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facilitating & hosting

Drawing Inspiration: Group Works Card Deck

As I was doing some design work recently for the 2012 Western Cities Conference I pulled out my Group Works Card Deck. Why is it that some meetings bring life to your soul, while others leave you wishing you’d never stepped in the room? What happens at the best ones, that makes them productive, fulfilling, […]

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personal reflections

Do Your Work

Gratitude to Viv McWaters for sharing this. Inspiration, energy, hope…. to simply do my work.  

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facilitating & hosting

Keith Richards on Why, Cages and Inspiration

Part of my summer reading was Keith Richards’ autobiography Life. A couple of cool parallels to my work:  People say, “Why don’t you give it up?” I can’t retire until I croak. I don’t think they quite understand what I get out of this. I’m not doing it just for the money or for you. […]

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leadership & management

The Spark of Cirque

In March I went to Cirque du Soleil. Bucket list item crossed off! In the days that led up to performance night I reflected: why this was worthy of my bucket list? My fascination with Cirque began not from an entertainment perspective but from the talent lens. I recall reading an article about retirement in […]

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personal reflections

SHIFTED

SHIFTED was: “five entrepreneurs and leaders telling refreshing stories about challenges they’ve faced and the choices they made to achieve success”. I decided to attend because of this: “We’re exposing the gritty truth of achieving success. It’s all about the moments where hard decisions are made and fears are faced head on.” Plus all the ticket […]