To me, knowledge work has always felt like it held so much promise. A life spent solving problems, creating new ideas, shaping the future - what could be more fulfilling? But if I’m being honest, the reality hasn’t always lived up to that vision. For too long, knowledge work has been weighed … [Read more...]
Noticing is Faster Than Knowing
Breakthroughs don’t always come with a drumroll. More often than not, they slip in quietly, in the spaces between what we think we know. They do not always happen because of how much we’ve studied, researched, or analyzed, but because of what we notice - sometimes in a split second, before we … [Read more...]
The Risk Worth Taking: A Path Forward for Impact Investing
This is a follow-up to The Cost of Doing Good, where I challenged the social impact sector - particularly foundations - to pause and ask some uncomfortable questions about the prevailing push toward impact investing. The first article wasn’t a critique of the idea itself but an invitation to a … [Read more...]
Wake Up, Canada: The Future Won’t Wait for Us
There’s a quiet complacency that creeps in when a nation has known peace, prosperity, and relative stability for so long. It’s almost seductive. We start to assume that what worked before will somehow carry us forward. That the formulas we perfected in the twentieth century will continue to … [Read more...]
The Cost of Doing Good: Rethinking the Impact Investing Chorus
When it comes to the social impact sector, and especially philanthropy, everyone - or almost everyone - is now carrying the flag of impact investing. It’s the movement of our time, the banner under which finance is expected to find its moral compass. And you would think that cash-rich … [Read more...]
Neighbours, Not Strangers: Holding Onto What We’ve Built
There’s a certain kind of noise that comes with political tension. It can rattle the room, hijack the headlines, and, if we’re not careful, cloud the relationships that matter most. But when the subject is tariffs, trade, and cross-border tension, we’d do well to remember that beneath all the … [Read more...]
Stop Chasing Demographics: Sell to the Problem, Not the Profile
We spent decades building marketing campaigns around people’s age, gender, race, and income - as if those boxes could tell us who someone is and why they make decisions. For a long time, it worked, or at least it appeared to. Demographics were easy to track, simple to sort, and gave us something … [Read more...]
The Rhythm of Greatness: Sprint Intentionally, Rest Deliberately, Win Consistently
Sometimes it takes stepping away from your environment and your routine to truly appreciate the why, what, and how of your own life. As I spend time in India, observing and experiencing the differences, I can’t help but notice the stark contrast in how people approach work, time, and energy. … [Read more...]
Leadership in Crisis: Hope is Not a Strategy
Lately, Canada has been spending a lot of time bracing for impact, caught in the gravitational pull of America's turbulence. I have heard a few folks talk about “coping”, as if endurance is a strategy, as if waiting out uncertainty will somehow lead to stability. But in moments like these, … [Read more...]