Delight 2014 – Reflections Part Three – Meaning

This week features a series of posts endeavoring to draw themes from the Delight Conference 2014 in Portland, as well as Design Week Portland. I shall each day post some thoughts collected in categories of creativity, curiosity, meaning, community, and empathy....

Delight 2014 – Reflections Part Two – Community

This week features a series of posts endeavoring to draw themes from the Delight Conference 2014 in Portland, as well as Design Week Portland. I shall each day post some thoughts collected in categories of creativity, curiosity, meaning, community, and empathy....

Delight 2014 – Reflections Part One – Creativity

This week features a series of posts endeavoring to draw themes from the Delight Conference 2014 in Portland, as well as Design Week Portland. I shall each day post some thoughts collected in categories of creativity, curiosity, meaning, community, and empathy....

HR Reinvention: Be the Change with Conversation

I recently spoke at the HR Reinvention Conference as part of the Ignite session. Ignite is a  format where the presentation is limited to 20 slides that automatically rotate every 15 seconds. It is fast, pithy, potent and exhilarating. The overall theme for the...

To Conference or Not To Conference

“I discovered that I stopped going in to hear the speakers, and I would spend all my time chatting with people in the lobby about what they’re working on. The real value of these events was the conversations and the relationships that were created between people. What...

Lessons from the YP Summit

At last Thursday’s Omaha YP Summit, several threads wove together to confirm, for me, the inherent thrilling potential of conversation. At the opening keynote, Adam Braun of Pencils of Promise exhorted us to observe the true revolution that existing within our...