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New year, new goals? Check out these posts for some inspiration and reminders that you aren’t alone.
She blends her expertise with wit and charm to make her topics approachable. Even more impressive is her ability to make space for everyone in her audience to contribute and feel comfortable asking questions.”
Dominick Raimato | Data with Dom
Workshop Participant | Mastering the Soft Side of Your Technical Role
She expertly weaves knowledge, professionalism, and enthusiasm into all her presentations creating a memorable learning experience that opens minds and unlocks potential. Kristen’s bone deep passion for learning and selfless desire to lift those around her is a rare combination that shines through everything she does. She is someone to follow as she carves out new paths.”
Erin Eide | NRI
Workshop Participant | Building Blocks of ROI
Charles Lakes II | charleslakes.com
She is kind, funny, easy to work with, and can synthesize complex information in a way that can be easily understood by anyone.”
Lauren-Zoe Robinson | Right on Cue Services
Workshop Participant | Mastering the Soft Side of Your Technical Roll
I've participated in several different focus groups led by Kristen. She has an innate ability to get people to talk, to keep them on topic (which can be difficult), and then to translate that information into a path to promote real change.”
-Katie Blomquist | Cricut
…of breaking down the ROI of deploying AI agents in an organization with quantitative numbers backed up by researched data. That helped me understand and provided me a way of explaining it to my team, coworkers and executive team. The emphasis on Collaboration of change management thru Knowing, Doing and Engaging is a good toolkit in the pocket.”
Workshop Participant | Building Blocks of ROI
Vibhor Jain | Manager Corporate Systems - Holman Enterprises Inc
She weaves research, humor, and inspiration into her speeches, leaving her audience both informed and empowered."
Andrew Reiser | Senior Change Manager
New year, new goals? Check out these posts for some inspiration and reminders that you aren’t alone.
Dear Resolution Quitters, First of all, congratulations. You tried! This month you had an idea of the person you wanted to be, and you gave it a shot. Well done! Secondly, there are no rules; there is no CEO of Resolutions that is overseeing this years’ goals; no manager that has fired you for not making it to the end. Meaning, you do not have to wait until next year to try again. This is your life, and you make the rules, so don’t give up…
So, how’s it going? We are one week into the New Year - have you stuck with your resolutions? Have you set any at all? Remember what we learned last week: resolutions are not about finishing, they are about starting, about embarking on a new path with your best guess of how you’re going to make it to the end….
On January 1, 2023 a good friend of mine and I poured some sparkling water and sat at her kitchen table brainstorming New Year’s resolutions. Once we had a list ready of our goals, we went to the store and bought a bunch of bottles of champagne. Most of the bottles were pretty cheap but they were a way of celebrating various achievements throughout the year. As we strolled through the champagne aisle, I decided to splurge; if I made it through the whole year and reached every goal, I would pop a bottle of Dom Pérignon. So I bought the bottle that day and in the wine fridge it has been sitting… for 16 months…
In the far back of our minds lives a place where dreams go to die. Little comments: it would be so expensive. Harmless thoughts: I don’t have time for that right now. Engrained concepts: I’m not built to do that. Systemic constraints: the world won’t let me do that. These are the words that start to build our box, and one by one all the things we were created to do end up there…
It's getting to that time in the year when, if you set a New Year's Resolution for yourself, you may be at the breaking point. If you are, this is probably the reason why: you reached too high. The image above is one I saw on social media at the start of the year. 22 goals for 2022. While I'm a sucker for alliteration, this is the worst set of goals I have ever seen. It is doomed to fail because it is too much…
The image of the Roman god Janus I think is very fitting when it comes to setting goals. When Julius Caesar restructured the calendar, he named January after Janus, the Roman god with two heads. The name comes from Latin, meaning "arched passage, doorway" and the two heads symbolize standing on the threshold of a new beginning…
Today, is my 200th Sunday Starter. That’s 3.5 years of consistently sending something out on Sunday mornings. I love that the 200th happens to coincide with the New Year. It is a time when many people are setting resolutions and the reason most people don’t follow through on those resolutions is because they forget to factor in consistency….