companies can view strategic planning in much the same way. Leaders may go through the motions of setting…
• October 24, 2022

  The Valuable Language of Value

  There are lots of ways to talk about value. The most straightforward would be to cite the formula: quality divided by cost. This is useful as it demonstrates the relationship between quality and the costs associated with achieving that level of quality. The higher the quality and/or lower the cost, then the higher the value.…
• April 1, 2022

  The Before and After Consultant

  I was incredibly fortunate to have secured a position with Ernst & Whinney (which turned into Ernst & Young while I was there… the first of many mergers in my portfolio) early on in my career. I had worked for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in a regulatory agency before this and that role was quite…
• March 31, 2022

  Welcome to my blog!

  I am long-time blogger (based on my outside-of-work interests) and have learned to: (1) write for impact… have something to say and say it well, (2) respect people’s time… get to your point quickly, (3) write often… stale is dead and dead is gone, (4) respect your readers… never spam, annoy or sell, sell, sell,…