Want to start making progress toward your health and fitness goals? Let me know if I can help!
Life Purpose Coaching Certification
Just completed a course in Life Purpose Coaching, a process which helps people identify and align their lives with their purpose and passions. What is your purpose? Are you living in alignment with it?
Reading List for Personal Transformation
Seeking guidance for personal transformation? Here is some suggested reading. These are books which have influenced me strongly (for the better) over the years:
Blind Spots? Not Me!
Why we keep repeating our mistakes and sabotaging ourselves . . . unknowingly:
https://marthabeck.com/2011/11/seeing-your-emotional-blind-spots/
https://liberationist.org/how-to-conquer-your-blind-spots/
Life Coaching Certification
Realizing the same skill set I’ve focused on organizational transformation for many years can also be applied to personal transformation, I recently became certified as a Professional Life Coach by Transformation Academy. I’m excited to extend my work with change management to helping individuals achieve their goals, fulfill their potential and live their adventures. Stay tuned for more information about coaching offerings!
Congrats to CNHSA on their Quality Journey!

Why Baldrige is Good for Healthcare
Here’s my white paper outlining why the criteria of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program are good for healthcare and how the Oklahoma Quality Foundation can help state organizations get started.
If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going, Any Road Will Do
I recently served as “Academy Professor”for Oklahoma Quality Award Foundation’s webinar on Solving the Mystery of Measurement, “If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going, Any Road Will Do.” Here’s the recording. If you are in business (of any sort) and want to learn how effective measurement can help you reach your goals, give it a listen.
Is There Waste in Health Care?
To many the answer is obvious: Yes! But here is a policy brief from Health Affairs that provides some data on the subject:
Lean Thinking: The Rest of the Healthcare World Starts to Catch On
NPR is talking about lean healthcare and its increasing usage in hospitals. It reminds me that it was 10 years ago when we started the journey at INTEGRIS Health, a journey which is paying great dividends in high quality and great patient care. See the NPR story at the link below: