Adsum: Being Here with David Firth

David: ‘Are we going to be OK?’

Heather:  ‘We may need to get a new definition of OK.’

Heather A. Cook, MA, MPH, LPC, is the Principal of HECO Consulting. 

Heather is a scientist, integrative systems thinker, and a navigator of the individual and collective human experience. Above all, she is a consultant in the traditional sense of ‘gathering the people who know.’  Her background in Laboratory Science, Public Health, Emergency Preparedness and Psychology provides her with a unique ability to support individuals and organizations through complex situations.

With this combination of disciplines, she says, “I fuse the art and science of exploration, discovery, and practical application. The result is that a newfound capacity is accessed for the people I work with, which allows both the individual leader and their team to emerge stronger from whatever it is facing.”

’Lessons from theater, Landmark Education and falling in love at a distance...'

Marc is founder and Managing Director of Emailogic – a consultancy and training company that specializes in changing organizational email cultures. His background spans Psychology, Information Technology, HR and Theatre. Originally he trained as an engineer, then as a professional actor after which he acted for 6 years. Since then and for the last 25 years he has been helping businesses use technology more effectively through changing human behaviors.

His passion and work is all about empowering organizations to move forwards with new ways of gaining time, improving well-being and increasing productivity.

The audio version of my email newsletter, July 21, 2020, with some additional thoughts on what's possible in communities in the light of the George Floyd killing and its aftermath.

Having spent so much time in my workshops reading other people's poetry out, I accepted a challenge to write a poem. This is it.

Give yourself a minute - or specifically one minute and two seconds - to listen to this beautiful poem by Vaclav Havel. This is a poem about the faith we must have that our individual actions can and will make a difference.

An extract from a recent interview, addressing the problems associated with Virtual Communication.