I was lucky enough to spend last Friday morning at a café in San Francisco’s Ferry Building. Recently I’ve made a habit of spending Fridays there. I don’t live in San Francisco but I tend to have meetings in SF, which means the Ferry Building often becomes a bit of a home base for me. There’s [...]

Back in December, when my family was handing out holiday gifts, my mom gave me and my husband Dan an incredible present.
About ten years ago, my mom bought this etching of a couple, rowing their boat in fast waters.
At the time, she wasn’t quite sure why the painting spoke to her, but she saw it [...]

I’m not a big fan of New Year’s Resolutions. I really never have been.
Mainly I don’t like the idea of waking up one day and declaring things like, “I will now exercise more”. While I do believe a New Year offers the chance for a new start, I think more often than not, New Year’s [...]

Everyone knows the saying, Change is Hard.
And anyone who’s ever tried to lead change – whether starting a new diet at home or starting a new initiative at work – knows that it can be incredibly tough to create lasting, effective change, even on the smallest of scales.
What stinks about that, though, is the fact [...]

This morning started out like any other day.
I was scheduled to attend the Communicating Sustainability conference in Santa Clara, CA, and in typical fashion, I was running a few minutes late.
Running out to my car, I didn’t notice anything amiss – at first.
But upon closer inspection, it hit me: shattered glass covered the driver’s side [...]

Hello everyone!
I am back from my cross country road trip and happy to report I am officially based in the San Francisco Bay Area again.
I have many stories to share from the road, but before I recap my trip, I wanted to give a quick plug for my friend and fellow Twitterer Aman Singh Das, Corporate [...]

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, my husband Dan and I have decided to trade in our winter jackets and snow boots for the sunny (and ok, sometimes overcast) skies of San Francisco.

To get there, we’ve decided to take two weeks and drive cross country. After all, after two years of business school, I think [...]

I’m incredibly pleased to announce that May marks the one year anniversary of The Changebase!
It’s amazing to think that what started out as just a small experiment has actually become one of the most fulfilling projects I’ve ever worked on.
The Changebase has not only been a great vehicle to learn and share ideas, but it [...]

I’m very pleased to announce that I’ll be live blogging (and tweeting!) from this year’s Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Conference April 11 – 13.
In case you’re not familiar with it, the BCCCC hosts an incredible conference each year that includes a “Who’s Who” list of CSR, sustainability, and philanthropy professionals from around the [...]

This past summer I got wind of an organization called All Day Buffet and an upcoming event they were hosting called The Feast. With names like that, I was immediately intrigued (after all, I do love food!). But when I read more about the event, I started to get really excited.
The Feast Conference gathers the world’s [...]