Year / 2016

Barcilona, Spain – June 2016 CHS Alliance Conference on Humanitarian HR on the front lines…

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I have been teaching 4 and 5 day capacity building workshops in Central Asia, North Africa, the Middle East, North America, and Europe for nearly 20 years now. I have been doing between two and ten each year, mostly on

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Lately I have been reading and reflecting on the meaning transformation. It is a word used quite liberally by people writing about leadership, international development, theology and other fields. You can easily get a half million hits from a Google …

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I have been feeling a bit melancholy this past month. I am not sure why, but maybe it has something to do with my strange job. As the director of Operation Mercy, there are two things that make my job …

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castle walls 1In ancient days, many castles consisted of three defensive perimeters. The outer wall, the inner wall and the keep. The keep was the final place for retreat. If the enemy penetrated the outer and inner walls, it was

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