About Heather
Hello, and welcome to Miriam’s Wisdom, where I aim to equip you with inner tools to enable a strong and vital leadership in a rich and healthy life. I have a thirty(mumble)-year career in software organizations, having done programming and analysis on projects of varying scale, process development, quality management, software testing, configuration and release management (back when releases still came on CDs), database design and development, large-scale data analysis, statistical programming, information compliance, product management, Agile enablement, management, and rescue of badly fragmented and conflicted teams. I’ve been the Utility Infielder at work for several years now, where we’ve joked that my job title really should be Other Duties As Assigned. I love what I do, and it’s a real privilege to have a career as a generalist in software development.
I’m also a PhD student in epidemiology, having finished all my coursework and entered the research and dissertation phase. I’ve learned so much as a result of this program, about disease and human behavior as well as about myself and my approach to my daily work. I’m happy to share with you the ideas and tools I’ve learned for cultivating a healthy life and a meaningful leadership. A lot of those ideas are the same across our lives: self-compassion, empathy, kindness, taking a long-range perspective, embracing uncertainty. And a lot of the tools for living out our beliefs and values in these areas are the same, regardless of whether we’re talking about our jobs, our families, our academic life, our emotional life, or our spiritual life.
I’m so glad you’ve joined me here at Miriam’s Wisdom, and I hope you’ll hang out for a while. When you subscribe, you’ll receive articles once or twice a week by email. With a paid subscription, you’ll also receive the monthly Kindness Calendar for free (regularly 99c), as well as discounts on other printables and courses. I’ll be adding more features to the paid subscription—which is going to be free for the entire month of May 2026!—in the coming months, and I hope you’ll drop me a line sometime to let me know what’s working for you and what isn’t.
I look forward to working together, cultivating wisdom and nurturing leadership.