Tilt or Tumble - Creating a Future We Can Hope For This was not my normal audience. Would they respond to a presentation titled Tilt or Tumble? I had been invited to be the keynote presenter at a seminar for Canadian Not-For-Profit Organizations (NPO) hosted by the accounting firm RLB. What could...
I believe My Manifesto for a Moral Revolution part 2 This is part II of my manifesto written in response to the question posed by Jacqueline Novogratz and her Acumen team in the class Path of Moral Leadership. What is the “impossible” you dare to imagine as “possible”? What is the story about the...
My Manifesto for a Moral Revolution part 1 What is the “impossible” you dare to imagine as “possible”? What is the story about the future or an alternate reality your manifesto will tell? What will help you sustain and thrive throughout this work? Jacqueline Novogratz asks these questions in the Acumen class Path of...
Tying together FoW, Climate Action & COVID What if COVID is the dress rehearsal, a road map for how we as humans can handle the environmental crisis? We have now shown that nations can quickly agree on a consistent course of action, humans can make sacrifices for the common good. New Normal...
What is Gap Year Podcast? This podcast explores the many questions that invariably appear when anyone considers a gap year. Faced with the uncertainty of a freshman university experience in the presence of COVID-19, this year present there is a greater debate for those considering a gap year as a natural pause...
It is my simple commitment for July: Post something daily related to the environment. Today the focus is on my regular Call to Action: Make. Take. Talk. Select whichever applies to you. Mix and match. Make up your own. But please pick one each day: Make: up your mind to participate a decision...
Get creative in your COVID job hunt. Could a previous employer or manager be the answer to your job quest? Creative job hunting means becoming inventive in your ideas. This video explores positioning yourself to be aware of, and taking advantage of opportunities that may arise. Start looking around for patterns, because...
E44: You have permission We use low points and pockets of time to confirm or change the direction of our lives - to recalibrate. But why wait? Can we schedule in regular checkpoints that will allow us to make these pivots earlier in the process? What would you do if you knew you had...
This shutdown could end tomorrow - What will you be able to say you learned about yourself during this hiccup in time? What is your COVID lesson? This experience has been different for each of us. Some of us have been privileged enough to be sequestered at home, sheltering in place to help flatten...
Are you having a tough time dealing with the volume of information and data in this crisis too? The speed with which events have moved during this crisis meant that there was a lot of information to handle in the early weeks. Much of the information and suggestions were conflicting. I found...