In her own words 
PRESSURE POINTS
To stand in a security line in any airport across the globe, between the period of December 16th and December 24th, is to feel the peak of pressure of a year gone by. Exponentially more people, going more places, in a rush, with stuff in tow, and little...
LOVE IT. HATE IT. JUST PLEASE DO SOMETHING.
It has been called a stream of unflattering adjectives - "offensive", "clumsy", "patronising", "self-indulgent", "idiotic". It has been called "un-African" and "inaccurate". What it has not been called, once, is "ineffective". Whatever Band Aid 30 is being...
AS ONE STAR FALLS, ANOTHER RISES
Slowly, methodically, thoughtfully, she reads out, word by word, punctuation by punctuation, her analysis of the past seven months. Without pressure or prejudice, she takes her time to make certain her thought process, her reason for awaited final words, are...
EVERYONE IS SOMEONE
“Welcome to ____, Helen Mirren.” Those were the words making their way across the radio to thousands of listeners across the city early one morning while they quietly made their way to work. Words meant to fill listeners with a sense of pride and curiosity...
A WORLD OF CHOICES FOR SOUND, AND SILENCE
Every day for the past several weeks, the headlines have been beyond fiction. Wars flare up despite the 100th anniversary of WWI urging us to never forget the costs of war, aircraft fall from the sky victims of wrong place/wrong time at a time when even air air...
KEEPING THE DRAMA ON THE PITCH
The 2014 FIFA World Cup (FWC) is now past. The global grip of the Games is released! In classic World Cup style, the world's top tier competition of the beautiful game brought player and fan energy to a fever pitch, with seconds becoming the turning points...
BEING THERE AFTER MOTHER NATURE MOVES ON
When Mother Nature is in a bad mood, nothing is sacred, no one is safe. And nowhere is spared. With unnatural strength and speed, her fury is unleashed, turning homes into havoc, complete communities into kindling, even faith into questioning. It happens over...
ONE MONTH MARKING TWO 20YR MILESTONES
This April, two different nations once written off as risks, and with reputations for one single thing - heartbreaking, lawbreaking acts to ones own - marked two decades of progress, unity and hope in a way that can only be described by one word: 'heroic'....
MH 370 – A NEW CODE FOR GLOBAL COOPERATION
MH 370 Less than three weeks ago, it was a flight code with top of mind awareness for only a small population of mostly airline, airport and air traffic control professionals. Today, and forever in the history books of our times, it represents a globally...
UNLOCKING THE SPIRIT OF THE MOMENT, SOONER
It happens almost every time. Until the last days of the countdown, the air and airwaves are filled with questions. Sochi was no exception. Even into the single-digit countdown to the commencement of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games, more bets were on failure than...