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I am, and have always been, first and foremost a writer and editor. I've crafted and edited words to help organizations and individuals produce a wide variety of print, digital and electronic products, and leveraged words to gain professional expertise in the arenas of consulting, coaching, facilitating and training as well. My passion is to offer the gift of words to help people and organizations think more critically and embrace their life and work in a strategic, holistic manner.
 
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It’s amusing to sit in the aisle seat on a commercial flight. The passengers walking toward the rear of the plane look so serious, scanning for a potential seat like nervous freshmen checking out the opposite sex at a school dance—wondering if they’l...

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I wrote this in my journal last week: “All worthy institutions fade into irrelevancy in the absence of compassion.” The statement could have been referring to any number of “worthy institutions.” The government. The church. Corporations. Schools or ...

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There is reading, and there is writing. One is learning, and one is contributing. They are symbiotic; one reinforces the other, and both are essential. The challenge for me is choosing which one is best at any given moment.   Do I spend most ...

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Today, while touring a display of the works of blown glass artist Dale Chihuly, I was struck by a written summary of his work. Chihuly, a plaque on the wall asserted, is “well aware of the complexity and contradictions” that his glass medium holds. T...

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“Romantics” get a bad generalization rap. Usually the extra adjective “hopeless” gets attached to them—as in, hopeless to avoid colliding with pain, disappointment and disillusionment. The conventional thinking is that the more romantic one’s outloo...

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Sure, it was just a matter of time until I wrote a blog about Jim Morrison and The Doors.   I’ve spent the past few weeks immersed in an audio CD biography on the singer entitled, Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend by Stephen Davis. An even mor...

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Writing

I am an Addy Award-winning writer with more than 20 years of published credentials, currently focusing on books, blogs, articles, curriculum, marketing copy and songs.

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Leadership Consulting

Currently, I serve as an internal human resources leadership consultant with the 42,000-employee T-Mobile USA, America's fourth-largest wireless company and a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, one of the largest communications companies in the world.

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Executive & Life Coaching

Certified by The Gallup Organization as a strengths performance coach; endorsed by The United Methodist Church as a life coach and ordained by the UMC as a deacon; and a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF) and Tennessee Coaches Alliance (TCA), I have spent several years helping leaders at all levels become more effective at leveraging their strengths in order to garner vital relationships and improved results.

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Speaking & Training

Certified by Development Dimensions International (DDI) as a professional facilitator, I have more than a decade of experience in speaking, teaching and facilitating before groups and audiences of many sizes in both the profit and non-profit spheres.

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