Soft Skills Are Your Superpower
All over the world, people, companies, schools and governments are waking up to the fact that Soft Skills matter. This is revolutionary. For the past 400 years since the beginning of The Enlightenment, everyone has thought that the only thing that was important was Hard Skills — science, engineering, technology, mathematics, business, finance. Everything was […]
Shadow-work: integrity for activists
I spent many years in my 20s as an environmental activist. That included closing down roads in London to throw a big street party, setting up camp in the woods to prevent a road being built through them and being politically active in the Green Party. They were years full of excitement, camaraderie and fun. […]
Our Sri Lanka Story: Chapter One
It has been quite a whirlwind in Sri Lanka for the past couple of months and it’s not even monsoon season! Ubiquity has just entered the local market and is making quite the splash. We are partnering with a number of key education service providers and social service organizations to educate, inspire and galvanize changemakers […]
Mindfulness, a Key to Insight and Impact
At Ubiquity, students get one third of their study points for self mastery. In this previous blog you can read more generally about our self-mastery program. In my experience, a foundation for self-mastery is mindfulness. Mindfulness has become a bit of a trend recently, but what does it really mean? Mindfulness is quite simply about […]
Why would a university include self-mastery?
At Ubiquity University students get one third of their credit for Self-Mastery (the other two thirds are divided between knowledge and Impact projects). Why do we do this and how do we do this? Why would a university include self-mastery? Ubiquity is designed to equip you with the qualities and competencies you need to make […]
The Beginning of the End of Donald Trump
This week saw the conviction of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort on five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud, and one count of failure to disclose a foreign bank account. Simultaneously,Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen pled guilty to five counts of tax evasion, one count of making a false statement to […]
Innovate the Lean Way
Elizabeth Weaver Engel, M.A., CAE, is CEO and Chief Strategist at Spark Consulting LLC. For more than twenty years, Elizabeth has helped associations grow in membership, marketing, communications, public presence, and especially revenue, which is what Spark is all about. She speaks and writes frequently on a variety of topics in association management. When she’s not […]
High Tech/High Touch
In a world of smartphones, computers, social media and the internet, the question of how we humans understand our relationship with technology has become paramount. Studies show that too much technology is debilitating on human brain function, stifles emotions, affects our memories, and leads to all sorts of antisocial behavior. Addictions to various forms of […]
Faculty Spotlight: Lowell Aplebaum, MA, CAE – Leading in Disrupted Times
What is your passion in life and what drives you? Simply put, doing what is within my ability to make the world a better place. I think we all have a responsibility to ourselves, to each other, to our communities, to society, and to the Earth to do what we can to make this world […]
Sri Lanka: Gateway to Asia
Raji Jayasinghe, our VP for Asia and Press Officer, and Dilini Gunasekera, our Country Director for Sri Lanka, and I just spent two weeks in Sri Lanka developing a range of partnerships that are positioning Ubiquity to provide high quality education for Sri Lanka and the Asian market. This is an extremely exciting opportunity for […]