Perspectives from the 44th Floor
When I first created the newsletter on my own site many, many years ago I named it Perspectives. I felt that perspectives were important but I didn’t realise how important that approach would be until I spent some time learning about Futures Thinking. I am travelling at the moment with my husband in Southeast Asia […]
Time and Space
Clocks and Globes Time and space—two concepts that have fascinated us for centuries. And the realisation that my husband and I collect clocks and globes, anchoring us in time and space, even as we travel, imagine and create. https://youtu.be/q_K_2sj8P9Q
CAPS 2023
The Wisdom We Learn from Africa I was invited to speak at the annual convention for the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers (CAPS) in 2023. They asked me to speak about Africa, in 20 minutes. There is no way to do justice to a continent of over a billion people in that short space of […]
GSF Presidents’ Breakfast
I am honoured to have been elected to the position of President of the Global Speakers Federation (GSF) recently. The Past Presidents of the GSF come together to hold (now a virtual) breakfast to show support and offer insights to the incoming President. The GSF is a worldwide body to which our various local and […]
GSA 2023 – The Future is Africa
Thank you for joining me on this exploration about our narratives about Africa, and ultimately about any unfamiliar part of our world. I would love to hear from you if you find more examples or insights. When we are prepared to challenge our narratives we can bring more value to our audiences. Chimamanda Adichie’s Ted […]
The Doomsday Clock gets closer to midnight
There is nothing like the title of ‘Doomsday Clock’ to make people pay a little more attention. And when it moves closer to a metaphorical apocalyptic disaster, we should consider how our human actions are destroying our future. Part of this post has been prepared by Open.AI
Reinvention – a story
As a professional speaker, I have the opportunity to sometimes hear a truly great speaker with a fantastic message. You might know the kind – its when the message and the experience stay with you months after others are forgotten. It is what I aspire to be. But the speaker I have in […]
A Pre-meditation of Evils
Premeditatio malorum, a premeditation of evils, is the Stoic exercise of imagining what can go wrong. Think of it as the opposite of ‘positive thinking’ – the practice of negative thinking that allows us to imagine the worst, get all the emotion out of they way, and then begin preparations to either avoid or ameliorate […]
Complex, Critical, Creative
This is the start of the list of skills that the World Economic Forum believes that workers will need to be successful in the market place of 2020, or, as some label the state, the Fourth Industrial Revolution. As we move more towards an environment where software and machines can do ever more of the […]
When a business has foresight
When a business has foresight Many years ago, in another life, I attended in the same month, the Birthday party for the company I worked for, and the Anniversary party for the company that my (then) husband worked for. What was the difference? My company was young. Its staff were young. Its technology was new. […]