I spent time over the last couple of years travelling to Portland, Oregon to help a passionate and courageous group of people strategise about how they were going to bring their new organisation into being. The result is Ocean Outcomes: an organisation dedicated to helping communities and the seafood industry improve the sustainability of wild fisheries. Not […]
I am pleased as punch to have been elected to the Board of Directors for WOCAN. Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN) is a global non-profit organisation working out of Bangkok, Thailand to make demonstrable, measurable change in women’s lives. It is a vast networked organisation that focuses on women’s […]
I am proud and excited to announce that I am the new Executive Director of the EDGE Certified Foundation. EDGE stands for Economic Dividends for Gender Equality. EDGE is a global certification scheme created in Switzerland and is dedicated to closing the workplace gender gap. This voluntary scheme takes a systemic and strategic approach to […]
This post is inspired by the launch of our associate Edward Kellow’s new website “Kellow Learning“. “…change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not.” Arnold Beisser, The Paradoxical Theory of Change, 1970 In a classic and often quoted work about Gestalt therapy, Beisser sets […]
I wrote this in January, 2013. The journey to make shift happen at Meridian Prime really took off after this! It’s been a reflective start to 2013. For some months I’ve been playing around with ideas to rebrand and relaunch my work and my company. By the end of the year I had come up […]
We are pleased and proud to launch Meridian Prime’s new website, branding, tag line and approach. We have embraced the idea of making shift happen for ourselves and of banishing the beige from our lives, especially work. To that end, we have created a dynamic and more contemporary web presence. Along with the new look, […]
Making shift happen is a process that results in changes you want to see for yourself, your team or your organisation. The steps are simple: 1. Create a vision of the results you want to realise or the direction you want to head in (your desired outcome). 2. Devise the strategies you believe will get […]
I have found a wonderful new way to tell my story about making shift happen in my work and in my business. Using a great app called Haiku Deck and my iPad, I have created this slideshow. I hope you enjoy it….
My recent musings and reflections have led to a change in branding and look for my company Meridian Prime. I have followed through with my promise to revisit my visual and virtual presence. Inspired by my desire to banish the beige and to be more bold in the world, as well as my commitment to […]
It’s been a reflective start to 2013. For some months I’ve been playing around with ideas to rebrand and relaunch my work and my company. By the end of the year I had come up with a strap line that I thought would send the right messages to sensible, middle-of-the-road potential clients. I hired a […]