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Samantha Codi Walker Samantha Codi Walker

Fueling Your Creative Spark

Fueling our creative spark 🔥✨ Making time for play, embracing our physical space, and even allowing ourselves to be bored—it's all part of the process.

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Lisa Keohokalole Schauer Lisa Keohokalole Schauer

Live Your North®

Organizations that give voice to their values are stronger — and that's just the truth. That's why we're proud to announce the launch of our newly-revised Live Your North Values Sort. Learn how it works and give it a try.

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Chris Selk Chris Selk

5 Timeless Lessons from Barbie

It’s been almost a year since Barbie first came out, and yet, it’s still having an enormous impact on our cultural conversation. As we move through this Women’s History Month, we wanted to highlight five of our favorite quotes from this movie which is fun, fantastic, and above all, female-forward.

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Cadie Dye Cadie Dye

Why Values Deserve a Seat at the Table – Findings from Our Dinner Table Series

As a leader, you know you want to inspire action rooted in your values – but it can be easy to get bogged down in tools and best practices. While each tool adds to the development of people and teams, understanding the threads that tie people and organizations together and working to uncover deep motives led us down a path of exploring values – specifically how our values shape, align and move us as individuals and teams.

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Lisa Keohokalole Schauer Lisa Keohokalole Schauer

Does Love Have a Place in the World of Work?

How often do you talk about love in your work? It's historically been relegated to the realm of personal life, but we'd argue that love actually plays a central role in any great work and our great work together

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Monica Santos-Pinacho Monica Santos-Pinacho

Transcreation—The Art & Science of Meaningful Multicultural Engagement

Meaningful multilingual engagement is our baseline for work. After all, what’s the point in doing work in a community if it doesn’t speak to that community? But simple translation doesn’t go far enough –– we need the people we work with to truly understand the nuances of the conversation.

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Chris Selk Chris Selk

Forget About Work-Life Balance – Try This Instead

The truth is, sometimes your work life requires more of you, and sometimes your home life requires more. If your goal is to make sure that everything is 50/50, all the time, you will constantly be trying to shift something, and that takes so much energy

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Lisa Keohokalole Schauer Lisa Keohokalole Schauer

You Pick Two: How to Find Focus in Complexity

How do you square that circle of having a number of first priorities? You pick two. We have started a “You Pick Two” policy at PointNorth, inspired by the simplicity and focus framing of the Panera Bread menu.

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