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 challenges. The annual coming-together of "the most engaged and diverse impact investing community in the world" is...
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-profit leaders certainly won't melt, but the pressures they...
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 nation the US really cares about mothers....
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 beyond most of our personal power even if...
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 advocates who work hard for gender equity in athletics and education...
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 else needs to take to bring us even...
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 bring us new power and the possibility of doing just...
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 opportunities. To take advantage of them, your company is going to have...
The Emblem Network convening experts who know about building great organizations including LV Randolph, foreground.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...
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 work remains. Structural change. Long-term and sustainable partnerships. New systems, metrics...