Archive for October, 2006

Education & Training Time Travels

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Talk about the relativity of time and space, in the last two weeks, I’ve trained an amazing group of people for some visionary folks in Salt Lake City in awakening to their personal power or as my co-trainer said so well, “discovering who they are not.” I’m getting them ready to take on the more [...]

Something New to Consider?

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

Harvard University’s Robert Putnam research on Diversity points to something obvious, people don’t trust one another. There are plenty of smart people out there trying desperately to understand why we are so afraid. Is it because something going to get us. Eventually it will. But in the mean time our fear allows us to be [...]

I Lead Out - OSU Alumni Speech

Monday, October 9th, 2006

Recently I spoke to the Ohio State University Alumni Association. It was great to be able to contribute to this diverse group of men and women representing my “Go Buckeyes!” roots. My theme was “Giving to Get and Getting to Give.” I received a standing ovation. As a speaker, I asked myself “how was I [...]

Answering the Question "Why Diversity"

Saturday, October 7th, 2006

“Generally understood and embraced, is not casual liberal tolerance of anything and everything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other races, other voices, other habits of mind, have as much integrity of being, as much claim upon the world, as you [...]