An energizing couple of days at Fortune MPW spending time with a new generation of women entrepreneurs committed to change. #FortuneMPW

On this Memorial Day weekend, may we hold with gratitude and respect all who have fallen on the battlefield. The true honoring of those we’ve lost is not only in reverence and remembrance, but in recommitting ourselves to build the world they believed was worth dying for—a world

I recently had the privilege of meeting in the Acumen office with a group of purpose-driven INSEAD students from around the world. It got me thinking about the world business school students are entering, and the possibilities of reimagining our systems in a time of

The moral imagination asks that we hold close those we may never meet or know but whose lives are interdependent with ours. This notion that I am because you are has never been more important. Nor has the reminder that we rise and we fall together. May we practice seeing the

We live in a time in which we are taught to self-promote and to build "personal brands." And yet when you are in the presence of someone whose feet are grounded in the earth, who holds their heart and mind open, you can feel their presence. You can feel a connection to soul, to

“We’re taught that there are bad people and good people, monsters and angels. And yet the truth of the matter is that monsters and angels live in every single one of us.” — Jacqueline Novogratz Listen to my interview with Jacqueline: tim.blog/2021/05/04/jac…

📚 Books that expand how we see possibility. Here are some titles I've enjoyed recently (or am looking forward to) for this moment when we need both practical wisdom and deeper grounding: - "How Not to Be a Politician" by Rory Stewart: Honest insights from someone who walked

When we think about social enterprises, we sometimes forget how important their actual impact on people’s lives can be. Loved catching up with Kyle Denning, founder and CEO of Kentaste Products , Kenya’s leading producer of coconut products, including amazing coconut chips, cream

My life’s work has been built on the framework of interconnectedness — the idea that we are part of each other and of all living things. From this springs notions of dignity and the fullness of what it means to be alive. On this, we can reconsider all of our systems, including

I have sometimes felt like a buffalo walking deliberately through mud in 2025, shoulders pushing the work, all of me engaged and making slow but steady progress, sometimes stumbling but determined. I want to be used up when I die and it is years like this that remind me to keep

After an hour and a half flight from Nairobi, Kenya to Kigali, Rwanda, Acumen's East Africa Director Chris Maranga - Acumen EA Director and I drove directly to see Ampersand's assembly factory in one of Kigali’s industrial areas. Though it was not yet 9 am, the place was full of energy –

I've been struck lately by how many people focus on capturing moments on their phones rather than experiencing them, unaware of everything around them. Be interested in the world and look outward. The more we understand that we have the world within us and focus on loving the

There’s nothing like bumping into an Acumen fellow before 6 in the morning and getting an impromptu briefing on the amazing things he’s doing. I loved spending time with Michael Ogundare, Nigerian Foundry member (’21) and co-founder of Crop2Cash, a company that connects smallholder

Happiness is so often overlooked, yet it is here with us in everyday moments, maybe mostly in the ordinary. Everyday laughter, fleeting looks of knowing, spying a patch of bright blue on a grey day, dancing in the rain, hugging a friend. The perfect lives in the imperfect, in