The Transformative Aspects of Travel — Increasing Introspection, Trust and Awe I am dedicating this issue of Strategy, Leadership & Presence to travel and the amazing ways it transforms us. First, I want to acknowledge that I am privileged to be able to travel and have always made it a…

Your competitive advantage is the accuracy of how you see, sense and interpret your environment. It is my belief that you will get a more accurate read if you practice resilience, responsiveness and reflection — Jennifer Sertl. #a3r I was lucky enough to attend the Social Innovation Summit earlier this…

What separates us from artificial intelligence is our ability to have empathy, our ability to scenario plan, our ability to gain perspective, our ability to be curious and experience “awe.” I feel the need to talk more about the usefulness of being human. One of the most profound talks I…

As a curator, I tend to express myself best in a series of articles. Here are some old and new articles intended to strengthen your sense of belonging. I hope you find a connection or insight that gives you the kind of jolt good chocolate provides. 1) Why We Need…

STRATEGY Arianna Huffington recently posted about naming a word as a theme for the year. My word for 2023 is the word alignment. You may have seen my alignment model from the book Strategy Leadership & the Soul I wrote with my colleague Koby Huberman back in 2010. From Strategy, Leadership…

I have been writing about the future of work for over a decade and am as deeply committed to the alignment between individuals as complex adaptive systems with the construct of the organizations they are a part of. You can do a deeper dive into my point of view in…

Rochester is a community in transition working to learn from the past and build more inclusion into our future. On my twitter stream today I came across an article recently published in *Nature “Social Capital I: Measurement and Associations with Economic Mobility.” The article is fairly provocative and provides a…

The Social Innovation Summit run by Landmark Ventures is a global network of leaders discussing the key strategies and business innovations creating social transformation across the corporate, investment, government and non-profit sectors. I have participated in the Social Innovation Summit for almost a decade. My first event was the last…

I got involved in technology in 2011. The catalyst was a simple question by my four year old son. He innocently asked, “Mommy, does your heart remote control people?.” I was driving at the time and had to pull over because of the lightening bolt of awareness that came with…