Last week I received an email that really made me smile. It was from the Senior Manager of Inclusion and Diversity in a major U.S. retailer. He is organizing book groups for those interested within a 3,000 member work-group -- to read about and discuss books...

I fed my soul last weekend in Janesville, Wisconsin. For four days I bonded yet again with an incredible group of women who have been my friends for 34 years.  The eight of us have met at least six times a year, sharing our lives and our...

I just got back from something called the “May Meaning Meeting”.  Held near Houston, Texas this year, this annual gathering started in 2003.   It grew up organically around a group of organizational scholars anxious to keep real meaning in their work—and in their lives—in the...

Prior to my two strokes in October 2014, I had suffered Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in the late 1970’s and relapsed in the early 1980’s.  After remission I had odd side effects from the Chemotherapy and Radiation therapy, but generally I had a healthy life and...

Today is National Write Your Story Day. Telling my story has been an integral part of my recovery. Not my physical recovery—for that I thank the many therapists who have helped me.  But I have come to define “recovery” not just as getting my capabilities...