At the start of December 2021, I ran a rapid innovation challenge session with a small group of teenagers from Puerto Rico on a school trip to Geneva. I’ve been creating and running innovation and entrepreneurship challenges with young people in schools, libraries, universities and UN projects for 10 years…

Global Entrepreneurship Week 2021 is here. It’s fantastic that it coincides with the last week of COP26 because our entrepreneurship eco-systems have so much to share to turn climate action pledges into reality. Imagine Global Entrepreneurship Week 2031 if we do: a cooler, calmer, equitable world on the trajectory of…

I know that you’ve been working hard, adjusting and readjusting; and I know that you’re conscious of the urgent need to engage and empower our communities to take climate action. It feels like we have a mountain to climb; but there are ways to climb mountains…and then there are ways…

The tipping points we are at in climate chaos are calling on us to do things differently; to embrace being fully human. As changemakers, if we are exhausted then we can’t arrive in each day with our problem-solving creativity to challenge the status quo of zero-sum economics. …

The moment when someone allows an idea to form fascinates me. It is like watching the Universe tenderly kiss them on the brow and encourage them out into the spotlight. Whether a child or an adult, it’s a moment so pure in its vulnerability, a splitting of light…

After more than 25 years working in social innovation and entrepreneurship, I have a joyful longing which is bubbling over, a need to disrupt the status quo, a burning desire to do as Rumi suggested, “Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation…

I don’t need to ask permission from anyone to walk out of my door into the wilderness. I just put my coat over my pyjamas and pull on my walking shoes and off I go into the mountain air. Technically, I’m walking in the sky. Well, we all are really…

Somewhere along the way, you signed up to make good change happen in the world. In these unusual times, creating powerful solutions for the planet, means that you need to be more creative than ever. The deal you make with the Universe, if you’re using the word ‘innovative’ anywhere…

I’ve been littering my articles with talk about love for some time now. I see that some of you are also beginning to say the L-word too, which is excellent. Perhaps we can join forces and work together? Why? Why do I keep talking about love? Why do I keep…