Guest Blog Post: Transforming the World Starts With Transforming Me

Mark Vandeneijnde is a graduate of the Transformational Presence Leadership and Coaching program and a very active member of the Transformational Presence community. As an experienced Market Researcher (previously 10 years with Proctor & Gamble) and ICF Certified Coach Mark specializes in helping businesses reconnect with the essence / the heart of their organization. Through…

Remembering September 11, 2001

It was a gorgeous late summer day in New York City. I had been out to walk my dog in Riverside Park and was settling in for a full day of voice teaching. Seems like a lifetime ago that teaching opera and Broadway singers in New York was my career. A few minutes after 9…

Transformational Leadership: Making the Extraordinary Ordinary

Lately I’ve been pondering what it is about how we show up that makes the most extraordinary transformational work possible. What keeps coming to me is that, while others may perceive what we do as breakthrough, extraordinary, or even miraculous, to those of us doing the work, it somehow needs to feel ordinary, normal –…

Finding the Courage to Follow Your Vision

Those of us called to do transformational work often have big visions. Sometimes a vision is so big or “out there” that others tell us we’re crazy or that there’s no way that it  can be accomplished. Yet that vision won’t let go of us. It’s part of who we are and why we are…

Lights. Camera. Action. Now!

When I first wrote about taking a radical step a few weeks ago, I had no idea what that would spark in me. It’s been an amazingly productive few weeks of creative output, facing down fears, and renewed energy. The fears part – they were little fears really – more like discomforts – they weren’t…