Field Notes: Ideas in Practice
Tools and reflections for the “stretch moments” in leadership and life. These “field notes” make up a living library of artifacts developed through my work with clients, designed to help you navigate ambiguity, confidently author your path ahead, and create forward motion towards your goals.
Tools that build momentum
PERSONAL STRATEGY
Ambition often locks us into a "When/Then" equation, leaving us waiting until the finish line to feel the way we want to feel. This all-or-nothing approach not only creates burnout risk, but often deters us from setting goals in the first place. The STARS framework offers a new architecture for goal-setting, helping you shift from "hunting" for satisfaction to creating it.
EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP
Why do smart teams and leaders so often talk past each other? It’s usually an “Altitude Problem.” This two-part framework helps you diagnose where context breaks down and provides a protocol to strengthen communication upstream and downstream—ensuring you can actually “land the plane” when complexity threatens to take you off course.
Practices for Sustainable Leadership
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What if burnout isn't about the volume of your workload, but your relationship to the work? When you internalize systems problems as personal ones, you don't just exhaust yourself—you lose the exact operational distance needed to actually solve them. Discover how to stop metabolizing the chaos and learn to solve problems without absorbing them.
Essays on Self-Authorship
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‘Set the Signal’ To Fuel Your Effort
What if instead of asking what you want your life to look like, you started with what you want it to feel like? Explore the psychology of drive and learn how to replace the finite resource of "willpower" with internal alignment. (This article expands on the first step of STARS goal-setting framework.)
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‘Tune the Sensor’ to Shape Your Reality
Your brain receives 11 million bits of information every second but processes only 50. Discover how this massive editing process shapes your reality, and how to step into the Director's chair to ensure you aren't leaving your best opportunities on the cutting room floor. (This article expands on the second step of the STARS goal-setting framework.)
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You’re Meant to Be Off Course: The Myth of the Right Next Step
Progress rarely happens in a straight line—it’s built through motion, feedback, and continual adjustment. What might shift if you stopped waiting to feel “ready” and trusted your ability to course-correct as you go?
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You Have to Think About the Notes: The Transformative Power of Attention
Transformation requires intentionality, which starts with simply paying closer attention. How might bringing deliberate awareness to your patterns allow you to stop playing the same old song, build powerful new habits, and author a stronger next move?
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The Welcome Committee: How Choosing Your Role Changes How You Show Up
We often shrink or expand depending on the role we think we're in, but the way you show up is more flexible than you think. Learn how to break out of rigid identity by borrowing confidence from your successful past and deliberately authoring your role in any situation.
