Gifted Professionals and Communicators Journal

March 8, 2025

Kerrie Hawkins: The Architect of Connection in a Fractured World 

By Sia Papageorgiou, Co-Founder, Gifted Professionals & Communicators Some people follow career paths. Others forge them—taking the scenic route, collecting knowledge, questioning systems, and building bridges where none exist. Kerrie Hawkins is the latter—an architect of connection. Gifted professionals don’t fit neatly into career boxes. They see patterns before others do, chase […]
March 4, 2025
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Communicate Instead of Consume

Writing Time Must Excel Reading Time to See Progress. Or Money, even. Why are you here? What can I possibly do to knock your socks off? As for me, here’s why I’m coming to the GPC Community every day and actively seeking direct emails and conversations with professionals, communicators, and gifted adults. […]
February 5, 2025
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Is Communication in a Coma?

What Does This New World of Communication Mean to Our Community? Let’s say most of the members of our GPC Community are 45 or older and learned communication principles and practices when freedom of the press was the law of the land and your job or main relationship to the press was […]
January 13, 2025
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Everything Is Always on the Line

How to shift from doing everything to doing what matters most Three things are messing with our minds and it’s time to bring this to you—our community of professionals + communicators + exceptionally bright adults and see if you are thinking, feeling, or experiencing this too. There is anxiety and restlessness brought […]
January 7, 2025
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In School, Did You Peek the Other’s Answers?

The Main Reason The Teacher Said Stop Looking At Your Neighbor’s Paper The fastest way to ruin your life is to follow someone else’s plan. The fastest way to get your first trip to the principal’s office is to peek at your neighbor’s paper, on the desk next to you, hoping to […]
January 3, 2025
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Transformation Questions Build Curiosity Muscles

Better Questions For Someone at Your Advanced Level What a year! Did anyone get the license number of that truck that just ran over us? Do you have more questions than answers these days? Can I count on you to step into the GCP Community to help us sort this out and […]
December 20, 2024
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Productivity for the Gifted Professional

An Entirely Fresh Approach for a Neurodiverse Brain When I first wrote about productivity, I did not know I was gifted. That was five years ago and many transformative, mind-blowing changes drive me back to this topic for a 2025 version and an entirely fresh approach to productivity My 2019 article still […]
December 12, 2024
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Star of Wonder. Star With Royal Beauty Bright.

Guide us to a perfect light. Who have been your guiding stars this year? I wonder—a lot. I can overthink anything. Most of all, I obsess about you, the reader of this weekly post, and the online community members for Gifted Professionals and Communicators Sia and I started three years ago. The […]
December 7, 2024
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I’ve got a hundred million reasons to walk away

But baby, I just need one good one to stay After 42 years as the first pioneer in association consulting, I had to walk away. In all that time, I discovered there is ONE reason why anyone joins or works for an association and that is the same reason they leave you. […]