Category: Career

  • What am I doing here?

    What am I doing here?

    I love following directions. I love step by step processes. I love the story of the teacher who says “make sure your read all the way through before you begin” who ends that assignment with cancelling the assignment. I read all the way through.  Recipes. Lego sets. Puzzles. Sudoku. Quilting. I love being told what…

  • A Tale of Two Trainings

    A Tale of Two Trainings

    One of the happiest achievements in my life was going to the USSR as a junior in high school (1990). For almost three weeks, a group of forty StrangersBecoming Family from across the northeast US explored places and met people on the other side of the Cold Divide. The whole experience – from fundraising to…

  • Exciting Announcement

    Exciting Announcement

    ~from The Concord Leadership Group blog The Concord Leadership Group welcomes Emily J. Pitman as COO. We are thrilled to announce that Emily J. Pitman has been promoted to a forward-facing formal role with The Concord Leadership Group. Emily has played an active role with CLG’s CEO Marc A. Pitman in the development and work…

  • First Quarter Review

    First Quarter Review

    When I saw people begin to post reflections of their first quarter last week, I was convinced they had to be partaking in a massive early April Fool’s joke. I don’t now how many times I counted January, February, March on my fingers wondering if they really equal three months.  When I finally resolved that…