Radical Innovation: Systems Change From the Inside Out
Life, as we know it, is living through a “systems change.” To discover life as we want it, we need radical innovation that again, change the system… starting with each one of us. This is systems change from the inside out.We all had thoughts about the way the world...
Transformational Coaching through Shadow Work®
Healing your Wounds, Reclaiming your PowerLike so many children of the post war era, I grew up with parents who were abysmal in dealing with their emotions. My Dad, passionate by constitution, a World War II vet and child of immigrants had one emotional speed: rage....
WeTheChange: Women Leading Business for Good
In early 2017, I was in my 4th year of working as a sustainability and women’s leadership consulting partner to the fashion icon Eileen Fisher. Eileen had just become a B Corp, and one of my favorite friends on the planet, Steph Ryan – who was an early B Corp employee...
The EILEEN FISHER Sustainability Transformation: A Radical Systems Approach
Eileen Fisher’s culture was like none I’d ever witnessed in my quarter-century of working with corporations. The leaders, including VP of Manufacturing, VP of Sales, CFO, and more – the classic white male categories -- were ALL women. And not just women. Not the...
System in the Room
The idea that problems are created and thus solved not in isolation, but by a system of players, who collectively have the wisdom to define, understand, and transform that system is what I refer to as the “System in the Room” approach. Let me explain. Imagine for...
Gratitude for the gift of the maple trees
We are seeing the end of the flowing sap on the close horizon here in the Northeast from the beautiful and benevolent Maple Trees. Folks have been out on the land working hard, carrying heavy buckets filled with sap. Spending many an hour stoking the hot fires in...
Could we fight global warming from home?
Could we fight global warming from home? Or walk, ride, bike, train or sail to our next adventure? Earlier this year while we humans were quarantined, the planet thrived. Void of people, the environment came to life. Dolphins and swans could be seen swimming in the...
Nature Continues to Guide Us
Nature has been sustaining life for 4 billion years and nature continues to guide us even now. Using nature as a teacher, not only in our home lives, but in every aspect of our lives will help us live better. That is why we designed Seed Systems from its beginning to...
Want to Change the World? Move the Furniture
The young woman from Yale asked me if I would moderate a panel. “I’d be honored to,” I said, “but I don’t do panels.” It’s a relief to have enough silver hairs, 25 years down this professional path to have the chutzpah to tell an Ivy League invitation what you will do...
America Exceptional?
American exceptionalism. We are the best. The greatest country on Earth. Gold medal winners all. Right? Turns out we’re exceptionally the best at leading the world in Covid death, infections, hospitalizations. Not just by a little bit. We have close to 200 times more...
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