Joe Gerstandt | keynote speaker, freedom fighter, freak-flag flier

Some very cool things on the calendar: Working with Humans: Diversity, Inclusion and Collaboration (open-enrollment workshop) Des Moines, IA Tuesday, March 31st registration info Making Stuff Up:  Innovation for Non-profit Leaders (workshop) Omaha, NE Wednesday, April 1st registration info ICAN Women’s Leadership Conference (breakout session – Transforming Leadership) Omaha, NE Thursday, April 2nd registration info   [Read More…]

The third of three posts looking at the question of does social media = social change? I apologize for being long-winded…each of these posts has been too long. It is a big question. In the first post I tried to start painting the backdrop by remembering that we must be clear on what it is   [Read More…]

This is the second of three posts exploring the significance of social media…is this loud mess of things a new set of transactional tools or transformational in nature? The first post touched on the importance of asking serious questions, and a posed a couple of really important questions for consideration. In addition to making sure   [Read More…]

“Social Media” …our new favorite buzzword? …or more than that?  Is all this blogifying taking us anywhere? Meaning many different things to many different people social media consists of, at least partially, the twittering, blogging, networking, sharing, collaborating, communicating, contenting and contexting facilitated by the many tubes and pipes of our ever evolving internet. Social   [Read More…]

Next stop, Des Moines! Working with Humans: Diversity, Inclusion and Collaboration is coming back to Des Moines, in just a few weeks! Tuesday, March 31st 1:00 – 4:00pm REGISTER HERE     Do you work with humans? Any room for improvement there? If you are interested in being a more effective communicator, a more effective   [Read More…]

The world moves fast at times. Getting caught up on things, after a bit of traveling.  It was my privilege to spend a bit of time in Virginia, with Working with Humans workshops in Richmond and Charlottesville and a conference in Appomattox this past week. It is always, always good to be home, but it   [Read More…]

Projects by Christo Last week was one of those weeks, where nothing worked out quite like it was supposed to.  Our youngest daughter was sick and that threw everyone’s schedule into chaos, but it all worked out, and Friday was a wonderful ending to the week for me.  I am currently participating in Defining Leadership   [Read More…]

So.  I have written a couple of posts related to gender and leadership recently (Jan 29th and February 12th).  I find myself drawn back to the same topic today.  There are several ideas or themes that bring me back: I believe very strongly that we suffer from a critical absence of real leadership today.  Our   [Read More…]

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. -James Russell Lowell   A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. -Ralph Waldo Emerson   Freedom isn’t a matter of the future.  It’s a matter of the present moment. -Thich Nhat Hanh   There is only one corner of   [Read More…]