Creativity takes courage. It means letting go of certainties for the unknown. We have urgent problems to solve, and we need creative people and organizations to do it. NOW. We have no time to waste; we must be fierce and original in our work in this amazingly complex world.

Because unsafe independent thinkers have always produced controversy, but they have also produced change. They have created movements.

Are the solutions that you are working on, the plans you are creating, the ideas you are hatching, the gifts you are contributing revolutionary?

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. John W. Gardner      John Gardner said a mouthful. There is something amazingly freeing about not pretending. About speaking truth, taking that huge exhale and letting...

Because knowing the TRUTH means we have to act. We work with real people with real challenges. This makes our work complex and messy and most days swimming in the “grey”. Projects that we think will take a year sometime take three. And knowing the facts, having that hard data at our fingertips mean we have to make hard choices.

The more closely aligned your storytelling is to your culture, truth and reality and the communities you serve, the more powerful your stories become to the listener.