Three Bold Worklife Predictions for 2025
The year 2024 has been a wild ride for worklife, packed with game-changing technologies that are reshaping how we work and all sorts of tinkering with employee value propositions (EVP) from Google to the Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan. Generative AI…
How to Create a Sense of Belonging in Your Community
Today is Staff Day at BC Pension Corporation. The experience provides time and space for employees to connect and learn together. This year’s theme is we belong together and we chose it because of the force-multiplier that a sense of…
Three Ways to Bring the Cooperative Enterprise Model to Non-Cooperative Places
The Great Resignation is causing an existential awakening throughout the world of work because “the dramatic upheaval of the past year and a half, along with the looming specter of death, likely inspired many to rethink how they spend their…
A Turn the Temperature Down Haiku
It’s too hot these days. Politics. Planet. Culture. Leaders turn it down. – A haiku about listening more than we talk, seeking to understand and find common ground, and probably riding bikes and walking around a little bit more.
How Language Creates and Erodes Interdependence
I agree with Batman that our actions matter more than who we are underneath because actions reveal our true character. I also notice how much language influences who leaders are and what we stand for. I notice this the most…
12 Things that Make Co-operative Leaders Different
Co-operatives are democratic, highly adaptable and very resilient. In my opinion, the world needs more co-opetition from its leaders – when we compete to make society better then we’re all winning. Leading as a member of a co-operative requires different…
An Imposter Syndrome Haiku
Leaders need these things. Confidence. Humility. Imposter syndrome. – A haiku about how, with the best of intentions, blending confidence and humility can lead to imposter syndrome because interrogating our decisions and beliefs fosters curiosity and can also sew seeds…
What Needs to be in Your Next Corporate Retreat
According to the Internet, most corporate retreats suck. After all, many senior leaders aren’t even great at running effective meetings, so why would a group of us be awesome at designing and delivering what is essentially a multi-day million dollar…
Empathy is Harder than Math
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others. It involves perceiving and connecting with their emotions, fostering understanding, and often responding with compassion and support. Mathematics is the language of patterns and relationships in the world. It’s…
2024 is About Investing in Caring
To ring in every year, I like to share some ideas and tactics for reflecting and goal setting. From habit building to interrogating the sustainability of gym memberships and dry Januarys, setting intention for career aspirations and healthy relationships is…