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Career Disappointments and Grief

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Sometimes – more often than I want – I have to disappoint my career consulting clients. I hate it. But I am coming around slowly to the idea that my job is to tell people the truth so they can […]

Self-Coaching: Love

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It’s Valentine’s Day. What else was I going to post? Questions to get you thinking about love: What does love feel like to you? Is it difficult to love someone? Is loving yourself a concept that makes sense to you? […]

Rituals for Remembrance

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It’s my dad’s birthday next week – February 11.He’s been gone for five and a half years now, but I still miss him. I still miss my dad, and I don’t want to forget him. My dad was a […]

Self-Coaching: Making Space for Ideas

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As you may recall, 2018 is my year for crazy ideas and failure. That’s great to declare and all , but where exactly do I get the crazy ideas? I mean, I have crazy ideas, but not enough to […]

Three different takes on systems thinking

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The abstruse but brilliant Robin Hanson posits that human behavior is based mainly on showing off. How do we use that for social benefit? “A piece of metal is a knife because it is used as one…” Philosopher Samir Chopra […]

Coaching in action: preparing for stress

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My husband spent a year at an unaccompanied posting with the US government. He wasn’t a solider; he was a bureaucrat. But it was a year away from me and the kids in an environment where there was risk of […]

Let’s Talk Coaching

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Specifically, why you might want to coach with me. My focus as a coach is on helping you find clarity and courage. If you feel unhappy at work, but don’t know how to change that, coaching can help. If you […]

Useful reading: Global Health Security

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The Wall Street Journal published an article a few days ago that CDC was scaling back its overseas work. I didn’t pay much attention at first – CDC and USAID share funding and responsibility for US participation in the Global […]

Self-Coaching: Motivation

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This may seem like a simple question, but for most of us it’s not: What motivates you to do your best work and take on difficult challenges?

“Alanna’s direct yet humane approach comforted me. Her knowledge helped me understand my behavior. Her concrete advice helped me develop actionable steps towards managing my emotions and becoming more assertive.”

“I approached Alanna to help me make a decision at a major professional crossroads. I was ready to leave the organization where I had spent all of my public health career, but I wasn’t completely sure what I wanted to do next, or frankly even how to make that decision…Alanna’s direct yet kind approach helped me discard some of my own deeply entrenched ideas about what the “right” move for me would be, and on a more tactical level helped me quickly eliminate some options that just wouldn’t be a right fit.

My sessions with her helped give me both the clarity to pursue a new professional opportunity, as well as some concrete tools to help me manage the difficulties I faced as I wrapped up my former role.”