Closing the Presence Gap: Simple tools for rediscovering this innate leadership ability

(The three people described below are each composites of a number of clients who have come through my public speaking  programs and services.) Jane was bright, experienced, and the only female on her work team. Frustrated, she felt that nothing she said at team meetings was taken seriously and her participation was frequently discounted or More…

Contemplative practices reduce anxiety

Several weeks ago, I gave a talk with Dr. Sara Lazar, neuroscientist and researcher at Mass General Hospital, a Harvard teaching hospital.  Sara’s research is centered on changes in brain structures that result from meditation and yoga. Her results are very interesting!  Basically they show that regular awareness (or contemplative) practices like yoga and meditation More…

Space… The final frontier!

Last summer I received an email in response to one I had sent out.  Something weird happened in the transmission.  All the space between words had been stripped away and the email I received looked something like this: LastsummerIreceivedanemailinresponsetooneIhadsentout. Somethingweirdhappenedinthetransmission.Allthespace betweenwordshadbeenstrippedawayandtheemailI receivedlookedsomethinglikethis: While I eventually was able to figure out what it said, it was More…