The Map Of The Distributed Knowing
A conversation about climate risk, business leadership and stewardship Winding down Season Four. We Found Each Other. The Map Of The Distributed Knowing.
Tag Archives: good stewardship; lasting impact
Courage to Live, Love, Lead
A colleague of mine, writing a book for millennials, asked me what advice I’d give about living, loving, parenting, and leading courageously. I gave her three things: Think Big, Choose Vintage First, Steward the Planet. This is about the first one. Make sure your entire reason for getting up in the morning is genuinely big. […]
The Girl From The Town Of Twenty Thousand
Winding down Season Four. We Found Each Other. The Girl from the Town of Twenty Thousand
The Titles That Told Me Nothing
A few weeks ago, I wrote about ditching my title. Here’s what happened after I released that opinion piece. Four people read that piece and told me I’d just described their secret sauce. I know all four of them personally. Not one of them had ever crossed my mind as someone I might hire. Here’s […]
Clear Eyed; Not Hopeless
Shell Shocked: Moral Injury and the Leaders Carrying It
Clear Eyed; Not Hopeless
The One Thing We Never Like to Admit
I started the 5Cs podcast because I wanted to learn the truth behind the noise around climate change. That sounds simple. It wasn’t. I came from thirty years in the chemical, plastics, and lubricants industries. Businesses built on extraction, every one of them. I knew how to make money. I did not know what was […]
Finding the Person Behind the Title
I hired a coach recently. Not to sharpen my strategy or refine my messaging. I hired her to help me find my personality. That probably sounds strange coming from someone who spent four decades standing in front of rooms and running organizations. But here is the truth. For most of those years, I was hiding. […]
That Thing That Happened: Now You Have A Name
This year, the 5Cs podcast went down a few dark alleys and I promised I’d find someone who could help us work through what we’re feeling. I found a fabulous clinical psychologist who does exactly that. And before she comes on, I need to set the stage so to speak this week. I want to […]
You’re Not Broken; You’re Morally Injured
Shell Shocked: Moral Injury and the Leaders Carrying It. The first of a new five part series.
Three Traps That Keep Us Stuck
There is something I keep noticing in the conversations I’ve been having with colleagues and clients this month. The pattern is consistent enough that I think it belongs here, in the wider community. For years, I was the person with the colour-coded planner, the non-negotiable morning routine, and the running list of serious, ambitious things […]