Live Action Coaching

This page provides audio recordings of coaching demonstrations that I’ve done over the years.  You’ll hear a variety of situations, both personal and work-related, with which my volunteer clients struggled. As a coach, there’s always more than one way to work with a client.  When I initially recorded these demos, it was fascinating for me…

Read More

Upside of the Recession

These days, everyone has a perspective on the recession. Peggy Noonan, a writer who I admire for her straight talk, recently wrote about the psychological depression that has descended on this country, a collective gloom that's not likely to go away any time soon. She observes: "The heart-pumping drama of last September is gone, replaced…

Read More

Geek Girls Band Together to Beat Recession

Last week, I blogged about a networking event that I had learned about at the last minute, a  Girl Geek dinner, hosted by Sun Microsystems. The CBS affiliate in Denver, KCNC, Channel 4 News, decided to cover it, complete with a camera person in the lobby of Sun. (I wasn't able to embed the video…

Read More

Patricia Ryan Madson, Part 3: Building Community and Moving Into Action

"Bold persistent experimentation. These are the times we are in now."–Patricia Ryan Madson This is the third and final segment of my interview with Patricia Ryan Madson, author of Improv Wisdom. I offer up suggestions on how to leverage her use of marketing, networking, and technology to create a vibrant community, based on the terrific…

Read More