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It Took Me Nearly 40 Years to Figure Out What I Want to Do with My Life
Originally published on LinkedIn For as long as I can remember, I always had a word to describe myself. From early childhood through graduating college, it was very easy: I was an athlete. After college, I enlisted in the U.S. Army the day after the 9/11 attacks and...
Trick or Treating on the Lawn
It's an annual tradition every fall in Charlottesville that started in the late 1980s. A day when the masses of costumed children get to interact face-to-face with costumed University of Virginia students and faculty on the famed UVA Lawn. The candy... donated by...
Starting Over During an EMBA Program
When we started our Darden EMBA journey back in August 2015, the career advising center recommended we wait until after our China trip (which was last month) to make a career move as we would then enter electives and a slightly less aggressive schedule; I probably...
Blogging and Live Your Legend
I hope I’m not alone in this, but blogging consistently has always been hard. I’m always in love with the idea of writing. I’ve thought of and even launched multiple blogs in the past on veterans issues, travel, family life… some of my old entries are recycled into...
Talking Military Transition with Navy Federal’s Cutler Dawson
This morning, members of the Darden Military Association (DMA) had breakfast with retired Navy Vice Admiral and current President and CEO of the world's largest credit union, Cutler Dawson. We were the benefactors of Darden's executive leadership relationship with...
The Darden EMBA Video Blog with Brett Twitty
For anybody seriously considering Darden for business school, I highly recommend taking some time to watch some of the many great YouTube videos from Darden. I included some links at the bottom to help you get started. But I had a chance to sit with Brett Twitty...
Coffee and Chocolate with Shark Mountain
Many of my MBA for Executives classmates do not live in Charlottesville. It's unfortunate because they miss out on a lot of local opportunities through Darden clubs. I joined the Darden Military Association (DMA), Darden Technology Club, and the Darden Wine And...
Fall in Charlottesville
Everything seems better in the fall. The dreaded Virginia humidity and heat of summer gives way to cool breezes and beautiful temperatures. There's football. The leaves change. The kids go back to school. Coffee tastes more wonderful. In all of the places I've lived...
I’ve Never Kept a Single New Year’s Resolution
Originally posted on LinkedIn It's that time of the year again, when so many of us will arbitrarily make very broad, hard-to-measure New Year's resolutions... "get healthy," "spend more time with my kids," "drink less," "exercise more." I'm not against New Year...
Ten Thoughts About My Darden Executive MBA Experience
Originally published on LinkedIn When I applied to the Executive MBA program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, I didn’t even know what I planned to do with the degree. I figured the worst case scenario was my MBA would be a valuable tool for...
Books That Can Change Everything.
Originally published on LinkedIn Thank you to everybody for the tremendous support after my article earlier this week, "It Took Me Nearly 40 Years to Figure Out What I Want to Do with My Life." Not only the comments, but some of the heartfelt messages I received and...
It Took Me Nearly 40 Years to Figure Out What I Want to Do with My Life
Originally published on LinkedIn For as long as I can remember, I always had a word to describe myself. From early childhood through graduating college, it was very easy: I was an athlete. After college, I enlisted in the U.S. Army the day after the 9/11 attacks and...
Trick or Treating on the Lawn
It's an annual tradition every fall in Charlottesville that started in the late 1980s. A day when the masses of costumed children get to interact face-to-face with costumed University of Virginia students and faculty on the famed UVA Lawn. The candy... donated by...