Aug 18, 2016
What is leadership, anyways? It’s not a title or a position. It’s about stepping over a threshold. It’s about making a difference in your own life, the lives of others, in your community or organization, or in the world at large. It’s about living and acting by...
Mar 30, 2016
Mentor: The name of the adviser to young Telemachus in Homer’s Odyssey that tells the story of his ten-year journey home, after the Greek victory over the Trojans. A tale of wandering, it takes place not on a field of battle but on fantastic islands and foreign lands....
Dec 21, 2015
My mother passed away this month after a lengthy battle with ovarian cancer. Here are some of the lessons that I’ve gleaned from her life after sharing her life journey of 83 years as her eldest daughter. TAKE CARE OF YOUR ELDERS. THEY HOLD THE SECRETS OF THE PAST AND...
Feb 25, 2015
Collective impact is all the rage these days in the nonprofit/mission driven sector. Community partners from across sectors are convened in much greater numbers to pool their efforts to solve complex, systems level issues, like childhood obesity, generational...
Feb 11, 2015
Jennifer Simpson, Ph.D, Generative Council member and partner at Conversant, is embarking on a two-year journey to look at how organizations can shift away from the death-and-dying approach to “change management” by tapping into energy-giving resources....
