Thanks for each of your unique ways of providing support and celebration in leadership, and in friendship. Most of all, for tolerating this seemingly unending need of mine to overextend. You are a group of inspirational leaders and extraordinary women. I am so proud to be amongst each of you.Linda Coates, I thank you for your teaching, your "wicked sharp" research mind, and perhaps most of all such a solid friendship. I have such value for writing with you, your willingness to proofread, and always ready to talk about any idea.Allan Wade. It now spans a decade since you introduced me to a new way of thinking and working, and you've patiently coached and cajoled along me the way. You believed I could do things that I wasn't sure I could, and somehow they've been achieved. I'm grateful for all that you've taught me, and that I continue to learn from you. Mostly, I value this incredible friendship that we've formed.Cathy Richardson, I'm extending heartfelt thanks for your lessons in humility and joy, while you move through the world with unwavering solidarity to whom you are from, and what you believe. I'm not sure that you mean to teach as richly as you do, it is just who you are. I'll be forever grateful for the candle that you lit in support of me, and my family.Sheila McNamee, I chose the Taos Institute to learn from you and this was a perfect choice. Your encouragement and grace throughout this process has been needed and so incredibly appreciated. A PhD is not supposed to be easy, and it wasn't. Your guidance and teaching made such an unbelievable difference, and has changed me.Celeste Wilderom, I will always be grateful for your support and guidance, and the vision that you have for this work. The University of Twente has provided a special partnership at the end of a very long journey.
Management and Staff atInterior Community Services, this has been such a significant place of employment, with an incredible group of people for so many years. It is here that I have learned so much of what I 'know' with everyone around me.Colin Saunders, Jacqueline Walters & Vikki Reynolds, I thank you for your time and the conversations along this path that have helped so much to guide and encourage my thinking and writing. Each of your words and influence are inside this paper.