My passion is to use my unique expertise and experience to help teams improve their attention so they can get aligned. As my clients will tell you, my presence as a teacher and coach enables teams to discover and sustain invaluable new habits. The result? Amazing collaboration. [...]
The contemporary workplace is full of seemingly uninspiring places and objects that actually have the potential (like anything else) to call us to an awakened and conscious state. Since we encounter them in our daily routine, our sensitivity to them is deadened by their familiarity. And then there [...]
Contact me to order any of my books: Cultivating Team Alignment (print or Kindle book, available January 2018). Contact me below and I'll notify you directly when the book is available. Mindful Habits for 7 Lean Practices (free e-book, available now via email) The Mindful [...]
Paying attention as a collaborative team is not hard--it just takes a little practice. Cultivating Attention shows you how. You'll learn to develop these habits: Stable Attention so your team can focus on what's important. Connectedness so your team can collaborate effectively. Open-Mindedness so [...]
Openness and curiosity means that you engage in a Lean activity (maybe one you’ve done dozens of times) as though you’re doing it for the first time–and you learn something new every time. Rather than just “asking why five times (well, maybe four or just three this [...]
In two weeks a team can learn to: Build stable attention so they can observe the present moment with curiosity and openness See their teammates, their judgments, their reactions and their challenges with clarity Take action together every day to stay aligned In two months alignment will be a [...]
I sang and taught Gregorian chant for 20 years - nearly as long as I have been working in technology. I learned a few principles that may have some relevance for technology delivery. When teaching a group class, my initial piece of advice was always the following: Sing loud enough so the [...]
In his Slideshare presentation on The Agile Method Ecosystem Agustin Villena makes the useful comment that Agile development functions much like fractal systems in nature: like the branching patterns of trees or the contours of a coastline, Agile delivery relies on a nested set of progressively [...]