"I'll love you forever I'll like you for always As long as I am living My baby you'll be" I opened the gift, started reading and melted into a puddle of tears. Holding my new baby in my arms, I recognized myself in the beautiful illustrations by Sheila McGraw. As I turned the pages, I...
Teen brain All the confusion I was facing as my seemingly logical 12-year old dissolved into an absolutely incoherent teen became clearer once I heard Dr. Jean Clinton explain how the teen brain develops. Her explanations were even more meaningful because as she was researching, she was also parenting her own family. As...
Are you waiting for the 'right' time? Have you been putting something off, waiting for that break in your schedule? Waiting for the 'right time'? Maybe after this project is complete, or that desk drawer has been re-organized. After you have toned your body or perfected that swing. Time is an awkward subject....
TILT the podcast Welcome to TILT the Future - a podcast full of possibilities where we talk about the Future of Work. At a moment of immense change, this podcast talks about the little things that are within our power to do, or micro decisions that we can make, that can...
Trailer: 'Peeks' and Valleys Welcome to this new podcast - TILT the Future in your Favour In this trailer, we discuss the framework for the various episodes that will follow. Today's career path looks more like a roller coaster ride than the traditional ladder. With the gig economy, new technologies, just in time...
What are career counsellors concerned about when working with their clients, and the Future of Work? List of some Future-ready concerns: That the future is already our presentThat there is a skill mis-matchThat there is a current and growing skill shortageThat our expectations clearly do not match the reality availableThat business would...
We are all one worldSir David Attenborough, Davos 2019 If there is one galvanizing force in the discussion on Life on Earth and climate change, it has to be David Attenborough. He is the most recognizable face of modern natural history, and an ardent protagonist for protecting the delicate balance between...
We can take small actions to move us in the direction of a goal. We have to take that first step. Inspired by a MLK quote....
Today I reap gold. All those moments of parental cleaving and heart-ache as he gradually grew into his independence: letting go of my hand at kindergarten surviving sweaty goals and skinned knees on the soccer field watching him drive away solo in the minivan dropping him off at university sitting on the sidelines, watching his quest...
Why this particular year? With all its ends and its beginnings; its joys and its sorrows; its dashed hopes and dreams for new tomorrows? It is a poem, a blessing by Irish poet John O'Donohue, 'At the End of the Day: A Mirror of Questions'. And a variation on it ended...