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Cogitate and Percolate

Cogitate and Percolate

XR, Instructional Design, and remote team leadership

Category: Leadership

If You Have Not Taken A Leadership Course, Start Here

I’m grateful that a #leadership course was required in my PhD program*. It’s the ONE COURSE that I use EVERY…
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Posted on: December 28, 2025 Last updated on: June 29, 2026 Comments: 0 Written by: Heather

Diversity training gone bad

I’ve been sitting on this blog post idea for awhile. But it’s St. Patrick’s Day and some good hearted self-deprecating…
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Posted on: March 17, 2024 Last updated on: June 29, 2026 Comments: 0 Written by: Heather

In mourning

  I’m half British. It is a purposeful decision of honor, not a cute decision, to be known on LinkedIn…
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Posted on: September 11, 2022 Last updated on: June 29, 2026 Comments: 0 Written by: Heather

The Battle of Chrysler Farm (not about the Battle of Chrysler Farm)

 See this place above? That’s the Visitor Center at the Battle of Chrysler Farm Historic Site at 13740 County Road…
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Posted on: August 30, 2022 Last updated on: June 29, 2026 Comments: 0 Written by: Heather

Bizarro World Training

    Photo by Christopher Machicoane-Hurtaud on Unsplash  I was given an assignment to go over good student appointments on…
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Posted on: August 15, 2022 Last updated on: June 29, 2026 Comments: 0 Written by: Heather

Leadership Lessons

  I’ve got a longer leadership post coming on (related to my own meme above) but I wanted to pause…
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Posted on: August 11, 2022 Last updated on: June 29, 2026 Comments: 0 Written by: Heather

Dr. Ellie Sattler, Jurassic Park, and Narrative Plot. Or It Wasn’t About Dinosaurs.

  It’s a rare moment when I can bring 3 themes into 1 post: leadership, XR, and design. Also, I’m…
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Posted on: June 15, 2022 Last updated on: June 29, 2026 Comments: 0 Written by: Heather

Leadership should be simple and confident

  Photo by Justin Clark on Unsplash “For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple. For a…
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Posted on: June 11, 2022 Last updated on: June 29, 2026 Comments: 0 Written by: Heather

Do not worry about the numbers

For many years, I worked at an institution that prided itself in its competency-based model, which then drove data-based decision…
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Posted on: March 9, 2022 Last updated on: June 29, 2026 Comments: 0 Written by: Heather

You gotta suit up for them all

  Photo by Brandon Mowinkel on Unsplash Heather’s Book on Leadership*, Chapter: Leadership Lessons from Sports, page 297: “You win…
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Posted on: January 27, 2022 Last updated on: June 29, 2026 Comments: 0 Written by: Heather
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