I tried to learn French and German in my first year of high school. It was, at times, a chaotic learning environment. I remember a day when some students barricaded…

In 2017, I stood in a room with a group of other executives. I was stepping backwards and forwards in response to a list of questions.  The questions explored different…

No one likes hearing they’re not meeting their boss’s expectations, and neither did I. My first response was that the criticism was unfair – all that work was on track. …

When Steve Jobs bought the computer division from Lucasfilm and started an independent company called Pixar in 1986, no one could have anticipated its runaway success. Until Pixar came along,…

When I first met my partner, he was petrified of Dentists – not just one, but all of them. He had an accident that needed dental work when he was…

It was 2018. I looked at the Employee Opinion Survey results and was shocked. The trust in leadership scores had dropped significantly. Being me, I took it personally and brought…

On 3 July 1988, the USS cruiser Vincennes mistook an Iranian commercial flight for a fighter jet. The crew of the Vincennes, a missile cruiser, thought the Airbus was an…

Last night, my husband confessed.  He told me about a game he plays when we’re on a long drive in the car.  The types of drives where you chat, stop…

Everyone in my immediate family can at least draw an elephant’s backside – but not me. Some of them can do far more than that, including my daughter studying design. …

The room was packed full of women either committed to helping other women succeed or trying to succeed themselves when Dame Quentin Bryce took to the stage for her first…