Dragon Onboarding Specialist · 5d ago
After 9 years at Thornwick & Associates, I have made the most difficult decision of my career. I am stepping down as Dragon Onboarding Specialist. Not because I want to. Because Margaret V. Thornwick stepped down, and the team she built is ready to lead. And if the team is ready to lead, then I need to let them. I have onboarded 412 hatchlings. I have watched 400 of them grow into working dragons. I have cried at approximately 300 first-flame ceremonies. (The other 112 I cried at too, but silently.) Ember — the Welsh Green from last September — graduated from the program this week. She is 14 pounds of absolute fire and fury and gentleness. She tapped my knee again on her last day. Onboarding isn't a process — it's a promise. I kept that promise 412 times. I'm not leaving the field. I'm writing a book. I'm consulting. And I'm sleeping past 5 AM for the first time in nine years. What was YOUR hardest goodbye? #Resignation #FirstFlame #412Hatchlings #NewChapter