Beyond Emotional Intelligence

Acknowledgments

I've been blessed with a journey full of strong women as my examples. My mom was one of very few women working as an engineer in her field of expertise in the 1970s, who after being widowed at age 19 with a baby, went on to raise me and complete all but her thesis toward two PhDs, one in engineering and the other in industrial organizational psychology. Thank you for your immense generosity and support to me and my family over the years. To you I owe my chance at the life I'm blessed to be living. My Grandma Grace, who modeled both an untiring and relentless work ethic and unparalleled love and generosity, was the epitome of a Catholic Bodhisattva if there ever was one. Grace was my connection to my father, whom I lost as a baby, and was in her own right very much a second mom to me and to my daughter Sonya. Grace may very well be a contender for having made the greatest number of flour tortillas by hand of any single person over a lifetime—top 10 at least. I was at Grace's bedside along with my two aunts Dianna and Norma when she took her last breath. She left this world as gracefully as the meaning of her name, which mirrored how she lived her life. My friend Jane, who was the one person who truly saw me and understood both the complexity and simplicity of my being, thank you for seeing me. And last but not least among the women who have been my bedrock, my daughter, Sonya, the fourth in a long line of whipsmart and purpose-driven women who with her sheer ...