This past month, I celebrated the Lunar and Chinese New Year with family and friends – another cycle of the Earth around the sun. I find new year’s celebrations are always a good time for reflection, connection, and appreciation, and these past couple of months have been exactly that. February is also Black History Month, […]
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Happy new year everyone! 2023 was jam packed and I can’t wait to see what 2024 will bring. On the personal front, my experience and learnings working for myself and then transitioning back to full-time employment, while also continuing business coaching and wrapping up consultative projects, was challenging but extremely rewarding. I hope to look
Informative Podcast episodes Books read I didn’t read as much as I usually do this year, but here were my three most enjoyed/thought provoking books of 2023: Blood Like Fate by Liselle Sambury; SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham; and The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Community Partnership Events 2023 was my busiest in industry social
Happy Halloween! The past two months have been full of a lot of different things and blogging has taken a back seat. There are two articles I’m working on, on-and-off, right now that aren’t yet ready for the world. One is on the topic of ‘sustainable flying’ and the other is built off of my
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A big change to EQ came this past month. It has come with lots of emotions, but the overwhelming feeling is of excitement! TL;DR, I started a new job, full-time, as a Project Manager for Barkley Project Group. Where I’ll be working with First Nations communities to develop renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. In
My first interaction with the term artificial intelligence, was when I saw the movie advertisements for Steven Spieldberg’s “A.I.”. In the movie, a robot named David, played by Haley Joel Osment becomes this near-future world’s first robot with human emotion and rationale. While androids are part of this world’s everyday life, they look exactly like
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June is National Indigenous History Month in Canada, officially since 2009 (then called National Aboriginal History Month). But I have only started hearing about it in the mainstream over the last few years. It’s an opportunity to deliberately set aside time in our days to honour stories, achievements, and resiliency of Indigenous Peoples. People who
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Back in 2016, I was told that the consulting firm I worked for had no interest in renewable energy. I remember the senior leader’s serious face as they told me “there is no money in that.” It was a feeling of energy disappearing in an instant, as my excitement for being part of the workforce
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This case study describes a workshop for developing ideas and bringing them into the world. From ideation to purpose and action. Use Case Teaching professionals how to create clear vision statements and elevator pitches, and to establish their target audience. # of Attendees 10 – 20 Industry Environmental Professionals Common Problem The urgency we face
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We live in a busy world. Everything is trying to grab just a few seconds of our attention at all times. We’re glued to our smartphones, social media feeds, and the constant stream of information from a wide variety of sources. Information flow never stops. Most of us don’t stop either, until we collapse at
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