What do you carry (11 cabbages & a grudge against your father for never coming back?)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication, Social Responsibility, Teambuilding
My attention is always caught by creativity; because it’s a great springboard to unusual ways of thinking & problem solving. This cab driver’s sign is a great example & got me thinking. What do you carry? The things we carry tell stories. They serve up memories from the past & memories yet to […]
Tags: decision making, motivation, peggy mcintosh, privilege
Police, secret service agents & FBI are everywhere.
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Conflict resolution, Social Responsibility
Police, secret service agents & FBI are everywhere. And those are only the ones I can see. I wonder how many snipers are stationed out of sight. Roads are blocked with huge cement bomb blast protectors. Traffic is cordoned off & diverted, while the streets are a colourful riot of every skin shade you can […]
Tags: action, paul hawken, reflection, social change, united nations
The HUMANitarians project; Juozas & Anita make me proud to be a Canadian
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Social Responsibility, Travel
Sometimes, if you’re lucky, your path merges with individuals who make you think, bring a smile to your face, a warmth to your heart & inspire you to action. Juozas Cernius & Anita Vizsy are two such folks. They’re in East Africa to document Canadians doing good work. It’s part of a photographic documentary project […]
Tags: juozas cernius
What does school really teach children?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Social Responsibility, Training & development
After a long, challenging year where one of my kids wasn’t invited back from one school year to the next (an almost straight A student & class president) I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about formal education. Some schools teach the above. So do some trainers. Authority, compliance & repetition rules. My kids have […]
Tags: access and inclusion, compliance, creativity, critical thought, truth theory
The Rock.Paper.Scissors newsletter is out: resources related to Emmanuel Jal, former child soldier
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Social Responsibility
This month’s Rock.Paper.Scissors e-newsletter focuses on what Emmanuel Jal, international hip-hop star & former child soldier had to say when I sat down with him. Read the entire issue here. Not on the monthly e-newsletter mailing list? Sign up for free here. Emmanuel Jal. If he’s not on your radar, he should be. The following […]
Tags: emmanuel jal, maya angelou, Tara Sophia Mohr
Training & development learning well December blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication, Conflict resolution, Social Responsibility, Training & development
December is about to bid farewell & with that, usher in a new year. If you didn’t catch all the posts this month simply usher yourself down to the well & click as you wish. Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into the learning well or take a small sip. […]
Tags: africa, communication, evaluation, holidays, hope, inspiration, ladysmith black mambazo, perspective, rock.paper.scissors newsletter, social change, twitter
I’m selling my soul, are you?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Social Responsibility
I sold my soul. I sold my soul in New York City. I’m still selling my soul. I will always sell my soul. Perspective. It’s a tricky thing. It’s an intriguing thing. It can be a brick wall or a wide open window. The number one hit on ‘selling your soul’ is selling your soul […]
Tags: danielle laporte, new york city, perspective, soul, Wellness
Perspective on public peeing – are public toilets a gift? (& other issues of access & inclusion)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Social Responsibility, Training & development, Travel
Skip to the loo – why public toilets matter is a fascinating article by Michael Harris in the Walrus magazine. Have you ever been caught needing to use a public toilet and yet not being able to find one? Ever talked your way into a restaurant bathroom, in a restaurant that you weren’t eating in, […]
Tags: access and inclusion
Chris Weeks, DHL’s Director of Humanitarian Affairs, on corporate responsibility
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Social Responsibility
Recently I co-hosted AIESEC’s Youth to Business Forum where 500 delegates came from 110 countries to engage, inspire and take action on three tracks: innovation, corporate responsibility and leadership. That’s my co-host Krishnan Ananthakrishnan, from UNHABITAT, and I above. It was a real honour to meet some of the delegates and key speakers. Here are […]
Tags: chris weeks, corporate responsibility, dhl, jessica fraser, marianne knuth, mobile movement, pioneers of change, Social Responsibility
Learning about change & the power of music to rock the world from United Nations ‘Messenger of Truth’ Sara Mitaru©
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Social Responsibility
Imagine being able to write “Messenger of Truth” as a job title on your CV. That’s what the incomparable Sara Mitaru can claim. What exactly is a messenger of truth? The United Nation’s Messengers of Truth (MOT) Project has 3 major objectives: to inform youth living in slums and inner cities of the Millennium Development […]
Tags: messenger of truth, sara mitaru, social change, storytelling, united nations