The Blog
Fifteen years of writing on leadership, character, and country.
Leadership is a transformational journey — one of refinement and distillation. Donna’s eclectic background as a soldier, athlete, and civic leader informs her exploration of leadership in all its facets.
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Two Women Complete Army Ranger Training, What’s Next?
Ret. US Army Ranger Jeff Struecker argues women shouldn’t serve in combat roles, citing a “social issue.” West Point graduate and Army vet Donna…
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Meet the First Class of Women to Graduate From Army Ranger School
Two women have crossed rivers, scaled walls, and jumped over a gender barrier to make it through the U.S. Army’s toughest training program. In…
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Utah, Being Number One Is a Bad Thing
Utah’s landscape is among the most iconic in the country. We boast having three of the top 10 ski resorts in North America. Utah…
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Cost of Doing Nothing On Immigration Reform
The stonewalling on immigration exemplifies the political dysfunction and grandstanding in Washington that is tying our government up in knots. In June 2013, the…
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Utah’s Unequal Paychecks
We Utahns are proud of our economic growth, and rightly so. Nationally we rank as the “Best State for Business and Careers” by Forbes…
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Apologies Instead of Action
One would think that when the Joint Chiefs of Staff and members of their staffs took their seats in the Senate Armed Services Committee…
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What do we Tell Our Children Who Want to Serve? The Sexual Assault Crisis in the Military
Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) and Claire McCaskill (MO) have become the faces and voices of outrage and action over the crisis of sexual assault…
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It is all about the job, not the gender
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, upon the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s unanimous recommendation, last week signed the repeal of the combat exclusion policy of 1994,…