These are unprecedented times, with the amount of political, financial, and social shifts happening - all in parallel, and all influencing each other. It is but expected that folks are feeling overwhelmed and jittery. The impact on international students and foreign professionals is even more. … [Read more...]
Leadership Is About Learning, Not Knowing
The best leaders I’ve worked with, the ones who inspire, who build, who create lasting impact, share a common trait: they welcome challenge. Not as an obligation, not as something to endure, but as an essential part of growth. They are not threatened by dissent. They don’t fear disagreement. … [Read more...]
Beyond Labels: Decoding Habits, Skills, and Strengths for Lasting Success
In a world obsessed with buzzwords and bullet points, I've often wondered how many of us have inadvertently sold ourselves short by mislabeling our capabilities. It wasn’t too long ago that I realized - after countless hours of self-reflection and professional growth - that the real game-changer … [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...]
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...]
Don’t Ask for More Than You Give: Why credibility begins with skin in the game
There’s a moment in every leader’s journey where they must choose whether they’re willing to walk the path they’re asking others to follow. It sounds simple - obvious, even - but it’s one of the hardest principles to consistently uphold. And yet, leadership without example isn’t leadership at all; … [Read more...]
The Weight of Words: When Passion Demands Proof
Passion is one of those words that carries an almost mythic quality. It stirs our imagination, evokes admiration, and, when spoken with conviction, demands our attention. It’s a term that doesn’t simply describe - it declares. To say, “I am passionate about this” is to present oneself as someone … [Read more...]
Understanding Entrepreneurship: It Was Never About the Money
Entrepreneurship is often mischaracterized as a pursuit of wealth. From the outside, it can seem like a game of chasing funding, maximizing profits, and striving for exits that promise generational riches. But ask any entrepreneur who has poured their heart into building something from the ground … [Read more...]