About the Author
Leslie W. Braksick, PhD, MPH
Dr. Leslie W. Braksick is a behavioral scientist with a graduate degree in Public Health. She is currently an advisor to corporate executives and boards on matters of leadership, transitions, and change. She is co-founder of My Next Season, a company that specializes in helping people through transitions in life and careers.
Prior to starting My Next Season, Leslie co-founded and led The Continuous Learning Group, Inc., personally consulting to its senior-most clients for 21 years. Leslie is a published author of books and articles on matters of leadership and transitions. Best known for her concern for others, candor, and expertise in supporting clients through complex situations, Leslie currently serves on the boards of Princeton Theological Seminary and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Personal aha moments during the COVID-19 pandemic:
Athleisurewear is not overrated.
Hugs are essential work.
You really can connect personally with people over Zoom.
There is a strategy to Yahtzee.
The hope that Spring brings, has never meant more to me.
I have been blown away by the swift behavioral changes exhibited by people, in support of a concept they had never heard of before (“flattening the curve”), to avoid the spread of a virus that began with bats in China. Compliance has been at great personal inconvenience, with huge sacrifices and unrelenting negative economic implications. As a behavioral scientist, the unwavering alignment of our population, followership, and faith in what we were being directed to do by medical experts, has reduced me to tears on many days. I would not have thought it possible, behaviorally. The people stayed home.