Remember when you were a child and your parents asked you what you wanted to do with your life? I do. And I can honestly say that "being a community leader in the sexual health field" was nowhere on my mind. Back then I was pretty sure I wanted to be a florist.

I think I can honestly speak for many of my fellow colleagues in the field of sexual health when I say that it is almost completely by accident that we have arrived  here. I'm a historian by academic training with a public relations professional background and most of my colleagues share similar trajectories of being health educators, teachers/professors, social workers, therapists, clergy, doctors, journalists, social scientists and the list goes on. What would it have been like for all of us to have had actual focused professional development training in sexual health as we made our decision to move into this field? How much more productive and...