“America: the land of the free and the vacation-deprived”, this according to an article in Huffpost on 6.7.2019. For an immigrant from Finland who has called the USA my home for 21 years my fellow…
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Resiliency Wins
Sunday Summary: Avoid excessively personalizing others’ poor behavior towards you or criticism of your performance at work. It’s not about you, it’s about them and their behavior. Relevant criticism is about your work performance –…
Living and Leading with Purpose – Why I Coach
As we are celebrating International Coaching Week, I decided to share my path to coaching and why I coach… here is my story: It’s a sunny, humid and warm June afternoon in New York City…
Being a Change Whisperer
Most people experience times in their careers when they question their choices, wonder about opportunities lost, or roads not taken. Sometimes this is prompted by changes in one’s personal life; aging, becoming a parent, losing…
Why Attend the FIGT Conference? My Interview with Cristina from Move2YourBestMove
This interview appeared in the FIGT Newsletter 17 February 2015. Cristina Bertarelli grew up in a beautiful small town in Italy on Lake Como, in a family that rarely traveled abroad and preferred to vacation…
Managing Change – Rites of Passage
The lovely summer is behind us. Those of us who are parents are emerging from the hectic back-to-school season with its emotional highs and lows and are now moving towards the soon approaching Holiday Season….
Spring-Creating Opportunities for Something New
This spring has been busy. Spring usually is. The outdoor sports season starts for the children so nights and weekends are spent cheering at my daughter’s softball games and my son’s tennis and track &…
American Optimism, Finnish Sisu and Old Fashioned Grit
I grew up in a small town in western Finland. My family was a typical middle-class Finnish family, except that we come from the small Swedish-speaking minority. Both of my parents grew up on farms….
Finnish SISU
A couple of years ago I gave a presentation on SISU-Resilience the Finnish Way at a conference. Today I’d like to revisit and elaborate on that topic . In Finland we have something called Sisu….
The Constant Gardener
I like to garden. When I am not working or being a mother and wife, I am gardening. It’s become an obsession, I admit. After spending several weeks traveling, either for work…