In my last post, about the possibility of transforming the elevator pitch, I touched upon a reframing of that question as “who are you?” In this post, let’s dig in deeper into this perennial question. What happens when we tell our story, when we answer “Who are you?” upon meeting someone new? Of course, it’s difficult to answer such a big …
Elevator Pitch Transformed into Possibility
Let’s talk about the elevator pitch. The often dreaded question: What do you do? On the surface it’s an innocent enough question and meant only to start a conversation, but it boxes us into a human doing rather than a human being. I personally would much rather be a human being. I appreciate and remember often the ‘be-do-have’ principle, and this …