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Dorothy

Dr. Dorothy’s life story of coming from an orphanage, being raised in the housing projects of South Boston, becoming a Catholic nun, an international airline stewardess, a wife, mother, graduate faculty member, Clinical Instructor at a Medical School, and so much more provides the perfect backdrop for her message of joy, humor, passion and faith as the necessary tools for life.

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The Identity No One Sees Leadership

The Identity No One Sees

The cost of hiding behind competence. Power can be the most elegant disguise for loneliness. So many I have spoken to, surrounded by many admirers as well as family, are so immensely lonely, yet don’t always allow themselves to see that. “This is life.” “Life isn’t a fairytale.” No matter how we need to phrase it or understand it, loneliness…
Dorothy
November 9, 2025
the currency of energy
The Currency of Energy Leadership

The Currency of Energy

Power isn’t time or money — it’s energetic coherence. When we begin our careers, our businesses, or even our lives as young adults, planning a future with so much enthusiasm and dreams plus a wonderous sense of adventure we have little awareness that we are also envisioning what type of leader we will become. Leaders in our homes and in…
Dorothy
November 2, 2025
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When Winning Stops Working Success

When Winning Stops Working

The silent burnout of success. You’ve mastered the art of achievement. But does your life still feel like yours? I’ve had the experience, more than once, where although I loved what I was doing career-wise, it felt as if my work was governing my life. Almost as if there was no room in it for me. What amazed me was…
Dorothy
October 26, 2025
the 80/20 rule and your calendar
Make the Calendar Serve the Soul work-life balance

Make the Calendar Serve the Soul

Edge without erosion is a choice—architected, not hoped for. We all have them. A calendar serves a purpose especially for those of us who can forget so quickly. However, calendars also fail smart and visionary people. They’re built for other people’s urgencies. They are built primarily so we can be there to serve others and to fill a list of…
Dorothy
October 15, 2025
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When Success Costs Too Much Uncategorized

When Success Costs Too Much

What did you trade for your success—and was it worth it? So often, in this western world, we’re taught to pursue success at all costs. Almost as if our credibility or even our right to exist was dependent upon our level of success, whatever that means. I have seen so many clients, male and female, striving for success as if…
Dorothy
October 3, 2025
A leader facing burnout
Discovering the Leader Within Leadership

Discovering the Leader Within

In ancient times, even to a few hundred years ago, it was an accepted practice to have a rite of passage at the point of adolescence. Calling boys and girls, into adulthood, into their leadership. Sadly, in most places, that practice has been lost.  Sadly, because preparation for true success begins with personal transformation – the spiritual awakening – that…
Dorothy
September 26, 2025
Woman leader getting sick
The Health of the Leader Becomes the Health of the Culture Leadership

The Health of the Leader Becomes the Health of the Culture

Your nervous system sets the room’s metronome. The team always takes its lead from the leader. A regulated, purpose-anchored leader fosters psychological safety, better immune health (less sick-day churn), and steadier execution. A chronically stressed leader spreads urgency, illusions of control, reactivity, and errors - then wonders why “no one else can think.” The dynamics of the team usually then…
Dorothy
September 19, 2025
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The Play Dividend — A Two-Week Experiment As Fall Begins Leadership

The Play Dividend — A Two-Week Experiment As Fall Begins

If summer is the exhale, these next two weeks are your chance to remember how to breathe. Truth for high performers:  Have you discovered that you didn’t lose your edge—you lost your awe. It is so easy for busyness to become the brand, while joy gets outsourced to “later. However, play isn’t a perk. It’s the reset that restores judgment,…
Dorothy
September 16, 2025
Three Stoplights
Purpose Is an Energy Strategy Leadership

Purpose Is an Energy Strategy

Burnout isn’t a time problem. It’s a meaning problem. If we can remember when we were in our teens, and energy was an unlimited resource, we lived in a world where everything was of immense importance. It took little effort to get psyched about a party, a group of friends going out together, etc. Our greatest purpose was showing up…
Dorothy
September 12, 2025
Woman preparing an invoice
The Cost of Leading Without Your Core Values

The Cost of Leading Without Your Core

If your wins cost your well-being, they’re not victories - they’re invoices. There are so many ways to achieve what is viewed as success. Most of us learned that “hard work” was the most significant ingredient in success. Hard work always paid off. It was a simple value to understand if not always easy to execute. Hard work, however, doesn’t…
Dorothy
September 5, 2025