Insights That Spark Transformation
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Wisdom for the Journey Ahead
Whether you're an emerging leader beginning your journey, a mid-career professional seeking clarity, or a seasoned expert, these books offer meaningful insights to help shape your next steps. Each chapter opens with haiku, inviting reflection and deeper understanding.
CEO Catherine Glynn's first book, Leadership Distilled, is part storytelling, part Zen koan, and part practical guide. It challenges readers to examine their current practices while encouraging simple, creative steps toward more enlightened leadership.
In her most recent book, Presence, Distilled, Catherine offers an impactful guide for those seeking that je ne sais quoi—the certain something that sets them apart from the crowd.
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Coming Next!
Devising, Distilled
Catherine will soon be undertaking her third book, Devising, Distilled. A joyful collaboration with Core A.R.T. Ensemble member Jerome Yorke, Chair of the Visual and Performance Arts Department at the University of Dayton, Ohio. Together they will explore ten years of solo-ensemble building, creative practices and the art of consensus building.
Poetry & Articles
The Wise Fool
How I bill myself.
Nature’s Sweet Refrain
The Return
Clearing the slate
How do you learn best?
Recent Poems
Giving Wings to My Words Until I Grow My Own
wings
torn from my back
long ago
what crimes
committed
over centuries
sins
omissions
jealousy and rage
quiet after birth
later
much
time after time
yet
just on the other side
—the reverse of the mirror
the wings
are growing back
softly
painfully
emerging from my shoulder blades
and I wonder
how much longer til I fly?
-March 2015
Shards
poetry
like shards of a pot
placed back together
after shattering
at the discretion
of the finder
words lost/found
rearranged
a whole new vessel
formed from
another’s
point of view
go ahead
drop it again
I dare you
to start anew
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for Jerome
Inspired by M.C. Richards
What Would Virginia Do?
(An overdue ode to the Cascade River in Spring)
sepia swirls
over mocking white foam
conifers dance and
bubbles beckon
what would Virginia do?
would she wade into your
cold and mocking waters?
or would she look in her pockets
and find a shining agate from the shore
that captures her attention
to stave off her demise
for another day?
Suspended in Honey
hazy warm air,
a bee’s sense of laissez-faire
i run my fingers through my growing
golden hair
marveling that i feel young again
never mind the glimpse of my actual reflection
my true self possesses some
certain something that never really leaves
that j nais c’set qua
and leftover aplomb
that suspends my true nature
in a state of honey
golden, glowy
a little bit showy
sexy and sweet
but be careful…
do not add heat
i’ve no fear of drowning in it,
rather
what I fear
is that in some
strange suspended state
my mind will harden like amber
around an illusion
of fate
Just Enough
they knew just enough
enough to be dangerous
dangerous in ways that left others unsettled
unsettled–as in feathers ruffled
ruffled and or preening in order to be seen
seen by those who left
left –right–or wrong–their presence was still felt
felt in the way peril and elation merge
merge and confuse you
you cannot escape their wisdom
wisdom that comes from knowing
knowing just enough
enough to be dangerous
Ode to a House Finch
your dainty redhead
turning this way and that
attentive and attuned
ready to fly at a moment’s notice
ready for anything
(including my cats)
undaunted
present
liminal and light
ready for nothing
ready for all
perched in between
ever ready
always ready
to heed the call