Strategic Futurist | Speaker | Coach
Strategic Futurist | Speaker | Coach
A Labor Day post from a strategic futurist and women’s career coach In 1886, workers marched through Chicago carrying a demand so simple it barely registers now: eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will. The demand was about time. But underneath it was a deeper claim: that a …
Somehow, I manage to be very connected into the trends that may shape the future, and pretty disconnected from the trends that are currently peaking. Which is why I hadn’t seen a single episode of Survivor (or even Stranger Things) until recently. Scraping through the dregs of my streaming subscriptions I stumbled upon the entire …
The Year Ahead in AI for 2026 Discover 5 Futurist AI predictions for 2026 and how they’ll reshape women’s careers, leadership, and entrepreneurship—plus practical steps to future-proof your path. Picture this: You’re a Director of Operations staring at your calendar. Three “AI transformation” meetings this week. Your team’s engagement scores just dropped seven points. And …
What if your greatest leadership qualities are hiding in the traits you’ve been taught to suppress? At a critical point in my career, I had to prepare for a confrontational meeting with my boss – I had reached a point of total burnout and also one of complete frustration. She had been micro-managing me, not …
🚀 The Future-Ready Professional (And Why Most of Us Aren’t) Let me be brutally honest with you: Traditional career coaching is like trying to navigate with a printed MapQuest map from 1995 while driving through a city that’s being rebuilt in real-time. I’ve been watching professionals get blindsided by AI disruption, scramble to adapt to …
Condition Check The winds were headed easterly but my triangulation indicated gusts under 10mph. Turns out it would be great weather for a launch. I had been dreaming of this day for over two months. Somehow I had gotten the idea that I wanted to launch a model rocket, having never done it during my …
30 second summary In today’s tough job market, reaching career goals relies not just on your skills, but also on who you know. Networking is all about making and maintaining professional connections. It has become a vital way for people to find their dream jobs. Whether you just finished school and want your first job, …
At a point in your career the days will start to run together and you wonder what you are still doing on this path. Are you still the main character in your life or have you just been sticking to someone else’s script? You may be an NPC (Non-Player character)! Sometimes it can really feel …
For the past month, I and my fellow 80,000 colleagues are in limbo. The news that our company is about to lay off 7% of us leaked, and then was confirmed in the earnings report call. We have had a month to wait to hear which ones of us will be affected, and we find …
The experience of remaining “on board” at work after others have been let go may be like being a pirate on a vast ship. Some of your best mates are gone, you don’t know where the ship is headed next, or whether you want to be on board at a place like this. Some of …