Insights About Impact
An unprecedented group of leaders are getting off zoom and gathering at #SOCAP2023 this week in San Francisco to confront an also unprecedented array of complex social, economic and environmental chal...
26 October, 2023
You could drown in the alphabet soup of acronyms that we use today to track and signal that we are doing the right thing. ESG. CSR. DEI. The alphabet soup is helping us make the issues more visible and better o...
06 September, 2022
If you live on the planet Earth, you probably know that Olaf the snowman from Frozen longs for summer – and is desperate to find out “what happens to solid water when it gets warm” too. Non-pr...
01 August, 2023
With Mother’s Day arriving in May, lots of us think about our own or the mothers in our life. Celebrating them seems like a really good thing. At the same time, it’s important to ask whether as a na...
10 May, 2023
If more of us felt more confident we could do something useful to stop climate change (or mitigation of the consequences) – that would be a good thing. The complexity of it all is orders of magnitude beyo...
04 April, 2023
My daughter, my son, my niece and I recently had the pleasure to watch the Merrimack College and UNH women’s hockey teams face off against one another. Those remarkable student athletes (photo) and the ad...
01 March, 2023
For Black History Month, I asked some people whose ideas motivate and challenge me to contribute a short reflection with a very specific prompt in mind: What is an action you believe either you, we or someone e...
06 February, 2023
I am fond of saying that true leaders don’t just check the temperature — they set the temperature. My greatest wish for 2023 is that we each develop next level knowledge, skills and attitudes that b...
26 December, 2022
Sometimes changes in the landscape reveal that you don’t have the relationships you need to succeed. The CHIPS Act and the Inflation Reduction Act are two examples that are loaded with programs and opport...
01 October, 2022
As everyone heads back to campus, our colleges and universities must go forward with the work of building diverse, equitable and inclusive communities. All the easy pieces have been picked up already. The hard ...
22 August, 2022
It is impossible to see Black brilliance without also seeing the cost that Black Americans and the nation itself have paid for racism and without appreciating the job yet to be done. Scott Joplin wrote Treemo...
09 February, 2022
“You only get one earthly life. Why not decide now to do something great, something courageous with your one and only earthly life?” This was the free advice offered by my high school advisor the la...
08 December, 2021
You didn’t really think we worked alone, did you? Your key stakeholders are asking hard questions and it feels different than it has before because it truly is different. Positive social and environmental...
18 October, 2021
In companies and organizations across the US, people are talking about racism, thanks to the courage of activists and the attention given to horrendous acts of violence against Black people. There are some trut...
19 August, 2021
It is not always easy to see who is “winning” in the high profile effort to embrace diversity, equity and inclusion in the American workplace, on campuses and in all kinds of organizations. But it&#...
14 June, 2021