"I have spent my whole life forging meaningful paths into new and unknown territory. Whether it was pursuing flying adventures across five continents, leaving a safe corporate job for a more fulfilling career as a self-employed writer, learning to thrive in a male-dominated industry, or working around a broken healthcare system to achieve dignified, high-quality care for aging and declining parents, I have found one thing to be true. Learning to navigate uncertain and uncharted waters is what allows us to find better solutions, gain unshakable strength and resilience, get the most out of life, and learn some of its most important lessons.
For the past 30 years, my work has focused on sharing those hard-won insights, lessons and knowledge to help others gain those same rewards.”
About Lane
Lane Wallace has spent the past 25 years writing, speaking, and working with individuals and groups on navigating and learning from all kinds of life adventure: physical, professional, and personal. Sometimes, adventure is something we choose, for the fun, joy, and learning of it. Other times, it’s something life throws at us, unplanned and uninvited. In every case, however, it’s uncharted territory that challenges us to find our own way through. If we learn how to do that, we gain the ability to craft better solutions, create more fulfilling and meaningful lives and careers, and build more resilience for handling the next adventure that comes along.
Lane was born with a gift for writing, an insatiably curious mind that wanted to explore and understand as much about the world as possible, and an unwillingness to settle for conventional answers if the possibility of a better solution existed.
Writing
Lane Wallace has been a successful author and journalist for more than 25 years. She was an editor and the first female columnist at Flying magazine, and she currently writes a magazine column called “Core Strength” for Women in Aviation, International. In addition, she’s written six books for NASA, two books on the lessons of adventure, and is nearing completion on her latest book project: Core Strength: Being Happy and Having Impact in a World Run by Men. She’s also written for numerous national and international publications including The Atlantic, The New York Times, Outside magazine and ForbesLife.
Working Across Differences
As the first female columnist ever hired at Flying magazine, and a woman who spent 30 years working successfully in an industry that was 94% male, Lane is certainly aware of the challenges facing any minority working in a majority-culture environment. But those three decades taught her two critical lessons: First: that her success came from approaching her situation as a cross-cultural challenge instead of a fight for voice, respect, and inclusion. Second: that those cross-cultural challenges exist for ANY team of people, because we’re all different. Different worldviews. Different individual and cultural backgrounds. Different personalities. So the skills and approach she developed to work successfully across gender differences can improve how any diverse team or group interacts and works together.
Career Coaching
Ever since she left her corporate marketing career to become a freelance aviation and adventure writer, Lane has been creating her own career path, one step and choice at a time. As a result, she’s learned a tremendous amount about how to make career decisions wisely and effectively, as well as how to gain the self-knowledge and grounded focus that allow for strong decision-making. In addition, Lane has 25 years of experience in successfully navigating male-dominated workplaces—knowledge she’s able to share with all her coaching clients. Lane’s background as a professional writer and editor give her the added ability to help clients formulate resumes, performance reports, promotion rationales, and other work projects requiring strategic thinking, planning, and writing.
No Map. No Guide. No Limits.
In 2009, Lane founded a website to provide information and support for people who want to undertake the lifelong adventure of being themselves and charting their own path in the world. No Map. No Guide. No Limits. offers some of her most current writing: thought-provoking essays, information, and resources on everything from Voice and Authenticity to Entrepreneurship and Innovation.