ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Let the beauty you love be what you do.

RUMI

RELEVANT STUFF

I’m author of three books and president of Only Connect Consulting, Inc. I have an MBA from Cornell University (full-tuition merit scholar) and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania (magna cum laude).

I am visiting faculty for Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, and have twice been invited on speaking tours in Australia by the Australian Institute of Management. I’m a certified practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Mensa.

My first two books, Networking for People Who Hate Networking (Berrett-Koehler 2010) and Managing for People Who Hate Managing (Berrett-Koehler 2012), have been translated into more than twenty languages including Cantonese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Marathi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish.

I’ve been featured in media such as ABC-TV, British Airways, CNBC, CNN, Cosmo, Fast Company, Forbes, Fox News, Redbook, Self, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, Wall Street Journal, and Women’s Health.

I’m a bit bored. Who cares about these credentials, besides my mother?

OTHER STUFF

I believe in the power of singletasking.

I believe we are increasingly bamboozled (I’m not sure by whom, precisely) to do more than one thing at a time, which is impossible.

I believe homemade cookies and a good laugh are the balm for most woes.

I love to dance. I could trip over a piece of string. I have never been able to shake my theater habit.

I take walks without my phone every day. I have three endlessly entertaining free-range cockatiels. I can’t resist talking smack with dudes twice my size at the gym, insisting I can out-bench-press them. I am most alive giving presentations and tumbling haphazardly down poorly maintained waterslides.

I have benefited from applying the Singletasking Principle to all aspects of my life.

I want you to, also.