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The Community Building Potential of … Malls?!

There we were, skipping and laughing ironically through Kitchener-Waterloo’s largest mall. My grad school roommate and current awesome friend, Jim, and I were hilariously lampooning the community building potential of malls by drawing a clear counterpoint to how they are…

Five Career Development Trends Impacting Organizations

I wrote this article in January, 2020 (pre-pandemic, but just barely). What has changed? What’s stayed the same? How do these career development trends hold up? John Also, register for Cannexus23 today! — Career Development Trends Next week career practitioners…

21 Ways to Build a Better Normal in 2021

2020 is almost over. It’s been a year. The pandemic has ravaged and disrupted the planet. Calls for racial and social justice, which has always been present in our communities, have gained prominence. Our planet is still burning. Personally, my…

Three Workplace Trends to Watch

Work will never be the same after this. The coronavirus pandemic is challenging what we know about how, when and where work happens. Why organizations exist and what companies produce is being questioned, too. We have an opportunity to use…