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Resolutions

Posted on January 12, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Can I finally start?” It was a question that popped into my head unwittingly as I sat in my office last week. I was trying to shake off the exhaustion from the holidays and begin an avalanche of work that I’d queued up for the New Year. Start what? In acknowledging the question, I felt as if I was on the edge of tears. It took only an instant for this feeling to pass. Even so I realized I’d crossed an important milestone for my transition, one that makes me think about New Year’s Resolutions and new beginnings a little differently. Continue reading →

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Tagged barriers, career transition, divorce, job loss, personal transition, retirement, transition, transition. Women & Transition Reinventing Work and Life, Women and Transition: Reinventing Work and Life, women's professional transition, women's transition process, women's voices, work family balance

Is transition for me…

Posted on November 20, 2015 | Leave a comment

“How do I know I am ready for all of this?” asked a woman who attended a talk I gave on Tuesday evening at our local independently owned bookstore. Picture folding chairs tucked in and around narrowly arranged aisles of books. Her question was an honest one. Transition seems like a big undertaking. Full of risk. Is it for everyone? Continue reading →

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400 and 2

Posted on May 2, 2013 | 3 comments

‘I’ve got young children,’ recounted a slight teenager as he retold of a pleading woman’s request as he worked to untangle her from the rubble of last week’s garment factory disaster at Rana Plaza, Savar, Bangladesh. 400. The number of workers, largely female, who won’t be returning to waiting children or siblings or spouses. $37. The average monthly wage that makes a difference there. Great hopes relinquished all for another tee-shirt. Great hope…despite tremendous personal risk. Continue reading →

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Tagged career transition, career transition issues, How Will You Measure Your Life?, linda rossetti, observations from a women's transition, transition, Transitions Making Sense of LIfe's Changes, women's transition, women's transition process

Summer Book Review #24: Smart Women Don’t Retire They Break Free

Posted on August 16, 2012 | 2 comments

‘It’s not easy to think about what I really want….for as long as I can remember it’s been achieve, achieve, achieve,’ I said to a friend of mine who joined me for lunch early in my transition. The concept piqued her interest. It engaged her. She’s a financial services entrepreneur. Her dream had been fashion design. And yet she found finance and accounting. A detour? A revelation? A necessity? Continue reading →

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Tagged Gai Rentsch, Herminia Ibarra, linda rossetti, novofemina, observations from a women's transition, Smart Women Don't Retire They Break Free, The Transition Network, the way of transition, transition, Transition Making Sense of Life's Changes, Wiliam Bridges, women's transition, women's transition process, Working Identity

Does Action Trump Everything?

Posted on March 1, 2012 | 4 comments

“I have a piece of paper that I’ve kept for more than twenty years. On it are two questions. ‘What do you want?‘ and ‘What are you willing to do to get it?’” said Sylvia Ferrell-Jones, President and CEO of the YWCA of Boston. Ms. Ferrell-Jones is a community leader who is advancing Greater Boston’s understanding of social justice and change. She and I happened to be guests at a dinner party of a mutual friend. Her comments emerged during a discussion among attendees about her organization’s goals: to serve Boston’s neighborhoods where health, education and safety inequities are most significant. It is against these formidable challenges that she measures progress. Continue reading →

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Tagged Action Trumps Everything, career transition issues, Eleanor Roosevelt, Herminia Ibarra, It's Up to the Women, Len Schlesinger, observations from a women's transition, personal transition, Sylvia Ferrell-Jones, women's transition issues, women's transition process, Working Identity, YWCA Boston

Transition Approach: certain versus confident

Posted on February 23, 2012 | Leave a comment

I remember a great NPR piece from the summer of 2009. I was driving in traffic, my typical commute. Eight miles in 55 minutes. The discussion’s topic was leadership. The reason it caught me was that it described leadership in two simple yet separate buckets; certain or confident. It hit me because I think that every leader I have ever worked under would think of herself or himself as confident when in fact they were more often certain. I wonder if this simple dichotomy works in transition as well? Continue reading →

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Tagged career choices, career transition, certain leadership, confident leadership, Herminia Ibbara, leadership styles, observations from a women's transition, personal transition, women's issues, women's transition, women's transition process, Working Identity

Barriers: Real or Imagined? (Take 2…)

Posted on February 9, 2012 | Leave a comment

“There was no money,” said my mother in response to a question I’d asked her last week about my grandfather. “He was pre-med at St. Bonaventure‘s,” she said. My grandfather was a 1st generation American whose Italian immigrant family had settled in upstate New York close to the turn of the 20th century. His father died when he was very young leaving a family of 6 children. His mother remarried. Tony – as my grandfather was lovingly known – never went on to med school. Continue reading →

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Tagged career barriers, career transition, career transition issues, HBS, italian immigrant family, Len Schlesinger, Mauel London, observations from a women's transition, Sheryl Sandberg, women's professional transition, women's transition, women's transition issues, women's transition process

Transitions & Negative People…..

Posted on October 13, 2011 | 2 comments

“She is living her dream,” said my daughter in summary of a friend we visited over Columbus Day Weekend 2010. If I had tried I couldn’t have figured out how to get that message across so simply and completely to my children. Continue reading →

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What’s your Agenda?

Posted on September 29, 2011 | 5 comments

” I wasted a lot of time,” confided a long-time friend as she described the years that she had not worked outside the home. She and I were having a conversation about her decision to return to work. At the time she had three high school aged children. The dialogue stayed with me.

A recent conversation got me thinking about this ‘wasted time’ exchange. A friend was out and about with a visible kick to her step. Continue reading →

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The Baseline: An elusive tool

Posted on September 22, 2011 | 2 comments

Last Sunday my family and I participated in the Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk. For those who aren’t Bostonians, the Jimmy Fund is the fund-raising arm of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute dedicated to supporting research on childhood cancers. My daughter and I were walking a pace or two behind our team. We happened to be interspersed with a group called Jessica’s Twinkling Stars. There were maybe 30 of them including 8 or 10 little girls about my daughter’s age. Each of the girls had a light purple crocheted hat; some hats were adorned with white flowers. My eight year old daughter was captivated by the hats. Continue reading →

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Resolutions

Is transition for me…

400 and 2

Summer Book Review #24: Smart Women Don’t Retire They Break Free

Does Action Trump Everything?

Transition Approach: certain versus confident

Barriers: Real or Imagined? (Take 2…)

Transitions & Negative People…..

What’s your Agenda?

The Baseline: An elusive tool

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