Why I want to be a trainer

Why I want to be a trainer: this should have probably been my very first blog post, but here it is anyway at #5.

This is a piece that I wrote as part of an application to what Apple calls the In-Store Guest Trainer career experience.  This was 2012, before I started the Master's at Temple--before I even knew such a degree existed--and as much as I knew what I wanted to do, I had never thought about why.

Global Readiness

At the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square, March 2013

"To be successful in today's business world, you must be culturally aware."  It is a refrain heard often, both in business and in academia.  Is global readiness something that can be taught in a classroom, or is a cultural sensitivity that must be engendered through a more kinesthetic, experiential learning process?