Purpose & Vision
Resources to help you get clarity of purpose and a create a compelling vision.
A clear purpose and vision gives you a filter to assess and prioritise options and makes decisions easier. A meaningful driving “why” will help you persevere as you face challenges.
Success will make us happy. Right?
Success will make us happy… right? Explore why purpose and happiness are things we create and keep creating, and how small actions can make a big difference.
Build the Habits for Regenerative Momentum & Success with Ben Pecotich – BFGN Webinar #13
This webinar will help you start the year with optimism backed by intent and direction… and build the habits for regenerative momentum and success.
Share Your Story
Sharing your story is an important part of any change journey. A good story will resonate with your audience, engage their curiosity, and generate conversation. What’s your story?
AICD Essential Director Update 2024
The AICD Essential Director Update 2024 with a strong focus on genAI, cybersecurity, mandatory climate reporting, company culture, and NFP financial resilience.
See Your Future… Make It Happen
When we’re working on complex problems there are a lot of unknowns and uncertainty. We need just enough structure to navigate ambiguity and sustain momentum without it being rigid and getting in the way of progress. Freedom through structure.
Dynamic4 2024 Strategy
Dynamic4’s strategy exists within the context of our purpose, vision, and theory of change – it describes our theory on where we’ll play, how we’ll win, what we need to win. For us, winning doesn’t mean competing with or beating others. We’re here to collaborate and win together.
Your Purpose
Clarity of purpose makes decisions easier. It gives us a clear filter to assess and prioritise options. Let’s explore this at a personal and organisational level.
SydDT #97: Designer: Lost & Found with Nirish Shakya
Nirish Shakya visited from London
and shared some of what he’s learnt from interviewing 50+ designers, leaders, and changemakers about self-awareness, creative confidence, and meaning on his Design Feeling podcast… and a lot of reflections on his own journey and practice at Sydney Design Thinking #97.
AICD Essential Director Update 2023
The AICD Essential Director Update 2023 with a strong focus on Company Climate Policy & Reporting, Psychosocial Risks, and Stakeholder Engagement.
SydDT #86: World Interaction Design Day 2023: Ethics, Equity, +Responsibility
Happy World Interaction Design Day! The theme this year is Ethics, Equity, +Responsibility. Another Sydney Design Thinking in collaboration with IxDA Sydney. I got to talk about one of my favourite things: Regenerative Design & Innovation… for Happier Communities. How do we design for regeneration, be financially successful, and increase our wellbeing while we do it?
Regenerative Design & Innovation… for Happier Communities – UXA 2023
Let’s collaborate to solve problems that matter for our teams, customers, and life on our planet – with regenerative business models, products, and services that are financially successful and increase our wellbeing while we do it.
Earth Day 2023. Invest In Our Planet
Earth Day 2023. Invest In Our Planet. We all have need to do our part… governments, institutions, businesses, and citizens. Everyone accounted for, everyone accountable. #BusinessForClimateJustice
SydDT #77: Designing for Inclusion with Kate Linton & Agnes Abelsen
A great to start to 2023 with Sydney Design Thinking #77. Kate Linton shared insights designing for increased inclusivity and accessibility with Thoughtworks’ new brand identity. Agnes Abelsen had a fireside chat with Ben Pecotich and shared her lessons starting Travengers to help young people who are neurodivergent connect through travel experiences and social events.
SECNA Meetup #3: Demystifying Business for Good
Plenty of great energy and conversation in the room as we explored the theme of demystifying business for good – in collaboration with our friends at B Corp and Fair Trade Association of ANZ – for NSW Small Business Month at SECNA Meetup #3.
SydDT #74: Design Thinking in Social Enterprise Startups
Naomi Tarszisz (Founder & CEO of rePlated), Andrew Akib (Co-founder & CEO of Maslow), and Frances Atkins (Co-founder & Director of givvable) shared a bit about their social enterprise startup journeys with key insights and lessons at Sydney Design Thinking #74.
SECNA Meetup #1: Celebrating Friendship Month
The first of our monthly SECNA meetups to celebrate Friendship Month. Marjorie Tenchavez from Welcome Merchant and Abbey Pantano from Seed Spaces kicked things off.
Design Feeling Podcast – Solving Problems That Matter
In June 2022 I had the pleasure of being a guest on Nirish Shakya’s Design Feeling podcast. We spoke about happiness habits, design frameworks for creating our purpose and happiness… and solving problems that matter.
SydDT #71: Plastic Free July
Nimmity Zappert from All of the Good Things and Elizabeth McClean from DJAMU shared their social enterprise startup journeys focused on reducing plastic waste and helping create great outcomes for people and communities at Sydney Design Thinking #71.
Perspective & Context. Dynamic4: The 20th Year
Perspective & Context is the third of Dynamic4’s core values and guiding principles. An active reminder to be mindful of how we look at and see things, and the meaning we make – all through the lens of our purpose.
Positive Impact. Dynamic4: The 20th Year
Positive Impact is one of Dynamic4’s core values and guiding principles. Our first impact report outlines what this looks like in practice.
People First. Dynamic4: The 20th Year
When I wrote out Dynamic4’s values over a decade ago – which I frame as our guiding principles – People First was number one. This is the driving principle and core approach to everything we do.
Purpose & Happiness. Dynamic4: The 20th Year
Purpose and happiness. A couple of simple words that seem to have taken on the burden of so many connotations… At Dynamic4, the core of our purpose is to help create the conditions for happier people and communities. I guess I better explain myself.
Market Signals for More Ethical & Sustainable Business
I often talk about what running a good business means now. Operating ethically and sustainably is the minimum baseline and increasingly the expectation is that businesses include a clear social and environmental purpose – and ideally embed impact in their business model. Why?