Do you feel that your organization needs to be more innovative? Are you facing challenges that are not easily addressed through conventional problem-solving approaches? Are you finding that [...]
“Change is the only constant.” This was one of the key themes I wanted to emphasize as I kicked off the 2-day workshop at the UN Mission in Cap-Haitien, a coastal town in Haiti. The context: the [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I gave myself a birthday present that some would find atypical –registration to a professional conference. Yes, I’m a nerd. And while there are quite a few things on my [...]
As often happens in my world, it all started with a simple e-mail. This particular one came from the UN Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). It said that they were planning for major downsizing and [...]
At a workshop I attended a couple of years, we were all asked to come up with a six-word sentence that captures who you are. The sentence I came up with in the few minutes we had for this [...]
6 Questions to Kick Off the New Year Three days for a professional development workshop could seem like a very long time to take off work. But last month, as we entered the final day of our [...]
Four years ago, two students at the University for Peace requested that I run a workshop on ‘Innovation in the Social Sector’ for a conference they were planning. I said “Yes, of course,” [...]
Psychologist Dr. Martin Seligman, widely viewed as the ‘father of positive psychology’, asserts that human flourishing is about five things: experiencing positive emotions, being engaged with [...]
In his latest video blog, UPEACE Centre for Executive Education founder Mohit Mukherjee tells us the Centre’s story, and why he was inspired to create a new way to share the UPEACE [...]
I was beginning to get nervous. The Brazil-Croatia World Cup kick-off game was a just an hour away and I was still on phone call. I had been looking forward to this day since the last World Cup [...]