When I began writing the book Future Minded: Preparing Today’s Youth for Tomorrow’s Workplace, I imagined that digital skills would be at the forefront of the skills needed, however what I found is that though technological skills are essential now and in the future, we do have some issues that…

Recently, I met a friend for lunch and as one does with friends, there was a lot of kvetching. Sadly, or rather realistically, much of the conversation was about work (because #adulting). Accountability, or lack thereof was something we discussed in great depth. Mostly, it had to do with the…

Those of us who are far away from those fun-filled days and nights of college wax poetic over how they were the best days of our lives. And those were the best days of our lives in many ways. If you think about it, it’s one of the only times…

“Be Kind” is one of those phrases that is constantly bandied about by people, but we shouldn’t treat it lightly. Because everyone can agree on the fact that the world can never have enough kindness. Kindness is inherent in being an empathetic person. Empathy goes hand in hand with kindness…

Our world was turned on its head with the COVID-19 pandemic. Besides the radical changes it has brought to our personal and professional lives, it has also highlighted that as a species, we seem to be losing the skill of critical thinking the very thing that separates man from animal…

“Change brings uncertainty, and for many people, uncertainty is terrifying.” The skill of adaptability in self and adaptability in life, i.e. to be able to assess the context and be able to figure out how to mold yourself, if needed, to adapt to that context is a key competency. The…

In a survey conducted by two British researchers, they found that 75% of the employees said that the biggest drain on their resilience was dealing with difficult people or office politics at work(1). And of the nearly 30 interviews that I conducted, one of the chief complaints by business leaders…

In a training that I conducted, where the participants were young millennials and gen-z, one of the participants raised the question that, if their generations were able to label and understand the emotion, why didn’t it make them more emotionally intelligent? Why are there so many more “trigger” warnings now…

When my older son was about ten years old, he said that he wanted to be a “You Tuber” when he grew up. We had already cycled through the usual job options that most little boys want. He wanted to be a policeman, a fireman, a teacher, a cashier at…