It's been a minute. January, actually. That's the last time I showed up in your inbox, and I want to be straight with you about that.

I didn't disappear because I lost interest or ran out of things to say. The opposite happened. The last few months have been full of activity, and I let this slip while I was in the middle of all of it.

Here's the short version of where I've been:

I presented at the ISPI conference in Nashville in April. People came up afterward telling me how what I said about meetings changed how they saw them. And they were excited about signed copies of my books. It was a surreal moment.

I have presented about meetings with a group of professional coaches for the Fowler

I just got back from the Global Scrum Gathering in Vancouver a couple of weeks ago where I ran a session called Dojo Dynamics on using Gamestorming to build real team capability. Something happened at that conference that I want to tell you about in my next email — a conversation with a woman who challenged something I believe deeply. She was right to push back, and it sharpened how I think about my own work.

I published an article in Business Coaching Magazine called "Your Meetings Are Telling You Something. Are You Listening?" — which might be the clearest thing I've written about how meetings reflect organizational culture whether leadership is paying attention or not.

I presented to a small group of certified professional coaches at the Fowler International Academy for Professional Coaches on how meetings work as a diagnostic tool.

I've been building out a community called the AI Entrepreneur's Table for business owners figuring out how to actually use AI without the hype. And I've been doing the quiet, unglamorous work of running a consulting practice with calls, proposals, early mornings, and late-night strategy sessions.

All of that is real, and none of it is why I'm writing today. I'm writing because I want to change what I talk to you about in these emails.

Up until now, I've mostly used this space to share updates and point you toward my book or my websites. That's fine for a launch, but it's not enough to earn a spot in your inbox every couple of weeks. You can get updates and acess to my free newsletter from LinkedIn. You don't need this email for that.

What I want to do here is go deeper.

I want this to be the place where I tell you the real stories about what I am learning. The moments from conference hallways and client sessions and my own mistakes that don't fit neatly into a LinkedIn post. The places where I got it wrong before I figured out what was actually happening. The stuff I'd share with you over coffee if we had an hour and nowhere to be.

Grounded. Specific. Honest about what I've tried and what I'm still sorting out.

That's the plan. Every couple of weeks, something worth reading. Something you can actually use.

If that sounds like your kind of thing, you don't need to do anything. Just stay.

If your inbox is already too full and this isn't where you need to be right now, I get it. No hard feelings. The unsubscribe link is below.

But if you stick around, the next one's a good story. A professional at the Global Scrum Gathering in Vancouver and a five-word sentence that made me rethink how I talk about what I do.

More soon.

P.S. Here’s the Amazon link to my book: https://a.co/d/1QpVuFi

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