Scenario Planning has been a hot method of creating organizational strategy for over 20 years. Recently I was asked to guide a team in a strategic planning process, and the team wanted […]
How Assumptions About Others Can Diminish Our Communities
It was weird listening to Christina Parker-Hopkins, President and Co-Founder of the Iron Sirens Women’s Motorcycle Club talk about sisterhood. I was at my Business and Professional Women club meeting last week, […]
Cultivating Curiosity & Leadership
Curiosity is the root of innovation, creativity, and learning. I love to explore new ideas, I love to make things happen. Yet sometimes I don’t feel very challenged, which makes […]
Getting the Story Right: Acts of Leadership
For the past couple of weeks the news has been full of a Detroit man, James Robertson, who walked to work 33 kilometers each day to get to work. The public’s response […]
What I’ve been reading: Resilience vs Robustness
Here is a great post from Eric McNulty, on the Strategy and Business website about resilience. As leaders, we need to think about resilience more broadly, in terms of people, things and […]
Tough Day to Be A Canadian
It’s been a tough couple of days to be a Canadian. A young, engaged, caring man has died. Gunshots rang out in the centre of our democracy, Parliament Hill. The bubble has […]
A New Era of Political Leadership
Last night the Province of Ontario made history. We elected Kathleen Wynne as Premier in a sweeping majority government. Not only did they elect a women Premier for the first time ever, […]
The Leadership of Maya Angelou
This week many people are writing tributes to Maya Angelou, who died this week at the age of 86. Most of us think of Angelou as a brilliant poet, author, actress and […]
#Leadership & Sense-Making
Leaders help us understand the world. Or more precisely, they shape how we view it. At least that’s what Valerie Stead and Carole Elliott present in their book, Women’s Leadership. Leaders shape […]
Mentorship Matters – A bit
Mentorship matters. But perhaps not as much as we think it does. A recent study from BMO showed that 83% of women who were interested in entrepreneurship thought that role models and […]
The Creativity Crisis
Children have become less creative over the past 20 years according to Hee Kyung Kim (2011). The study included of over 40 years of data from the Torrence Tests of Creativity, it […]
Mindset and Leadership
One of the most popular posts on this blog is entitled, “leaders are born, not made“. I was intentionally controversial in that post, because I actually don’t believe that leadership is an […]