Academic Coach

Academia is a ripe environment for burnout, as its culture encourages overwork and discourages whole life integration.

A couple weeks ago I published a blog post about Liminality and the Job Market. Here I argued that while the majority of Ph.D.s end up without a tenure-strea...

“A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.” –Brutus, to Caesar, Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare The Ides of March—March 15—is memorable because Juli...

For the next four blog posts I will discuss different types of writing groups and how they can benefit your academic writing and style. This is the first in ...

Every January since the early 80s, when I first learned what a "resolution" was, I've been making them. As a natural goal-setter, list-maker, and Keeper of ...

This is the last in a series of posts about setting and accomplishing goals. Read about the steps of Looking back, recognizing and owning your worth, and dev...

In a TEDx talk, Rory Vaden discusses the problems with current approaches to time management. Rather than try to manage time, he says, you need to manage you...

As academics, we like to think we are smart. And we are, but not always with everything, and certainly not with the never-ending work cycle we set up for our...

I was talking with a client* recently about all the stress that they are dealing with: a couple major deadlines and yearly review coming up within the next 4...

At this point in the process you have spent time taking stock of your goals in the past, and where you have succeeded at reaching them (and celebrating those...

In my last post I wrote about the challenge of making resolutions that we can actually keep, rather than setting ourselves up for failure. It is key, when se...

I am suspicious of new year’s resolutions—according to the research of Prof. John C. Norcross (the University of Scranton), 45% of Americans make new year’s ...