Because the way we show up at home shapes the way we lead everywhere else. I’m honoured to be one of the dads featured in REBL Dad: What 100+ Fathers Reveal About Successful Leadership at Home and Work. The book asks a question many of us carry, even if we don’t always say it out loud: Am I the best dad I can be? For those of us leading teams in demanding industries – mining, engineering, construction, manufacturing, energy – that question hits close to home. We spend our day

Proud, Not Boastful Hardworking. Ambitious. Stronger together. Proudly Canadian. Canada Day is a good moment to pause and take pride in who we are. As Canadians, we don’t always like to make a big show of things. We tend to be proud without being boastful. Ambitious without needing to shout about it. Hard-working without expecting a medal for doing the job. But we should be proud. Across this country — in mining, engineering, construction, manufacturing, energy, and every ind

Motivation changes when summer arrives. School’s out for summer. The vacation calendar is full. Employees have cottage weekends, family trips, and days off planned. Parents are juggling camps, childcare, and kids who’d much rather be outside than following anyone’s schedule. And, honestly, most of us would rather be at the beach than sitting in another meeting on a beautiful summer afternoon. But the work still has to get done. That doesn’t mean leaders need to pretend summer

\ Information becomes valuable when we use it. We often hear the phrase, “Feedback is a gift.” I understand the intention. Feedback can be valuable. It can help us grow, improve, and see things we might otherwise miss. But I prefer a different way of thinking about it: Feedback is data. Data isn’t inherently good or bad. It’s information. It gives us something to examine, understand, and act on. That distinction matters. When someone tells us our communication wasn’t clear, a

The future of leadership is still human I recently read a New York Times article with a title that made me smile: That Meeting You Hate May Keep A.I. From Stealing Your Job. The idea is worth thinking about. AI can analyze information, generate reports, summarize data, draft presentations, and help us work more efficiently. But work has never been only about producing information. It’s about persuading someone to support a difficult decision. Reassuring a team when uncertaint

Prepared teams can weather almost anything. There’s something spectacular about a summer thunderstorm in Canada. The air changes first. The humidity builds. The sky darkens. Then comes the distant rumble, followed by flashes of lightning and the kind of heavy rain that makes you stop what you’re doing and watch. When you’re safely inside, a storm can be beautiful. Powerful. Even calming in its own way.But that same storm feels very different if you’re caught outside without s