by Emily J. Pitman | Apr 8, 2026 | Coaching, Journey, Organizational Leadership, Personal Leadership
I learned to drive on an Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme in the 1980s. I am under five feet tall, and the seat of that car was not built with me in mind. My parents solved this practically and without fanfare: they bought rocking chair cushions and propped me up until I...
by Emily J. Pitman | Mar 25, 2026 | Coaching, Organizational Leadership, Personal Leadership, Storytelling
Something you might not know about me: I love and collect children’s picture books. I don’t mean this in a nostalgic, “I-used-to-read-them-to-my-kids” kind of way. I mean I actively seek them out, I think about them seriously as art and...
by Emily J. Pitman | Mar 11, 2026 | Focus, Personal Leadership, Values
How often do you balance your checkbook? I pop into Quicken almost daily — at least during the work week. I’ve found that staying on top of our transactions in small batches is far less overwhelming than letting them accumulate for a week or two at a time. And...
by Emily J. Pitman | Feb 11, 2026 | Coaching, Personal Leadership
The first (only?) time Marc and I attempted canoeing together wasn’t pretty. I was in my second trimester of pregnancy. We had been married for just four years. And we were leading a camping trip with a dozen high school students from the boarding school where we had...
by Emily J. Pitman | Jan 29, 2026 | Board Members, Organizational Leadership, Personal Leadership
Some of the hardest leadership moments come when you don’t have the authority to decide. You’re not the one running the meeting. You don’t get the final say. Your name isn’t on the door—or the org chart. And yet, you feel the weight of what’s happening. You notice...
