Author: Marina Illich

  • Find Your People

    Find Your People

    This piece originally appeared in the Huffington Post in December 2014. Holiday time is family time. But what exactly do we mean by family? So many people live three time zones – or an ocean – away from their parents and siblings, turning travel “home” into a costly or time-sucking ordeal. Then there are the…

  • Marry Yourself

    Marry Yourself

    This post by NVW faculty member Marina Illich originally appeared in the Huffington Post. I don’t have enough. I can’t do enough. Indeed, I’m not good enough! Is this your mantra? I think it’s a mantra a whole lot of us intone daily, and with a frequency we barely notice. No surprise. Wherever we look,…

  • How Mindfulness Makes You Powerful

    How Mindfulness Makes You Powerful

    This post by faculty member Marina Illich originally appeared in the Huffington Post in July of 2014.  As an executive coach and leadership consultant, I think a lot about power in the work place and beyond. What is it? Where does it come from? How does it work? Conventional thinking has us believe that power…

  • The Heart of Mindfulness

    The Heart of Mindfulness

    This article by faculty member Marina Illich first appeared in the Huffington Post. A Sioux saying has it that the longest journey we’ll ever make is the journey from our head to our heart. As an Ivy League-trained academic, some part of me still winces when I hear this kind of adage, thinking it sounds…

  • The Power of Coming Back to Joy and How it Can Help You at Work

    The Power of Coming Back to Joy and How it Can Help You at Work

    This article originally appeared on The Shriver Report. As an executive coach, I work with women across the professional spectrum from high tech and bio tech to finance, hospitality and start ups. Many of the women I coach report how joyless they feel. Their calendars brim with activities, juggling product launches, organizational audits and transatlantic…