Communicate with kindness and inclusion

We’ve permanently rolled out a four-day workweek at Minerva Strategies! As described in a previous blog post, we dedicated the first half of the year to a pilot phase where we explored a four-day week and our strategies for testing it with our team, assessing the impact on our clients, and thinking through whether this…

Any consultant knows that good client relationships can be the difference between loving our work or wanting to take a permanent vacation. When a relationship isn’t working how we hoped it would, it’s easy to point the finger—the client may think “the consultant doesn’t understand us” while the consultant complains “the client isn’t giving us…

One thing we can likely agree on about the last few years is they haven’t been predictable. Many people experienced job loss, burnout, or a transition to work-from-home that blurred the lines between work and home. A global pandemic overwhelmed our medical system, heightened feelings of fear and isolation, and changed our ways of being.…

“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.” – Toni Morrison We often don’t think about how powerful our words are—they create worlds and experiences for everyone around us. Living in a country colonized by oppressors, we have been conditioned to casually…

Minerva Strategies started as just me, at my kitchen table, with an idea. It wasn’t revolutionary, but it felt right: Let’s build a special kind of agency that brings together great, smart people to do great, smart work for great, smart clients. And let’s make it all about creating positive impact in the world. That’s…

Global health folks use a lot of big numbers. And why wouldn’t they? The globe is a big place with lots of people. To measure progress in population health, we need to track outcomes at the population level.   But personally, I find it hard to relate to big numbers. When I read a news article…