5 Powerful Leadership Lessons the Numbers Forced Me to Face
In 2025, my company missed its numbers. Even writing that now catches in my throat. I entered the landscape field in 1986 and I've led The Garden Continuum for over 27 years. After decades in this industry, I'm no stranger to weather delays, staffing headaches, or the unpredictable nature of building a business around living systems. But this season was different. It wasn't that I was idle or unaware. It was that I was following the ...
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Pot-Bound or Uprooted: 2 Hidden Traps Stalling Women-Owned Landscape Businesses
After 40 years in this industry, I’ve learned that plants and women get trapped in some of the exact same ways.
Why Clarity Isn’t Enough: 5 Shifts Toward True Alignment in Leadership
I came home from Cape Coral, Florida this week with more than notes.
5 Ways Smart People Who Get Silenced in Meetings Recover Their Voice
You can be prepared. You can be competent. You can be kind. You can even be right. And still, a single power move can shut you down so fast your body reacts before your mind has words.
What 35 Years as an Employer Taught Me About Leadership and People
Seeing humans as possibility, not resources
Why Small Actions Matter: Finding the Real Meaning of Impact
This morning I found myself in an existential spiral about impact.
When the Work You Love Wears You Down: How to Lead With Grace
The river in Costa Rica was rushing, cold, and impossible to predict. At first, it looked shallow enough to wade through, the kind of current you could control with balance and will. But the moment I stepped into it, ...