Inoculating Our Kids Against Pedophiles like Larry Nassar
Larry Nassar, once a world-renown sports physician to our country’s top female gymnasts, was convicted and sentenced last week for sexually abusing over 150 women and girls under his care. The details that emerged during the trial were heart wrenching. One of the most...
MTHFRs, Wake Up!
"Do no harm." - Hippocrates I wasn't going to write again so soon, but it's happening again.... We are being misled about the health of our children. From a person setting policy. From a pediatrician/professor/author who got published in the New York Times today...
Heavy Metals – Are you poisoned? I am.
I look and feel pretty healthy, but you can see it in the results of my hair test above. Mercury. Aluminum. Arsenic. Some other stuff. I’m a recovering chemist. If you’re not, you might assume you’re safe. I’m sorry. That’s not true. I didn’t work with most of these...
Dear Harvey Weinstein – #NotSexy
Memo to: Harvey Weinstein Subject: You are #NotSexy Dear Harvey, The times they are a changin’. It’s been a long time coming since you grew up in the 60’s and 70’s, but things are accelerating now. One day, you’re at the top of the heap. You have access to lots of...
The Epidemic of Angry White Men
Maybe we do know something... Remember when AIDS was still a mystery? In the early 1980s, people in the US were suddenly becoming sick and dying of a strange new illness. It was something we had never seen, and we were confused and afraid. By the time we started...
“Why Do Old People Get to Decide Our Future?”
The kids are asking. It's a good question. If Millennials had their choice, we'd be in a different situation today. Only 19% of them voted, and 8% of those that did, chose "other." So, some of the answer is in the math. Voting matters a lot. Whether you are happy...
Empathy Test
There is so much vis a vis empathy we could discuss in this campaign season. We don't want to bore you with all of it and don't even like wading into politics. But this past weekend, something fascinating happened, which has people talking about empathy by name and...
What It’s Really Going to Take to Get More Women in Leadership…and Why Men Should Care
https://youtu.be/UIx_6FEvtVQ Thanks to the Certified Financial Analyst Society of Cleveland for tackling this issue head-on at the City Club and to Eva Basilion for her contributions to this talk.
The Right Start, Right Here
Mayor Trevor Elkins of Newburgh Heights, Ohio (a small suburb of Cleveland) inspired the most progressive parental leave policy in the country: six-months paid leave for all of the village's full-time employees, women and men, biological parents and adoptive. That's...
The Most Important Homework
Did you catch Diane Rehm’s program on NPR last Thursday? Come spring, a group of schools in California will begin testing students on their social emotional skills. The debate among researchers and educators on the show was heated. What is the best way to assess...
Leadership with a Conscience
A talk and panel discussion about empathy, business, innovation with soul, and social justice at the 2015 CWRU Social Justice Institute Think Tank. Many thanks to Founder and Director, Dr. Rhonda Williams, for including us in this thoughtful and moving weekend....
What does the Pope have in Common with Working Parents? – (Leadership with a Conscience, Part II)
Leadership with a conscience: are we there yet? With 70 million people disengaged at work, it seems our heart and soul are someplace else. What about our conscience – that inner voice which guides our sense of right and wrong and our behavior? For too many of us,...
