Equine Experiential Learning Blog

Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don’t get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new.  Nolan Bushnell (www.brainyquote.com) Recently, a colleague of mine in the executive coaching field told me about a conversation she had […]

When was the last time you entered an interaction thinking one thing and then realized later on that what you initially thought wasn’t accurate?  Most of the time this misalignment of perceptions is harmless.  But sometimes it can have strong negative implications on the outcome of the interaction. Often we are not aware of our […]

Absolutely. Parents do it every day. Organizational leaders do it every day.  In my work doing leadership development coaching in partnership with horses, participants often start out with an assumption that the horses “should” be compliant when asked to do something, like move where a person wants them to go.  When the horse is not […]

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions. – Robin S. Sharma A colleague with whom I am working to launch an in-depth diversity training for leaders recently asked me to join her […]

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.          Charles Kettering NOTE: In light of the ongoing challenges we as a human race are facing with social injustices, I’m reposting this blog from several years ago as I think it is relevant to where we are […]

      “Most under-communication is inadvertent. People are simply unaware of the gap between what’s in their mind and what’s in yours, and you suffer from that same lack of awareness. In fact, a team of researchers writing in the Journal of Political Economy labeled this phenomenon ‘the curse of knowledge.’ It means that […]