When Barbara Roche asked me to be a part of Reel Chicago's Reel Women series, I was over the moon. Although it feels like a lifetime ago, the majority of my career took place in film and advertising. It's where I learned and practiced leadership skills day-to-day....
Nothing like moving a few pieces of furniture around to shift perspective. My office was starting to feel stagnant so Sunday I came in to reevaluate. I moved my desk and the shelves. Even the printer table found a new home. It was like a magic trick. My office...
I'm playing with a new habit these days: The JUST SAY NO habit. It's an experiment to build up my "No" muscle which has atrophied over the past 18 months. Like the rest of the world, I didn't have much to say no to (aside from Netflix and zoom cocktails). Now I'm...
When people ask me how I'm doing lately, my response is: "I'm changing gears." With life opening up at what feels like an exponential rate, some days I'm barely keeping up. It feels like the time I learned how to drive stick on the Chicago Speedway. I had under a...
If we want results, we need space. Space to think. Space to work. Space to dream. Space to create. So what do we do now? How do we cope when everything happens in the same space all of the time? Here's how I've been doing it in my space:...
This is the second in a series of five blog posts on the key components of Emotional Intelligence: Self Perception, Self Expression, Interpersonal Relationships, Decision Making and Stress Management. In our last blog post, we spoke about Self Perception. Today...
This is the first in a series of five blog posts on the key components of Emotional Intelligence: Self Perception, Self Expression, Interpersonal Relationships, Decision Making and Stress Management. Let’s jump right into the first building block of emotional...
Whether you landed that big assignment or doubled your billings, it really doesn’t matter. What matters now is that you take an honest look at what DID happen. What are you most proud of? What frustrated you? What were your top 3 accomplishments? What were your 3 biggest disappointments?
Blocking time into focused chunks makes our brains happy. When our brains are happy, they work better. When the brain works better, we’re more productive and more importantly, productivity becomes easy and fun.
