I had lunch today with my friend R. Paul Herman, founder of very cool investment concept and company called HIP Investor.  HIP stands for Human Impact + Profit. They’ve created a new index called the HIP 100 Index (TM) and it uses a completely new method for evaluating corporate profit and sustainability.  This is such [...]

Today I presented to a group of college students at my Alma Mater, Western Washington University. I was invited to speak to the students about leadership, and to share a few things I had learned since graduating. I decided that this was a malleable group of tomorrow’s leaders, so I focused on three leadership traits [...]

Over the last three years I’ve been very impressed with Edelman’s goodpurpose report. They interview roughly 6,000 people from 10 countries to get a sense of consumer trends particularly as it relates to societal issues (environment, human services, education etc.)  As a social entrepreneur who has spent her career finding ways to strengthen nonprofits, I’m [...]

One of my 2010 new year’s resolutions is to write more often and to share that writing with others. I love writing and I actually journal nearly daily, but I’ve been resistant to sharing my writing publicly. A big dream of mine is to publish a book that I’ve been loosely working on, which means [...]