The best time to start building your personal brand was a year ago. The second best time is today. Start now, not when you’re scrambling looking for a new job – because building a brand takes ti…

When I set out to take a sabbatical leave at the end of 2023, I wanted to do some work in sustainability at the intersection of healthcare and climate change in the global context. This was more a vis…

“This must be too small to be of any importance!” Have you ever considered not bringing up the “small little thing” that bothered you, at work or in life? What if that “small little thing” ends up bei…

When your boss gives you (literal) lemons… 🍋 A few years ago I got a little tchotchke gift from my former line manager — a tiny lemon charm. It was after a major setback in my career and ad…

We like to talk about team culture bringing synergy – we mean that cooperation brings results greater than the sum of their efforts. Except that this is wrong ❌ Team culture is not an addit…

We’re often thinking that to see things more clearly we need to look closer, lean forward, maybe take a magnifying glass, or binoculars. That’s what the instinct tells us. But the truth is most of the…