lgarrick
Female
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58 years old
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United States
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Last updated 4/21/2008 5:09 pm
I am founder and principle consultant of NorthShore Group, where I focus on leadership and organizational change. http://www.northshoregroup.net.
This year, with the help of friends and colleagues, we began a project called Million Ideas for Peace. The purpose of this project is to define social activism in a new way that is positive, inclusive and supports what people are doing in everyday and extraordinary ways to create of a culture of peace. Our current services include workshops for Cultivating the Art of Active, a blog to collect a million ideas, a global peace map, links to other groups or individuals who share our values and research and publication. For information, see http://www.millionideas4peace.com.
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Searching for a way to give back, a Seattle leadership consultant took a leap of faith. I was reading the book, "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert, said Lucy Garrick, organization and leadership consultant. I had been looking for a way to do something around the concept of peace and raising the status of women. I was floating in the pool in July with no consulting work in sight, so I petitioned the universe for consulting projects in exchange for a life devoted to world peace. Ten minutes later, my phone rang and when I answered, I heard someone say, ‘Hello Lucy, this is Riane Eiser.’ I was stunned speechless.” Read more...
