I am very excited to be working on Season Four of Storybooks, Gregg Jorritsma with… Season Four represents a change in direction for the season. This season we will focus on conversations with industry experts about issues like change managem…

It’s Labour Day and for millions around the world, this means only one thing. The kids go back to school tomorrow! It’s been several years now since my boys were starting school in the fall but even before I was a Dad, I always felt th…

When I was young, I used to hitchhike a lot. It was the 80’s, and well it was still commonplace. Most often I would travel from my hometown of Burks Falls to my older brother’s apartment in Toronto or about 375 kms each way. For about 4 …

Years ago, the company Career Builder came out with a series of very amusing advertisements that featured a frustrated employee who was quite literally working with monkeys. The ad and two subsequent series of ads asked the question, when is it time…

I’ve learned a lot about people since my son’s suicide but I’m not going to go on with telling you about finding out who my real friends are. I know who they are. I knew who there were then. One flew from across the country to be w…

When people ask me about my favorite album, I always assume they are talking about music but maybe one of the most impactful records I have ever listened to repeatedly is a spoken word album recorded in 1962 by the legendary salesmen J. Douglas Edwa…

Another week has come to an end and there are just a couple of random thoughts bouncing around this sarcastic mind of mine this Friday afternoon.  This week I had two voice mails left for me. That’s two more than all of last year or clos…

You spend weeks, maybe longer like me. :-) preparing the first blog post. Finally, I had put my first blog post to bed when an awful feeling struck me like hard truths do...now I have to write another one and another one and so on and so on. Like h…

“How intimidating can it be?”  That’s what I said to myself about starting a podcast. As it turns out it wasn’t at all, however writing a blog post has stymied me until now. A close friend of mine said “Just writ…