Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Susan Turnbull

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Susan Turnbull is the founder and Principal of Personal Legacy Advisors. She the author of The Wealth of Your Life: A Step-by-Step Guide for Creating Your Ethical Will, and creator of Life Legacy Cards and the Life Legacy Conversations Tool, all designed for those who agree that wealth transferred to future generations has both tangible and intangible dimensions. Susan is a member of the Boston Estate …

I can’t stop thinking about “Barbie”

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Photo: Author (notice the flat feet on the middle Barbie) I saw the Barbie movie twice. I can’t stop thinking about it. I needed to see the movie twice because the first time I was thinking too much. Not only did the movie move quickly –especially the dialogue was fast! The movie triggered past memories such as: I knew in …

Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Ayse Birsel

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Ayse (pronounced Eye-Shay) Birsel is one of the world’s leading industrial designers. She has designed hundreds of products, from toilet seats to office systems to potato peelers to concept cars. You’ve probably held or sat on something she has designed for Herman Miller Knoll, Target or Toyota, among many others. Her work has earned her several nicknames—Queen of Toilets, Queen Bee …

Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Christine Sperber

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Home is Baja and Breckenridge for this former pro snowboarder who’s launched and operated hotels, produced events on beaches and glaciers, managed pro athletes, and worn the hats of writer, restaurateur, and more. The common thread? Christine is passionate about creating experiences that change people’s lives—be it in our classroom, our community, or in our workplace. Christine cares deeply about …

Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Gena Cox

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Dr. Gena Cox,⁠ CEO of Feels Human, LLC, is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, and author of ⁠Leading Inclusion⁠, an award-winning guidebook for corporate leaders who want to build inclusive organizations from the top down. Before this, at IBM and Perceptyx, Gena advised leaders in the Fortune 500 and other large global companies to build psychologically healthy and engaging organizational …

Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Bruce Rosenstein

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Bruce Rosenstein is Managing Editor of Leader to Leader, a publication of The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum and Wiley/Jossey-Bass. He is the author of Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way, (McGraw-Hill and Brilliance Audio, 2013) and Living in More Than One World: How Peter Drucker’s Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life (Berrett-Koehler, 2009). He worked for USA TODAY …

Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Jacqueline Wales

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At only sixteen years old, Jacqueline Wales fled from her childhood home in a desperate search for happiness. Looking in all the wrong places, she left a trail of abandoned children and a pattern of self abuse that threatened her life. But that’s just the beginning of her story. From Leith, Scotland, to London, England; from the California coast to …

Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Chana Duskis

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Click here to register for Chana’s workshop! Read from Chana herself: I am the youngest child of Reb Zalman Schachter Shalomi Z”L and his first wife Tziporah Faygl. I have 68 years of Life Experience. I am currently not retired but “Reinspired” and ready to share Sageing with you with special insights of having been raised by Reb Zalman as …

Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Jenn Lim

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Jenn Lim is the bestselling author of Beyond Happiness, and the CEO of Delivering Happiness [DH], a company she and Tony Hsieh [the late CEO of Zappos.com] cofounded to create happier company cultures for a more profitable and sustainable approach to business. DH has worked with or spoken at more than 400 companies and organizations worldwide, including Starbucks, Sallie Mae, Lockheed Martin, …

Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Shelley Paxton

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Think Brené Brown meets Biker Babe, with a dash of Liz Gilbert. As former Chief Marketing Officer of Harley-Davidson, Shelley Paxton found herself at the top of the proverbial mountain feeling success-EMPTY instead of success-FULL. That awakening led her on a profound Soulbbatical journey that became her mission, business, and bestselling book, Soulbbatical: A Corporate Rebel’s Guide to Finding Your Best …