Writer · Speaker · Army veteran
Hi, I’m Felicia.
I’m a writer, speaker, Army veteran, retired police lieutenant, and a person who spends a lot of time thinking about why people do what they do.
For most of my life, I worked in places where people were under pressure and decisions had real consequences. Those years left me with a lot of stories, a lot of questions, and a habit of looking closely at the systems we create—and what those systems bring out in us.
These days, I write and speak about work, human behavior, crisis, identity, recovery, and the complicated business of trying to remain yourself inside systems that would sometimes prefer otherwise.
Workplace Heretic
I call people who refuse to pretend a dysfunctional workplace is fine Workplace Heretics.
My book, Confessions of a Workplace Heretic, grew out of my own experiences inside broken systems and the years I spent trying to understand them. It is for people who care about their work but are tired of being told that the problem is their attitude, their standards, or their unwillingness to look away.
The book, card deck, workshops, and other Workplace Heretic projects all come back to three things:
Be honest about what is happening.
Set boundaries around what it can take from you.
Make intentional decisions about what comes next.
Writing, Speaking, and Other Things I’m Working On
Workplace Heretic is a large part of my work, but it is not the only thing I think about.
I write about the patterns that precede crisis, the strange ways people behave in groups, the stories we tell ourselves, and what happens when a life or identity no longer fits the way it once did. Sometimes that work becomes an article. Sometimes it becomes a workshop, a talk, a book, or simply a question I am still trying to answer.
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I’m glad you found your way here.