This Happy Christmas morning

 December 25, 2019 |Colleen O’ Connell-Campbell
Christmas mornings are different now. My teenage & young adult sons sleep in. There’s a fresh pot of coffee on and I sit with a mug (it might have a splash of Bailey’s in it…) reading beside the lit Christmas tree, with carols playing quietly in the background...
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Outlook 2020 for the Self Made Nation

 December 18, 2019 |Colleen O’ Connell-Campbell
This is the time of year when analysts, pundits and other soothsayers announce their predictions for the new year. As we kick off a new decade, the Prediction Addiction (or maybe Affliction?) has grown even stronger! I understand why: it’s fun to imagine...
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Let your business grow up, already!

 December 11, 2019 |Colleen O’ Connell-Campbell
My mother raised us with sage input from Dr. Spock. I remember that dog-eared, broken-spine book lying beside her bed. I can still picture the cover. By the time I was raising my boys, we were inundated with parenting books. Eat this, Whisper that, Ferber...
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Are you ready for the 4th Industrial Revolution?

 December 04, 2019 |Colleen O’ Connell-Campbell
It really hit me - the reality that we’re in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution – when I heard Janice Gross Stein, Founding Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto, speak at the RBC Women’s...
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