Excellence has been a hallmark of my career. I am trained as a process improvement SME, have operations experience, and my doctoral dissertation was on performance excellence at the industry level. But as life and responsibility have expanded, excellence alone is no longer my primary goal. It feels heretical to […]

Many high performers move through a familiar progression: from being reactive, to enhanced structure, to optimization. Early in our careers, life and work can feel reactive. You’re responding to what’s in front of you and doing your best with what you have. Then as you grow and mature, you often […]

Not many people talk about suicide, because it can be an uncomfortable subject to discuss. Every year, approximately 800,000 people die by suicide, which is approximately one person every 13 minutes. This is more deaths than all wars combined, and the third cause of death for people aged 15-44. It […]