The Riot. A Refresher on Relevance to Resonance to Significance

You don’t have to be a Vancouverite to be disgusted with what happened on Wednesday, June 15th 2011. And I’m not talking about watching the number 1 hockey team in the league let a scrappy bunch dominate them in their…

Pop Up and Do Less

The other day I was lucky to get a few minutes with a founder of a prominent design agency in Vancouver and I asked him what his biggest issue with working with nonprofit organizations was. His answer kind of surprised me initially but the more I thought about it the more it made sense and…

Givers unite!

Last Friday a group of 53 of us gathered in Toronto for a day to consider the question: “What is in our hands, and how can we steward this better?”

This group — the Canadian Givers’ Roundtable — were especially selected … they were those who have given considerably to Canadian…

Be An Owner

Having recently been moved into a new leadership role, I am facing many new (and exciting) leadership challenges. One of the many is that of ownership. I’ve wrestled with the fact that many decisions (staff, ideas, projects, etc.) were made well before me yet I am the one who now has to “manage” those…