Category Archive:
Leadership

NEW | Building Relationships

In life, our relationships are the source of almost everything that matters.  Good relationships bring us happiness, fulfillment, opportunities, comfort, and support.  Our relationships keep us grounded during hard times. They enable us to thrive in our careers and our personal lives. They help us grow into our own potential. So why aren’t we ever […]


NEW | The Power of Listening

Inside this new course, you’ll get the entire step-by-step process to get good at listening – FAST. You’ll find out exactly what good listening is (and is not)… how to understand someone’s full communication… how to reach an important agreement… tools for highly-emotional conversations… specific skills for business and negotiation… and more… With The Power […]


NEW | Becoming A Leader

I’m excited to announce a new course, Becoming A Leader, the first in our Leadership Essentials series. With the Becoming a Leader course, you’ll discover: When you join Becoming A Leader, you’ll learn key characteristics and qualities you’ll need to develop to effectively lead any group of people. The course contains everything you need to know to […]


FREE WEBINAR | Teaching Civility

Teaching Civility

What are children learning from this mean-spirited time? What has happened to common courtesy? How can we magnify kindness and respect in both children and adults? Teaching civility is a topic that has been on my mind for several years now. In this 20-minute instant free training, Teaching Civility, you’ll learn how you can create […]


Think Big With Montessori Education

Think Big with Montessori Education

It was a quiet September morning, sitting around drinking coffee.  We were on vacation with friends and talking about what to do for the day. Then an email came in announcing that Jeff Bezos was investing $2 Billion for free Montessori-inspired preschools.  All plans for the day were put on hold. The game began. The […]


FREE WEBINAR | Planning For Summer Fun

Planning For Summer Fun

Are you concerned about having enough activities to fill up the entire summer? At home and at school? In this instant webinar, Planning For Summer Fun… Parent or teacher you’ll learn: All in under 15 minutes! Plus you’ll get an action guide to help you put it all together. Sign up below and you’ll go […]


FREE WEBINAR | Teaching Your Children Values

Teaching Your Children Values

In today’s world there appears to be a leadership culture that promotes ideas and actions that go against time-tested universal principles of human behavior. These principles have worked to build healthy individuals and cultures all over the world for thousands of years.  We know that there are physical laws, such as gravity, that if we […]


FREE TRAINING | Managing Oneself

Managing Oneself by Peter Drucker

As much as people say, “That person is a born leader,” the fact remains that we can learn to become a leader. I’d like to invite you to join a six-week complimentary email course, Managing Oneself, to learn how to be a better leader. Too often the terms leadership and management are used interchangeably.  Leadership […]


Pony Up

My natural proclivities tend toward optimism.  During these past three years of pandemic disruptions, though, I’ve had to remind myself more than once of the old joke about “there’s a pony in there somewhere.” As I visit with folks, parents and grandparents, we’re beginning to see the pony. It really is there! Our pony has […]


Educational Freedom

My schooling consisted of six elementary schools, one junior high, one high school, three colleges and two Montessori institutes. I’ve attended schools in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Oregon, Ohio, Washington, D.C, Germany, and Costa Rica.  The similarities in all these schools are striking in the fact that the teacher lectured at the front of the room; there […]