The Most Important Homework
Did you catch Diane Rehm’s program on NPR last Thursday? Come spring, a group of schools in California will begin testing students on their social emotional skills. The debate among researchers and educators on the show was heated. What is the best way to assess...
Leadership with a Conscience
A talk and panel discussion about empathy, business, innovation with soul, and social justice at the 2015 CWRU Social Justice Institute Think Tank. Many thanks to Founder and Director, Dr. Rhonda Williams, for including us in this thoughtful and moving weekend....
What does the Pope have in Common with Working Parents? – (Leadership with a Conscience, Part II)
Leadership with a conscience: are we there yet? With 70 million people disengaged at work, it seems our heart and soul are someplace else. What about our conscience – that inner voice which guides our sense of right and wrong and our behavior? For too many of us,...
We Cannot Have Conscious Capitalism until We Have Leadership with a Conscience
I love Whole Foods for so many reasons: I love that they screen out not just GMOs (genetically modified organisms) but also the food additives long thought to be innocuous which are anything but – MSG, food coloring, BHT and other preservatives, etc. As one of their...
Lebron and Leadership…and Empathy
“It’s the Grit Squad we have,’’ James said. “It’s not cute at all. If you’re looking for us to play sexy, cute basketball, it’s not us. Nothing comes easy.’’ NYPost We're 3 games into the NBA finals and the Cleveland Cavaliers are up 2 to 1 over the Golden State...
Better Living through Chemistry? – if you consume allergy medicine, pain killers, or Doritos, please read this…
I love science. Specifically, I love how studying science helps us understand the world. I love it so much that I studied chemistry for a very long time. The world is beautifully designed. It’s all far more clever than anything we humans can make. Therein lies the...
Equal Caring Will Bring Equal Pay
Yes, she did. Patricia Arquette talked about the motherhood gap at the Oscars: “To every woman who gave birth to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else’s equal rights. It is our time to have wage equality once and for all, and...
A Good Day’s Work Requires Empathy – TEDx talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6dyrmHIjao I had the pleasure and privilege of speaking at TEDx Cleveland State on 10/24/14. Thanks to all of the family, friends, colleagues, and clients who contributed to the content and provided steadfast encouragement...especially...
Tuscan Ribollita – The Recipe
Tuscan Ribolitta044 Use vegetable broth. Make a lot. Freezes well. If you are veggie but not vegan, the parm is lovely. Crostini with olive oil either way!
Empathetic Eating
Stick a fork in me. I’m done. I’m done cooking animals for myself. There are 6 reasons. Here they are: It feels good to feel good. Consumption of animal protein increases risk of cancer as well as other diseases. Forks Over Knives and the China Study make this...
Why Egg Freezing Moves Us in the Wrong Direction
Facebook and Apple recently announced plans to pay for their female employees to freeze their eggs for non-medical reasons. It sounds so friendly to women, doesn’t it? - a triumph of technology over biology, relieving us from the pressure of child bearing and...
Why I am leaving the best job I ever had
Bravo.
