As part of my series of reflections on leadership I’ve been mulling this post over for a few months. I recently shared my experience of trauma and burnout and am continuing my recovery. In this process I have noticed some patterns and places where we have opportunities to lead better…

As a follow up to my post reflection on leadership in the digital era, I wanted to dig a little deeper and explore some specific areas of leadership that sometimes go unexplored, or unsaid. Its my hunch that being explicit about behaviours that both empower or diminish you and your…

Recently, as part of a job application process, I had to answer the question, “What does leadership and delivery in the internet era mean to me?” While the application didn’t work out, it did provide me with an excellent opportunity to reflect on leadership… both in terms of what I…

This morning I wondered to myself. What will 2030 be like? …

Reflections on learning what my inner voice of privilege and oppression sounds like. — I’m sharing a story of one moment where I leaned into discomfort. I hope it will help you learn how to listen for the thoughts that have been ingrained by privilege. For me, it’s instructive to understand my bias towards inaction, see the habits and hear the internal monologue that…

Fractals … those apparently chaotic patterns that repeat as you zoom in or out… it’s the metaphor I hold in my brain to explain my basic understanding of quantum behaviour. I was first introduced to that idea in an introductory course in deep democracy. Admittedly, its a bit of a…

reflecting on One Team Gov Global and International Design in Gov — More than two weeks have passed since I flew to London and was part of One Team Gov Global and International Design in Gov. Since then, I’ve been reading the reflections of others and letting my own brain steep… I’ve spent this past week on vacation with family. Traveling back…

This is a recap of a talk given at the International Design in Gov conference in London on July 17th. The bit about Nova Scotia… Nova Scotia is located on the east coast of Canada, on the North Atlantic ocean. I first want to acknowledge that the Mi’kmaw people have existed in the territories of…

What started as a brief (and conspiratorial) conversation with my colleague Susie Floresco in Ontario, has become an ongoing project/lesson for me in community building. Federal civil servants, provincial and territorial teams, municipal folks, civic tech organizations… so many of people working inside governments are passionate about being a part…