Category: Field Notes
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A Blank Page About Care
A workshop on care, vulnerability, and interdependence began with a blank page. What I could not write down may have been the most honest response I had.
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Lead Beautifully, Live Beautifully
A leadership session in Florence left me thinking about responsibility, curiosity, and the danger of mistaking exhaustion for seriousness. La dolce vita may be less about escape than about learning how to keep the work and the life from becoming enemies.
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Respect Is Not Silence
I wrote respect ≠ silence in my notebook with a little more force than the rest of my notes. What followed was one of the most honest conversations I have been in about what leadership actually costs and what it should never require you to give up.
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The History of Florence is Full of Women…
Field notes from a walking tour, a city after dark, and five women who shaped Florence without being given credit for it.
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Why I Was in Florence
Field notes from a women’s leadership conference, and the beginning of a short series.
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Pentimento and Lunch
Field Notes from Florence on memory, return, and very good cheese.
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What a Visa Office Taught Me About AI Governance
Or: How I spent the better part of a week in Romania being told no.
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Learning to Orient While Abroad
Unexpected lessons in leadership, washing machines, and universal inevitabilities.
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Stories of Krakow: The Dragon, The Bugler, The Enchanted Knights
Maybe it’s true, maybe it isn’t. But these are the stories.
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Krakow: The Accidental Private Food Tour
My food tour was supposed to be a group event, but turned into a private tour of the city and its food and drinks.
Field Notes From Abroad 