An open FAQ — On May 8, 2023 (two weeks from this publishing), I’ll be tallying the results on my bid to attract excellent, passionate talent to The Exchange Lab’s mission to “accelerate modernization of the BC Public Service.” You can apply to the job here, and find it referenced on various job boards…

A time traveler, a climate scientist, and a musician walk into a bar… — Perhaps you are familiar with the experience of trying to express to someone the need for change. Maybe, change isn’t the message, but trouble is. Something is going wrong and something’s gotta give to avoid the worst. That’s the generic trope of the song. In the music video, the…

Breathing and singing through Wildfire — 2017 heightened concern about the nearer term impact of a changing climate that was thought to be slow moving. While observing the dramatic scale of destruction that seemed far away, many of us in British Columbia and beyond experienced the eerie glow of wildfire smoke filled skies. Of course, this…

The making of a song to dance to like the world is on fire. — Action. Movement. Desperation. Passion. The third song on the album is intended to signal what the artists felt was needed in the first decade after the Paris Climate Agreement. “Twilight of Paris” is a dance party. 🎶 After the stodgy, suit filled conference sessions. After the hard nosed negotiations. Toward…

A song about COP 21 — Danton and Heather didn’t plan to attend the Paris climate talks. They did imagine what it might be like, though. In preparing for this song, and the rest of the story of Decades After Paris (DAP), they sketched a journey of what it would feel like in each part of…

The Dawn of Decades After Paris — We come from all the lands to rally once again Connected by all the dots of droughts, melting and rain. We poured into the streets, a flooding of hopeful beats. Four hundred thousand strong, the swell of a rising sea. Together we march in the streets of New York. Mosaic of…

Imagine it is decades after the 2015 international climate change negotiations in Paris. The world now has full awareness of the impact of humanity’s centuries long alteration of the atmosphere. No longer is there tolerance for burning fossil fuels. Rainforests are guarded with national security measures. We are suffering intense…

A poem — What is this feeling amidst the joy? A conflict. A peaceful morning. Sheltered. Warm coffee. I reflect on weeks gone by. I retrospect. Patterns emerge from the murkiness of threads, interrupts, and outputs. Inching forward, I suppose. That is the sense. And I’m callused by the rub of bigger patterns…

Opinion: Senior Leaders who spend more time figuring out how to support teams get better results, faster. — Visionary leadership and passionate endorsement are critical elements when we’re setting up teams to do hard, meaningful work, like service design and delivery. Every time I’ve kicked off something others thought couldn’t be done, we’ve made sure senior leaders were in the room. …