Five Tips for Throwing Awesome Dinner Parties

This past Saturday my lovely wife, who is also her own woman, Michelle and I hosted four friends for dinner and the experience was spectacular. Here’s how to host awesome dinner parties. Host Awesome Dinner Parties One of my favourite ways to collaborate with...

Three Tips for Rising Above Gossip

Eleanor Roosevelt – allegedly – said that “great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events;  small minds discuss people.” People talking about people is often referred to as gossip and it can be a toxic influence in workplaces, classrooms, families, circles of...

7 Tips for Adapting to Travel Disaster

On the morning of July 6, 2013, I was waiting with my redheaded partner, Theo, in the Vancouver International Airport US Departures terminal, preparing to board a United Airlines flight to San Francisco. We were on our way to California to kick off our two week...

How to be Creative: Ideation, Risk and Play

The Potentiality’s Cartoonist in Residence, Phil Skipper, has an interesting take on creativity. Here is how Phil captured our personal and collective definitions of creativity: “Creativity means artistry. Poetry, web design, math, bicycle repair, public speaking....

How to Make Awesome Introductions

Being introduced to people is one of the best ways to become part of a community. As a career practitioner, I’m in the business of making hundreds of human connections every year and this article will explore how to make awesome introductions. Over the years I’ve made...