After starting my career as a writer and editor, I moved into the world of training and leadership development. I work with a model of personality style called the Enneagram, and my book "Awareness to Action: The Enneagram, Emotional Intelligence, and Change" (co-authored with Robert Tallon) was published in 2006.  I have neen inspired by too many writers and teachers to list here. My goal in writing is to help people better understand their patterns of thinking and behaving. My philosophy is that we are at our best when we observe ourselves in action, reflect on our observations after the fact, and change based on those reflections. All of my writing is mere exposition on this belief.