I am spending the end of 2021 surrounded by gorgeous snow-covered mountains in Colorado. While we have been enjoying a sunny and unseasonably warm winter in Denver, the snow has (finally) started falling in the mountains. We need snow in the mountains (so we have water in Denver next summer)…

A year ago, I wrote a blog called I Just Couldn’t Get Out of Bed Anymore — Hitting the COVID Wall. Some days the summer of 2020 seems ages ago; other days it seems like yesterday. While COVID was in full swing last year, so was my personal learning journey…

CELEBRATION On September 30th we finished our 2021 fiscal year at Water For People . It was an incredible year with many significant accomplishments, including: ·Successfully completing our 2017–2021 Strategic Plan. We blew past our impact goal of 4 million people by reaching 4.67 …

Life during COVID (DC) is droning on, yet there is now light at the end of the tunnel. Summer is approaching and the vaccination rate is going up in the U.S. Therefore some normalcy and mobility is returning to our routines. I do admit I have been challenged to remember…

This is reshare of blog I wrote for the the Skoll Foundation in January 2021. Skoll | How A Pandemic and Wellbeing Practices Honed My Leadership Skills If you could track my radius of movement since March 2020, I bet 98 percent of my footsteps were in my house. At first…skoll.org If you could track my radius of movement since March 2020, I bet 98 percent of my footsteps were in my house. At first my new and small world DC (during COVID) was claustrophobic and…

I was recently reminded by our leadership team coach, Julianna Christie, that humans only experience five emotions (or four or six depending on which article you read) — joy, fear, disgust, anger, and sadness. This rediscovery made me think of the Pixar movie Inside Out from a few years ago…

I couldn’t get out of bed last week. I usually do the 5-minute snooze but my routine had devolved to a 30-minute and eventually to a 1-hour snooze. I finally would get up when something inside told me I was down to the wire. I would then race to take…

Our world as we know it has turned upside-down over the past two weeks due to COVID-19. If I am not obsessively reading the news, I am worrying about the potential impacts of the pandemic on my family, employees, and the people we serve at Water For People. Being a…

I just returned from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It was my second time attending (see my blog from two years ago: Davos Revealed…). The circumstances behind going this year were quite different. It was an idea that came together just a few weeks ago, and an opportunity…