Author: Jennifer Hartnett-Henderson
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Winding Up Windy Hill
Over the past 2 years, several people told me I’d enjoy Windy Hill Open Space Preserve. I finally made it there! And they were right. The first weekend, I ran up Meadow Trail to Skyline, across Anniversary and Lost Trail, and down Razorback Ridge (about 11 miles). This weekend I ran up Hamm’s Gulch, across…
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Running Wonders at Ed Levin Park
I visited Ed Levin Park for the first time yesterday and as the moist fog cleared, a scumbled landscape appeared. This park was crazy beautiful. Tularcitos and Aqua Caliente Trails leading to Monument Peak were steep and passed two launch sites for paragliders and hang gliders. A free range Charolais bull blocked the trail but there…
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6 Takeaways from PBWC 2015
Last year I shared sketchnotes from the 25th Anniversary of the Professional Business Womens Conference. It was my first time to attend and it was fantastic. I had the opportunity to go this year along with 5,499 other women:). Here are 6 Key Takeaways and sketchnotes from this year. 1. Sallie Krawcheck, Chair of the Elevate…
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5 Key Takeaways About Leading with Big Data
Professor Florian Zettlemeyer from Kellogg School of Management did a great job of teaching the Leading with Big Data & Analytics last week. I sketch noted the course and gleaned 5 key takeaways. 1. Analytics Requires Managerial Judgement While analytics itself can be performed by experts, the decisions that it drives and that are needed for it to thrive…
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When Pollen Gets in Your Thinking
“Eventually everything connects.” Charles Eames Spring. Flowers. Here today. Gone tomorrow. In California, in a few short weeks, everything will be brown. This is when our new year should be. Not the dead of dark winter. This is the time of possibility and change. When pollen gets in your thinking, new things happen. When I…
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Bridge Cathedral
On a recent misty morning, I went for a run to scout the East side of the Fremont Bridge for a photo shoot. What I found in the fog was yes, a bridge, but also a soaring cathedral, full of skyward arches and graceful lines. Made of cement not stone so a modern day church,…
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Deep Listening
Deep listening, sitting with my fears in companionable silence, neither trying to deny them or fix them, instead looking at them to discern their shape, sift the physical observations, and through the fog that those observations trigger in me. Deep listening, sitting with the emotions of others. Intermittently, not trying to fix them. “I feel out…
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Take the Overgrown Path
The path was overgrown but there were horse hoof prints in the mud. Which meant this could be a trail. I followed it and discovered some closer views of something I’ve only seen from afar before. A power substation: It’s odd to me how the trails run so close to and even right under the…
