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What story are you telling?
What is the story that you're telling about your past? How is that story informing your story about who you are today? Stories are powerful things. Human beings are storytellers by nature. It’s how we pass things on from generation to generation. Think about the...
Yes, you can!
Years ago, working as the Development Director with Family Pride Coalition, now Family Equality Council, I targeted Volvo Cars USA as a potential corporate sponsor. Family Pride was a small (under $500,000 annual budget) non-profit committed to advancing legal...
Why Quarterly Retreats are more effective than Annual Retreats
The Annual Retreat. What just came to mind? A super-productive gathering of your entire team which leaves everyone energized and inspired for the year ahead? An extra few paid days off? An opportunity for some rest, relaxation, dining and drinking? An utter and...
Projecting Who You Are
The photo above is of the interior of an empty building – a former foundry, to be exact. The floor, walls, and ceiling are blank. Everything you see is an image cast by 140 projectors. It took one year of fine tuning to get it right, and now the blank space comes...
D-Day 2018: Reflections from France
"When you are 4 or 5 years old, and your parents and your grandparents tell you about this, it sticks with you," said Benoit Noel, 42, who helps administer a museum commemorating what happened on Utah Beach. "Everybody in Normandy remembers the landing. We know what...
In Memoriam
Remembering all who gave their lives for their country, and for the ideals for which this nation stands. This sentence from the Declaration of Independence best represents those ideals for me: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,...
“This was raw God, and that’s the business.”
If you want to know what it looks like and sounds like when someone literally embodies their brand promise, and then delivers it with power, look no further than the sermon preached by The Most Reverend Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, at the...
Mother’s Day
In honor of all Mothers on this Mother’s Day, but especially my mom, Lillian, for whom work was love, and whose work was always connected to The Great Work of the Universe; to Lillian, whose work began on February 23rd, 1930, and whose work was complete on February...
Broken Foot: What’s Now, NOT What’s Next, Matters
For the second time in two years, I’ve fallen into the pool while cleaning it. But it wasn’t a “clean” fall, the kind where you clear the edge of the pool and simply get wet. No, each time I’ve racked up the right side of my body. Two years ago, it was a torn rotator...
You’re a Super Jumbo.
No, I’m not calling you fat. The Airbus A380 cruises at 564 MPH, at an altitude of 43,100. The ride is smooth as silk. But to get there, it has to overcome a takeoff weight of 1,274,271 pounds. Each of the four EA GP7200 engines delivers 70,000 pounds of thrust, and...