A noodle scratcher is a fun way of saying a head scratcher. That is: an idea that stops you mid-stride and makes you think. This blog is where I collect mine. ‘Tis a place where I think out loud and ask myself, and awesome people like you, questions.
It started in 2017, after my sister told me she’d lost touch with what I was up to. So I began writing her short notes about what I was noodling on. The notes became a blog, and the blog became a habit and here we are.
By day I’m a leadership coach, facilitator and keynote speaker. I run Human Periscope, where I help leaders and teams develop the real, human skills of leadership. Skills like hard conversations, telling a better story and helping others grow. I also co-host The Long and the Short of It, a weekly podcast with the brilliant Jen Waldman.
Posts here are short (because so are our attention spans), don’t carry dates (good ideas shouldn’t expire), and they usually end with a question rather than an answer. That’s on purpose. I’ve found the quality of our lives has a lot to do with the quality of the questions we’re willing to sit with. Or noodle on. See what I did there?
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Thanks for being here,
Pete Shepherd.