As a coach and PhD student, I noticed a number of people struggle with the loss of structure that comes with an opportunity to transition to working fully in your calling full time. …

My fascination with Colorado continues. The population has so many parts. One part native American, another tough mountain crowd, one part ski resort employees, and supplementing that part, are the resort attendees. Then, there are the granola cyclists that weave throughout all these parts, welcome or not, sometimes welcome. I…

“The Southern coast of Ireland was great!,” I said to our new pub friends in Dublin. “I just couldn’t make out with anyone in the town we stayed in because my family is from there. Didn’t want to end up kissing a distant cousin,” I joked. “That’s funny, but I…

Despite its troubled past, a tour of parliament at the end of the trip indicated the east-west tension between Northern Ireland and the UK was taking the heat off of the internal divisions stemming from the 1600s and prior. …

The arena was dark and my worries about who would be sitting next to me subsided as Jordan Peterson was introduced on stage and the cushioned fold out seat to my right remained open. His talk, however, was anything but the popular video clips about gender, climate change, or any…

“Looks like a place where you would get taken.” After traveling overseas for years and living on the fine line between trust and stupidity, I would have been really upset if I was taken while at a spa in Idaho Springs, Colorado. …

“How are we going to get back north?” I asked. It was the night before our AirBNB reservation ended in the desert surf town of Lobitos, Peru. We were over three hours away from our next destination. “Can we grab a bus?” I hoped we didn’t have to take another…

It seems counterintuitive that after certain experiences in the Coast Guard that I would miss aspects of military culture. However, after dealing with the University process of investigating and holding a person, with multiple abuse allegations against them, accountable for their actions, I see the parts of the military system…

Slow Cultural Change in the US Coast Guard: Decisions to Prioritize the Structural Frame over the Human Resource Frame in Addressing Sexual Assault, Harassment, and Retaliation The US Coast Guard has experienced challenges in making decisions to change the aspects of their culture that enable sexual assault, harassment, and retaliation among the ranks. The main challenge lies in how to make major cultural shifts in dispersed organizations in a timely manner, knowing that people will suffer…