Hello, I'm Jeannie
I grow things in the yard and in the chat window. Both are experiments. Neither is finished.
I tell stories. Essays when they are finished, letters when they are not, and one of those goes out every Sunday. I curate what is actually working into something small and timeless. And I build the rooms that hold it, self-paced mostly, live once in a while and in small numbers.
Coaching runs through all three. It is how I work, not what I sell. I am not a life coach: I am a designer and a strategist, and what I redesign is work, a career, a business, a coaching practice, so that it fits the person it belongs to.
For over twenty years I have been a learning experience designer, which turns out to be the same skill as everything else here: help someone figure out what they actually know, and build something real around it. I do that work full time, and I write, teach and gather people here. I am working toward my MCC credential, because the how of this work deserves the same rigor as the what, and I am taking my time over it.
Lately I have been exploring what learning design and enablement look like in the age of AI, and in how I build things here. I would rather show you what that means than explain it in a sentence.
Outside of work, I am building a native plant garden zone by zone, which has taught me more about patience than most books have. I am an early and enthusiastic user of AI, not because it is trendy, but because it has changed how fast I can move from an idea to something real. And I would nearly always rather run a small version of something than plan a large one, which is how most of what is here got made.
Front porch. Wildflowers. A laptop full of half-finished things.
Same curiosity behind all of it. If you are here for the essays, welcome, and there is a letter on Sundays if you want the unfinished version of the same thinking. I am not selling anything at the moment, which means you can read as long as you like without anybody asking you for something. Come sit for a while.
Tell me what has been stirring. Or just say hi. I read everything, and I will write back.