where I talk with my inside voice
The past year has been tumultuous. I haven’t really talked about it here, but with the loss of both of my parents last year and the upheaval at my employer, when I got to the end of 2024, I had to spend some time reflecting on whether or not I was on the right path. After ten years as a...
This has been a challenging year – drama at work and losing both parents – it was a lot. But there was plenty to celebrate too. Not least of which is the establishment of The Pipes Family Foundation. We won’t really get that rolling until next year, but the hard part of setting everything up is done, now we just...
After 27 years at Boeing, I finally got an opportunity to travel to the company’s heritage site of Seattle, Washington. We recently reorganized and our team is now part of an enterprise group that does modeling and simulation. This was a summit meeting of the new management team and despite a couple of long days, we still had a bit...
I started my current job at Boeing in Sep and our group’s new director was named in Nov. He invited the members of his leadership team to meet in Huntington Beach for an off-site meeting which was an opportunity for all of us to meet one another in person.
I headed to San Diego this past week for a two-day conference called the Global Diversity Summit to learn more about how we can use diversity in the workplace to make our business more successful. There were some interesting break-out sessions and a few of the keynote speakers were inspiring. We didn’t get much time to sightsee, but luckily I’ll...
