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Originally published in The Huffington Post, September 13, 2011

What if your thought leadership got you very little recognition today but contributed to an … Read on >

A fantastic article by Tom Vanderbilt in the March issue of Outside got me thinking. Vanderbilt tells the story of an “extreme” bike commuter, and along the way raises the topic of the psychology behind how and why cyclists and drivers have became so polarized. If you are like … Read on >

If you were ever knee deep in research about traditional business leadership traits and sustainability leadership, like I am due to my Master’s thesis work, you’d see the very clear connection between the two.  Being a forward or future-oriented thinker, and being able to see issues as interconnected, in a … Read on >

In analyzing how companies and humans engage with and start to change their behaviors in the sustainable direction, I like to look a bit beyond the obvious. To me, the human values and traits behind all decision-making are what start to nudge people (whether as business people or private … Read on >

What’s the key to sustainability?  Systems thinking.  What’s the sustainability systems thinker’s secret? Empathy.  Who might be particularly good at contributing, and teaching, that way of thinking? Women.

My latest HuffingtonPost piece reflects the coalescing of my consulting and master’s program work toward a new research focus.  How can we … Read on >

“The End of Men,” a cover article for the July/August issue of The Atlantic written by feminist scholar Hanna Rosin, got me thinking about our extreme cultural pendulum swings.  Do we really need to swing from seeing women as wholly unimportant to seeing men as wholly unimportant? My gender … Read on >

If you follow me on Twitter,  you could likely tell I was pretty excited about being able to attend the University of Michigan’s (my alma mater!) commencement in early May, where President Obama spoke.  It was an incredible experience, and I left inspired to think differently and to … Read on >

It’s difficult to change thinking in a society that has been both quite patriarchal and quite unsustainably-minded for some time.  Considered from an anthropological view, these sorts of things could take hundreds, if not thousands, of years to evolve.  But still (!) – especially in marketing – the consumers are … Read on >

My recent post on whether or not marketing to women has to be a women-only pursuit (short answer – absolutely not) got me thinking on a broader point: why does it take a bit of gender outrage (and, so-labeled “feminist” commentators/authors/bloggers often get things going) in order for human … Read on >

There have been a lot of interesting discussions about gender balance and power shifts lately.  One was Morice Mendoza’s BusinessWeek piece (he is also the editor of Women-omics.com, to which I contribute) about the World Economic Forum in Davos, and another was a New York Times article … Read on >