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Consultants are known to talk too much, listen too little. Consulting can be a higher calling, a call to be of service to another. In truth it is a listening profession where one aims to provide more value than one is ever paid for.

Too Hard to Measure or to Face? How Sustainability Lost Its Focus on Equity and Can Get it Back

Too Hard to Measure or to Face? How Sustainability Lost Its Focus on Equity and Can Get it Back

I love to cook. In fact, I am THE cook in the house. If you too are the cook, you know the pressure to deliver timely, tasty nutrition. There is nothing like a great frying pan that cooks evenly, has a sturdy handle and is non-stick. On many nights, a

How to Talk About Climate Change so People Will Listen

How to Talk About Climate Change so People Will Listen

Our brains aren't ready for this. Our top-shelf brains aren't good at long-term emergencies. Distant effects of our actions especially those that don't match our identity and world-view, are easily dismissed. Per Espen Stoknes, a psychologist with a PhD in economics, chairs the Center

A remote possibility: virtual work and losing what we've never known

A remote possibility: virtual work and losing what we've never known

I am worried the move to remote work will make things better in ways that we can see and it will make things worse in many ways that we won’t. Better in ways we can see Clearly one of the great benefits is for families to have more parents

Forgetting to Learn: Four Surprising Keys to Durable Learning

Forgetting to Learn: Four Surprising Keys to Durable Learning

Whether cramming for a test, listening to a sermon or watching an instructional YouTube video, we all get that elusive feeling: "oh I got this!" We fall victim to the idea that learning is a passive activity. We even use language such as saying someone is a "

In Sustainability, How Much Is ‘Enough’?

In Sustainability, How Much Is ‘Enough’?

If your sustainability efforts cannot withstand increasingly tough questions from executives and Board members, your company is not approaching it in the right way. This framework will help you be ready the next time someone asks, ‘how much is enough?’ Sustainability strategies are increasingly being held to a similar standard