On this International Women’s Day, I honor a mentor who has shaped my life for over 40 years - my sister. Her influence in my life extends far beyond my admiration; it is a masterclass in resilience, focus, and leadership. Through her, I have come to understand that true success is not an … [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 Job Search is Not a Numbers Game – It’s a Story Well Told
A job search feels like a numbers game. Until you realize it’s not. It’s not about the hundred applications you send, the ten interviews you get, or the five follow-ups you schedule. In the end, you don’t need a hundred acceptances. You need one. And that one doesn’t come from luck. It comes … [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...]