Leadership

When my summer job making whitewater videos ended, I moved to Ottawa to look for work. It was late fall and I had no money, friends or contacts. My family thought I was crazy. If I would just move back home to Toronto, I could live with my parents in

I was on a coach mentoring call the other day, where certified coaches practice and critique each other to get better at their craft. And I noticed that one of the coaches kept trying to solve her client's problem. That's a no-no for coaches. Our job is to be a

It's April. The month of fresh starts. A new season. New fiscal. New quarter. New semester. New lunar cycle. A chance to do things differently. Some of my clients are taking the opportunity to spring clean their work lives, reviewing and getting rid of processes, goals, assumptions and habits that

Last week I sat on a panel at an event organized by the Association for Managers of Innovation, a group that was new to me. The topic was re-framing hope. Now, I have to confess that, up until that day, hope wasn't something I'd thought a lot about. Actually, I've