Gifted Professionals and Communicators Journal

January 12, 2024

Navigating the Complexities of Giftedness

Gifted professionals are everywhere in the world. They are the ones who can look beyond what is obvious to design a better cart, attach the wheels in new places, and pull hard to get things moving. Many times, they do so against all odds, and often alone. As Mary-Elaine Jacobsen writes in […]
December 16, 2023

A Different Kind of Bird Spotting

Birds of a Rare Feather, Inventors, and Gifted Share These Characteristics If you call yourself professional or think your work is worthwhile you are the core of our community. If you love to write or communicate in other ways and seem to show traits of giftedness, you are the trifecta winner in […]
December 7, 2023

We Barely Talk About Giftedness, Until It’s Our Professional Choice

When we share the stories of our lives and professional practices, our stories never start with the giftedness part. People save that for last or don’t emphasize it at all. Our stories in the community of Gifted Professionals and Communicators start with why and how we became passionate about the profession we […]
December 4, 2023

What You Seek Seeks You: The Most Authentic and Powerful You

Tracy King is a Force of Nature, as are each of the gifted professionals and communicators you meet in the GPC Community. She is extremely dynamic, intense, smart, sensitive, and famous for her consulting and book, The Competitive Advantage: Create Continuing Education That Is Profitable, Sustainable, and Impactful. Tracy is the founder […]
April 30, 2022

Superpowers of Gifted Professionals Are Hidden in Plain Sight

What seems clear and obvious to Jerry Allan might seem to others complex, multidimensional, and surreal, like stepping into a video game.  This could be a huge problem in connecting and understanding others, leading to a life of isolation and overcompensating to fit in, if not for the superpower of design thinking. […]
April 4, 2022

Did You Notice? There’s An Everyday Genius Among Us.

Some gifted professionals have highly specialized talents. Others, possess broad-ranging potentialities, drawing from a pool of abilities to excel in all sorts of things. As Mary-Elaine Jacobsen writes in her book, The Gifted Adult, “A handful become millionaire entertainers, eminent physicians, Pulitzer and Nobel prize winners. Many more are firefighters, librarians, kindergarten […]